The Democrats just don't get it. The old ways didn't work and they're not going to start working, ever. It's way past time to get rid of your geriatric leadership, our democracy is slipping away.
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Babyboomers will literally die before acknowledging they've ever done anything wrong.
It's sad to say, but I honestly think the vaccines came out too soon. If the virus has another 6 months to a year to actually scare/eliminate some of the older people in Congress we wouldn't be in this mess. A literal miracle of science allowed people to engage in mass denialism so great that a significant portion of the population literally won't acknowledge millions of people died.
We saved a bunch of geriatric fucks just to allow them to ruin lives of their grandchildren.
I don't think this is a generational issue anymore, personally.
Donald being able to diversify and expand his coalition tells me that, whether it's Fox News or TikTok, digital radicalization is working across multiple generational boundaries in order to produce the desired result for extremists. (Dems choices to leave people in poverty when they had power figures into this as well, but not as much as people being able to find radicalizing content in their pocket every moment of every day.)
I agree in part, but I also think that the adoption of thirdway politics by the boomers led to the material conditions that is the real reason why so many young people are so susceptible to radicalization.
If younger people were granted the educations and careers that were offered to older generations, they're wouldn't really be a reason for them to need to find a scapegoat for all their problems.
Those are good points. Boomers have 100% created the conditions for widespread radicalization, and continue to do so by supporting upward wealth transfer policies.
Wrong. Baby boomers will never die.
You don't get it. This is what Democrats want.
Felt like this needed to be shared since so many in this sub-lemmy have gaslit themselves into thinking that the Democratic Party can be reformed from within.
Blood will likely shift this equation. We're all just waiting on the news. Waiting for the rich to realize they're not safe.
Waiting for the rich to realize they’re not safe
The rich are well aware they aren't safe. But the average protestor is still chanting about "peaceful protest," and of course every major social-media outlet bans any deviation from that mantra. Until the status quo cannot be maintained, I don't think the rich as a class have anything to worry about.
No. I know plenty who think they are. Mostly republicans but many white democrats don't seem to understand yet either. A single Luigi wasn't enough. We need Mario and the gang. Kids shot on international news. Hungry people with nothing to lose. That's when change comes
While it is true that visible billionaires like Elon, or Peter Thiel, or Bezos think they are immune to the society that enables them, it's not just the Elon's of the world that control everything. If Elon/Bezos/Gates/Zuckerberg were assassinated, nothing changes. There are more Billionaires you haven't heard about. The share-holders of railroads and defense industries, energy sector magnates, secretive CEOs of private holding companies you've never heard of are their pawns, the entrenched rich. The ones that fund K-Street in the US. The ones that ensure the only viable politicians support Israel.
It's families with generational wealth that are so sheltered they don't participate in the same society as us. These are the people who know they wouldn't be safe if anyone knew who they were, and they have learned generational lessons. They are still just humans, but until the legal, financial, and governmental structures they've assembled over the last few centuries are dismantled, nothing can be improved for the rest of us.
Wouldn't need to take out many for the rest to go to ground. They aren't all stupid. All the public Nazis plus a few dozen of the more private ones. Wouln't even be hard. They congregate at a handful of country clubs and Warren Buffet's house.
The democrats see effective leadership as a threat
Welp. Here comes the blood stained revolution. The only dem who fully understands now is Padilla.
And either way they get what they want, A culling of the populous and the rich still don't die.
My generation Gen X gave us trump this time so we're likely responsible for this.
He needs to just start a podcast.