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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 11 points 1 hour ago

Democrats about to return to their anti-socialist roots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudsill_theory

The Mudsill theory is a proposition that there must be, and always has been, a lower class or underclass for the upper classes and the rest of society to rest upon.

The theory was first articulated by James H. Hammond, a Democratic United States senator from South Carolina and a wealthy Southern plantation owner, in a speech on March 4, 1858. Hammond argued that every society must find a class of people to do menial labor, whether called slaves or not, and that assigning that status on a racial basis followed natural law, while the Northern United States' social class of white wage laborers presented a revolutionary threat.

[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 15 points 3 hours ago

i-cant

American politics is so fucking stupid

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 hours ago

mask off moment

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 14 points 3 hours ago

“The left is bad because democrats are the party of the KKK!”

“I liked you democrats better when you were right wing!”

[–] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 4 hours ago
[–] uSSRI@hexbear.net 14 points 4 hours ago

David Brooks sez: jagoff

Now make a whole career off of it

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 13 points 4 hours ago

Did I miss an article before this one? Democrats having values is a good punchline, it makes me feel like I missed the set up.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 37 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

This will hurt your cause

-Man who hates you and your cause.

David Brooks is a Republican. He doesn't like Democrats. He wants Democrats to lose. He's not presenting some deeper analysis of the Democratic role of preventing true reform and redirecting left wing fervor. He just wants them to lose. All his pretenses of disliking Trump aside.

[–] mayakovsky@hexbear.net 27 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 9 points 4 hours ago

My thoughts exactly

[–] goferking0 14 points 5 hours ago

When were the dems great? FDR when they were doing anything they could to stop revolution?

JFK who got assassinated? RFK who got assassinated?

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 14 points 5 hours ago

we may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 hours ago

If the democrats became great, then why are we now in the "DSA era?" People just randomly changing their views for no reason?

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 16 points 5 hours ago

Doc says if I read too many David Brooks empire apologia I die

[–] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 22 points 6 hours ago

You know the purpose of the democrats is to be the """"nice""" face of American capital at this point and nothing else because anybody who knows anything about electoral strategy from the last few decades knows this strategy doesn't win but they keep fucking doing it.

I really hope Trump goes for a term 3. It could potentially implode the republican party and put the Democrats in an awful position if they don't put their foot down fast enough while the SocDems agitate like motherfuckers.

Pure speculation tho. Any hope of the US collapsing and losing its ability to start wars as it pleases and kill us all with climate change is a hope I have though. From there I'll just have to be strong for my comrades and community to help them pull through the mess. The rest of the world shouldn't have to end.

(Idk why this post made me launch into that rant 🤷🤷🤷.)

[–] Trioxin@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

liberals need to remember their history

Well, here's something to jog their memory:

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 12 points 4 hours ago

Main ideology: radicalism

Political position: Centre

The radical centrist party is real

[–] Feed_el_Castro@hexbear.net 36 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

It’s only a slight exaggeration to say the Biden administration was a dozen aging moderates trying to manage a staff of 4,000 young progressives.

Democracy™

[...] Apparently, almost half of the members of the DSA’s leadership body identifies as Communist. The party is in alliance with the most brutal left-wing authoritarians from around the world, including in Cuba and Venezuela. Its New York chapter’s response to the October 7 mass murder and massremoved of Israeli civilians was to blame Israel for provoking the attacks.

Liberal values: mass murder through sanctions and genocide through sanctions AND bombs

[...] But other mainstream Democratic concerns seem to be moral. Something in the liberal heart recoils in the face of righteous ruthlessness.

Hitler particles

Everyone remembers the careers that were destroyed and the voices that were silenced by hard-core progressives in the peak woke era.

You're right. The issue was the woke mob as MAGA says, not the actual sex pests and pieces of shit who got "silenced" (meaning criticised on Twitter)

[...] Napoleon was onto something

Oh boy

In politics as in warfare, the moral advantage is to the material as three is to one. Right now, all of the passion is on the left. Progressives are showing once again that so long as your followers are fervently committed, it doesn’t take many people to commandeer a movement.

Hell yeah, 1 commie counts as 1000 libs

So far, no mainstream Democratic politician has seemed willing to stir up the hornet’s nest by taking on the progressive brigades.

Democracy™

The Democratic establishment risks responding to incipient left-wing authoritarianism

They said the word! They said the word!! Authoritarianism is when checks notes you win the elections to New York City mayor. Oh, and you're "nonwhite".

[...] To encourage my Democratic friends, I would remind them of this fact: The Democratic Party became great not while pushing against the right. It became great while pushing against the left. Democrats can argue against Republicans in their sleep. They have a comfortable set of moves they can go to: trickle-down economics, tax cuts for the rich. But mainstream Democrats have to think hard when arguing against the left. They have to toughen up. They have to clearly define what they believe and what they do not believe. They have to rally grassroots supporters willing to fight alongside them. They have to come up with some new agenda to compete with the get-everything-for-free agenda that the left is now offering.

"We were very comfortable in the two-bourgeois-party system and those pesky leftists are making us THINK!"

This kind of struggle has happened before—and it was the making of the modern Democratic Party. In the late 1940s, World War II had just ended, and the Soviets were in the process of brutally subjugating Eastern Europe, thus moving from an uneasy U.S. ally to an aggressive U.S. foe. People were becoming aware of the tens of millions of victims who had been murdered by communist regimes over the previous decades.

