Sen. Bernie Sanders delivered an impassioned floor speech decrying “America’s dangerous movement toward oligarchy, authoritarianism, and kleptocracy.”
Seeing how these comments treat Sanders is literally why we have the issues we have
You’re all soggy limp critical weiners armchair activists and keyboard warriors.
Criticizing those trying is the liberal way I guess.
Words are empty, so get out of here with that “trying” bullshit
Words are empty? Absolutely clueless. Devolving into fools and morons.
If Americans listened to Sanders, maybe they would still have a democracy.
But, judging by their vote, they don’t want to anyway. The millions and millions of future or temporarily embarrassed billionaires in the US need to protect their interests.
First, this is better than most of the other Democrats and messaging IS important. Calling it out and giving people terms does have some benefits.
But we desperately need leaders, not just analysis and condemnation. Organize marches. He’s got the sway to get people somewhere on a specific day, and the country is primed for action more than any other time. So far the only things Trump has really shown weakness on have been the things that make rich people concerned (federal funding halt, trade wars). Make them worried that the other stuff will also be economically disruptive. Make there be consequences to the chaos so maybe they’ll try to get him to pump the breaks.
Yes, however at the moment it’s such an exhausting thought to even say why bother? We’re not even a month into the current regime and people where so concerned with letting someone else take a turn at supporting Israel that we couldn’t collectively get our asses in gear to prevent this from happening just a few months ago. We had the chance with an actual vote then to say this shouldn’t happen, and it was well known exactly this was the plan, what difference does it make to yell at them now?
Because the fight is never over, and it’s more important now than ever, and we need these people to lead and influence politics rather than just sit back and hope that a movement spontaneously erupts to do their job for them. And if they can’t, we need them gone so someone else can rise up who can meet the moment.
Boring
The time for this shit was 10 years ago. He should have split the Dems. Instead he chose to protect himself and his own career.
Now we are so far in the zone it’s hopeless
I wish Sanders and AOC would take a more concrete approach to tackling this issue. Talk is cheap, now more than ever. Most Americans who are aware of the coup just need a rallying call.
They can’t legally say what needs to be done. Trump, and his entire regime, hold the monopoly on violence. They can commit torture, murder, rape, war, and genocide all they desire. Anti-fascists have to use the rule of law that doesn’t exist.
100% agree we have an unfair fight with an opponent who doesn’t play by the rules.
It’s their job to speak for the masses, that’s the point of being elected in a democratic authority. If only hushed whispers are spoken in a room full of aggressive baboons, who is going to hear that voice of reason? Law follows precedence and there is no precedence for a coup of the US American government, so what rule of law are they exactly following? The status quo? We need to get uncomfortable, only then will things change.
“Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.” ~ William Godwin.
US famously not a kleptocratic cruel oligarchy in uh… 1776. no. it’s only going to become one now!
dangerous movement toward
Zeno’s paradox, but the destination is fascism
No it’s okay, Goku called him to that alternate timeline and he destroyed it, and there’s two Zenos now
If only there was some sort of unusually popular politician in an upstart position who could have done something substantial to fight against this problem outright, let’s say perhaps 5-10 years ago.
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Which is why I’m announcing my support for Hillary Clinton in the next election
Too bad the guy you endorses didn’t fix any of that.
Fuck Bernie
‘Old man yells at cloud’.
Quit yelling at me, old man
Bernie Sanders warns: sky blue, water wet
