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Florida Schools Will Teach How Slavery Brought ‘Personal Benefit’ to Black People
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Because despite appearances that are put on, the main bulk of republicans and democrats are really not very far apart. A show is created around culture war which is really not particularly cared about by either of them while the core interests that they both share - exploiting the people and maintaining the class war in favour of the bankers, hedgefunds and financial elite - are ultimately kept secure.
Until the well-meaning liberals that continually give the benefit of the doubt to democrats wise up to this and radicalise into something further left the lack of opposition to the right will continue. Meanwhile the few dedicated and ideologically motivated actual-fascists that do get power, such as in Florida, will get to wield that power however the fuck they want as long as it isn't affecting the economic interests of the previously mentioned groups belonging to the wealthy ruling class.
An enormous amount of power exists to prevent or oppose all the things that have been happening lately. The issue is ultimately an unwillingness to do it.
This is nonsense. There's a massive difference between Republicans and Democrats.
The main issue is that Republicans are, more often than not, pieces of shit who never argue in good faith, while Democrats try to act with the higher morale ground, when they really should be pushing harder against the Republican bullshit.
Just look at their goals and agendas. What do Republicans even stand for besides bending over for money and being against "woke" culture? Sure, there are Democrats who are money whores too, but compare the two groups overall.
As someone that votes left, your comment still reads like someone that has faith in their representatives.
Are republicans trash? Yes.
But don’t, for a second, believe democrats are “of a higher moral ground”. They are human, and they are therefore just as capable of being shitbags as anyone else.
Not trying to be pessimistic, just realistic: 99% of these people are monsters that don’t give a shit if you live or die.
This right here is the problem. Democrats let republicans do their thing. In other words, they're complicit. That's why people point out they're really not all that different. Yes, there are differences and 10 times out of 10 I will vote for them over republicans, but I won't fool myself into thinking it'll actually make a significant change. At best I can expect a pause in the republican freight train of bullshit.