You heard it fellas, communist regimes up to the late 1940s (historically, only 1: the USSR) murdered tens of millions of people.

Soviet socialism in Russia was looking more and more like National Socialism in Germany

Healthcare, education, housing, work and pensions = colonialism and genocide

I refuse to continue reading forward. Good luck to whoever pursues consuming this trash. Here's an archive link

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Everyone remembers the careers that were destroyed and the voices that were silenced by hard-core progressives in the peak woke era.

Name three examples that did not include SA

[–] Aradino@hexbear.net 4 points 54 minutes ago

Straight up admitting that they killed MeToo

[–] darkcalling@hexbear.net 18 points 6 hours ago
[...] Apparently, almost half of the members of the DSA’s leadership body identifies as Communist. The party is in alliance with the most brutal left-wing authoritarians from around the world, including in Cuba and Venezuela. Its New York chapter’s response to the October 7 mass murder and massremoved of Israeli civilians was to blame Israel for provoking the attacks.

Liberal values: mass murder through sanctions and genocide through sanctions AND bombs

Notice them repeating the debunked lie of sexual assault on October 7th, just casually continuing to will it into existence. Same as all other atrocity propaganda: you just keep repeating it so over the years you have this consensus you've silently built that it-is-known

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 18 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

But at least the battle lines are clear. Every Democrat is going to have to ask themselves: Do I support the moral realism of the mainstream Democrats, with their pragmatic reformist temper, or do I support the progressives, with their utopian belief in human perfectibility and their willingness to concentrate power in order to take aggressive action on behalf of social justice?

pooh-wtf

I get that we’re living in an age of rising authoritarianism, but I was kind of hoping that the Democratic Party would resist the tendency.

wonder-who-thats-for

[–] cornishon@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 minutes ago* (last edited 9 minutes ago)

But at least the battle lines are clear. Every Democrat is going to have to ask themselves: Do I support the moral realism of the mainstream Democrats, with their pragmatic reformist temper, or do I support the progressives, with their utopian belief in human perfectibility and their willingness to concentrate power in order to take aggressive action on behalf of social justice?

The funniest shit is that the DSA, the boogeyman of the article, actually chooses option 1 (pragmatic reformism) too.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

The second option. Even the way he says it still makes it seem cooler. The 'reformist temper' got us here. People willing to concentrate power in order to eradicate social justice are gonna need to be net with equal strength. He made up the whole utopian idea of human perfectibility, that's more the ubermensch guys and tech weirdos who wanna turn their brains into computers powered by orphan blood so they can pretend that counts as immortality. I'm pretty sure we just want innocentpeople to not be killed and for those of us who do the work to get what's ours. That's quite a far leap from whatever anyone would imagine as perfection. I hope he turns into a bug like poor Franz Kafka and gets eaten by a different bug

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 45 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Pictured: Greatness

Strom Thurmond was officially a member of the Democratic Party in the Senate until 1964, when he joined the Republican Party. He had earlier run for president in 1948 as the Dixiecrat candidate in opposition to Democratic president Harry S. Truman, receiving over a million votes and winning four states.

A staunch opponent of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s, Thurmond completed the longest single-person Senate filibuster, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 34 points 7 hours ago

You won't be surprised at who gave the eulogy at Strom Thurmond's funeral

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/joebidenstromthurmondeulogy.htm

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 54 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Beautiful symbolism, a notoriously stubborn and cantankerous animal violently reacting to an offer of peace and unity

[–] Athena5898@hexbear.net 21 points 7 hours ago

You know there is something very funny about turning down a offered rose. Tale as old as time if you will.

To bad the DSA isn't on par. But the idea is funny.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 22 points 7 hours ago

Democrats continue to offer nothing and continue to lose ground to groups offering something, wow, how will they fight back?

[–] btbt@hexbear.net 26 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

He and I have very different definitions of great

Come to think of it he’d probably say this happened because kopmala was too far left lmao

[–] beanlover@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago

Pretty much what I was thinking... wow so "great"

[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 18 points 7 hours ago

this dipshit was a conservative until trump was elected

They gotta fight! For their right! TO PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART Palestinians from their limbs. Fuck the Dems

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 45 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 31 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The cheerleader for the Iraq War, that David Brooks?

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 22 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Former NY Times token conservative opinion columnist. Now downgraded to Atlantic writer (below NY Post)

(Iraq war cheerleader doesn't narrow it down)

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 2 points 3 hours ago

Yeah that's him.

[–] context@hexbear.net 11 points 5 hours ago

(Iraq war cheerleader doesn't narrow it down)

it does if we're talking specifically about people named david brooks

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 44 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What are those values, exactly? Genocide and murder? Expanding global poverty and suffering? Accomplishing absolutely nothing of positive systemic value?

Why is anyone proud of that?

[–] dadarobot@lemmy.ml 25 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

personal enrichment, shareholders, and status quo.

[–] PraiseCorn@hexbear.net 30 points 8 hours ago
[–] red_giant@hexbear.net 25 points 8 hours ago

You mean like when they were the party of slavers, plantations, and segregationists?

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 12 points 7 hours ago

Are they talking about when Democrats were pro slavery??

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 16 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Make Democrats Great Again tiedrich