Dem's aren't even putting in the minimum effort into pretending to be an opposition party.

She seems to have lost worse than Hillary...

The unfalsifiable orthodoxy. Moving to the far-right and appealing to moderate Republicans win elections. If a Democrat wins, it proves that this works, if a Democrat loses, they just hadn't moved far-right enough.

Breaking: Democrats might still be electable in the future, through no virtue of their own!

It is not the job of the party to appeal to the people. But the job of the people to subjugate themselves to the party.

I wonder what would happen if Harris wanted to win against Trump more than she wanted to support genocide?

The Democrats never actually opposed fascism, they just invoked it because they knew it was unpopular. The problem of the Democrats is that you can't constantly run on things you have no intention of following through on, without having voters stop believing you eventually.

That is their entire point. Two party system means that they can take up all space for opposition to Republicans while making their policies bipartisan.

The Democratic party is entirely built to fight any leftward movement, it isn't just that the progressives didn't try. They have been trying for 80 years. It is that the entire party is structured and designed to fight that. That is the actual reason Trump could come from the outside and completely reshape the Republicans, but the Dems can form rank and resist Bernie and the progressives.

The Democrats have shown overwhelmingly and repeatedly that they would rather lose to Republicans than move at all to the left.

I used to think Elon Musk was the Henry Ford of our generation (Car Maker, Industrialist), but then I found out that he was the Henry Ford of our generation (Anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist, Nazi supporter).

They should have been Rage For The Machine!

If you believe in great man theory™ and think that all political developments happen because one person can magically steer entire countries and the world, in geo-political terms, or idealists in thinking that if you have the correct ideas, you can magically steer the entire rest of the world to whatever you think, by having the correct thoughts. Then your theories of political developments are non-materialist, like this comment is objecting to. The system sets the conditions of who is going to be empowered or rewarded for their actions and positions.

“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.” - Mark Twain

Democrats

Not opposing Trump, because unlike the last 40 years, we learn that a party has to have a super-majority in a government body to stop the opposing party from doing everything they want all the time.

How could non-voters do this.

Yeah, I think it is still demographically true that an Argentinian with a German last name is more likely to be a German Jew than a Nazi that came there through the Rat Lines. The reason Nazis went there in the first place is due to the large amount of German immigration previously, and the focus on Argentinian Nazis is part of the US deflection of how much Nazis the US took in for Operation Paperclip, Nazis doing medical experiments under Mengele, and SS members that started working for the CIA.

These god-damn violent tankies. Vietnam should have just fined her a much smaller amount than the corrupt practices made them, like how the West handles corrupt oligarchs.

Well, Schumer and Jeffries are refusing to reduce ICE funding or oppose them, so we are still in the point that the Dems support everything but would like a bit more politeness and layers of obfuscation, rather than ICE not killing people in the streets and being the American Gestapo.

I don't have a list of specific instances on hand. But he was kind of a contrarian voice for a while that I listened to over a decade ago, but in 2016 went in the more anti-woke (anti-CRT in terms of the time) and very reactionary culture war turn.

And critically, not just since Trump. As soon as the ink dried on the Nazi surrender, the US and OSS/CIA armed and funded every fascist they could find since fascists are the most dedicated anti-communists.

America is a one party state. But, in typical American extravagance, they have two of them.

We are seeing the capitalist West's descent into fascism. The direct proof of the 1930's maxim, "fascism is capitalism in decay" between the AFD, Orban, Erdogan, Starmer being basically indistinguishable from a Tory, Macron pulling a Hindenburg by using the presidential power to appoint a prime minister that will unify the center-right liberals with the far-right to prevent the left from having any power in government, and Meloni being an acceptable, reasonable western leader because she follows through with whatever US foreign policy is on offer. We are seeing a direct breakdown because of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall (law of diminishing returns, applied to profit, if you are a child that believes in neoclassical economics). So profit has to be sought out by purely national protectionism and reshoring since there is not a growing pie, but you just have to claim a greater slice of the pie. Capitalism on any sufficient timescale is Fascism, the destruction of WW2 and the Marshall Plan reset this "diminishing return on profitability" so that we are reaching the same state of the 1920s. But since there isn't a strong socialist movement we have to modify Gramsci's assessment. "The old world is dying, a new one is completely stillborn, now and forever is the time of monsters"

Yeah, capitalist Britain, France, and America were terrible in their use of famines and genocides. The problem with capitalism is that eventually you run out of other people's land and food.