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A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Seven Hundred Bee posted:

The Proud Boys are not a "gang", they a white nationalist Neo-Nazi terrorist group.

Yeah only non-whites have gangs, silly billy!

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A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Space Gopher posted:

The structure of American politics creates two major parties that hold essentially all national political power between them. It's theoretically possible for a party to collapse completely and be replaced (like what happened to the Whigs), but it's extremely difficult and rare. Meanwhile, we've seen a major political party taken over by an internal movement within just the past decade The racist/nativist wing of the Republicans went from subordinate to the business interests, to vice versa, over the course of the Obama administration. That's why Trump is president instead of Jeb!

It's possible to use the same mechanism for positive leftist change in the Democratic party. And, it's much more likely to be effective than voting for a third party that can't hope to hold power at the executive level without winning a majority across the majority of electoral votes.

If you really want to break the cycle of running towards the center, look at the Tea Party, and emulate what they did for better ends.

The Tea Party benefitted from oligarchs funding a massively coordinated effort, and the Republican party structure actually honoring straight-up popular votes in their primaries. It's a major reason why Democrats have doubled and tripled down on byzantine vote-obfuscating mechanisms straight out of the Boss Tweed era.

There will be no "leftist Tea Party" and you cannot simply vote your way out of the elimination of the means by which your vote has any significance.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

I gotta say it truly exceeds expectations that when reaching to identify any white people as gangsters, the guy calling everyone else Nazis dug deep and came up with a pan-racial group of rap fans

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