It’s ironic because he killed any hope we had left in electoral politics. First in 2008 with his JP Morgan cabinet, and then in 2020 by telling everyone to rally around the man with Parkinson’s dementia to stop the socdem.
I’ll always be annoyed with myself that I didn’t become a leftist in the early 1990s after I read Manufacturing Consent. I don’t know how to describe it other than to say I had “two party” brain. I simply couldn’t expand my thinking to understand that’s a stupid way of looking at the world and idiotic mental trap.
And by ~2010 I again should have made a left turn because of how Obama expanded Dubya’s national security state apparatus. Also - for the first time I saw how shitty Obama and the dems were on handling insane levels of white collar crime. In the aftermath of the economic crisis not a single fucking bankster went on trial (on a city or state or federal level) for their crimes. Not a single one. And libs still say “no one is above the law”.
And I kept thinking voting democrat would work out somehow. Even then I still had “two party” brain. It’s pretty funny to me it took Trump of all people to finally make me realize how garbage the dems were, always have been, and always will be.
2020 was what sealed it for me. I used to think everything the Democrats was good until 2016, when I started to learn the difference between libs and social democrats. It was then that when I learned that good left politics was supposed to get rid of capitalism and have democracy start from the bottom at the workplace that I realized the whole system was stupid, with Bernie being the last nail.
I also really hate Obama for perverting…
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It’s ironic because he killed any hope we had left in electoral politics. First in 2008 with his JP Morgan cabinet, and then in 2020 by telling everyone to rally around the man with Parkinson’s dementia to stop the socdem.
I’ll always be annoyed with myself that I didn’t become a leftist in the early 1990s after I read Manufacturing Consent. I don’t know how to describe it other than to say I had “two party” brain. I simply couldn’t expand my thinking to understand that’s a stupid way of looking at the world and idiotic mental trap.
And by ~2010 I again should have made a left turn because of how Obama expanded Dubya’s national security state apparatus. Also - for the first time I saw how shitty Obama and the dems were on handling insane levels of white collar crime. In the aftermath of the economic crisis not a single fucking bankster went on trial (on a city or state or federal level) for their crimes. Not a single one. And libs still say “no one is above the law”.
And I kept thinking voting democrat would work out somehow. Even then I still had “two party” brain. It’s pretty funny to me it took Trump of all people to finally make me realize how garbage the dems were, always have been, and always will be.
2020 was what sealed it for me. I used to think everything the Democrats was good until 2016, when I started to learn the difference between libs and social democrats. It was then that when I learned that good left politics was supposed to get rid of capitalism and have democracy start from the bottom at the workplace that I realized the whole system was stupid, with Bernie being the last nail.