• davepleasebehave@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    So does the republican party have a load of sleeper agents in the democratic party that it activates when needed?

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        49 minutes ago

        Yes. The original meaning of left wing and right wing were the radical and conservative wings of the French parliament; the former being for liberalism, the later for monarchism. It has since kept its same meaning, progression or regression.

        The DNC’s official party stances are objectively regression. Progression, at this stage of socioeconomic development for the US, would be socialism. Actually it’d just be social capitalism since we have the worst social safety net of all advanced economies in world history, but given the party’s opposition to medicare for all, it cannot even manage that.

        The left wing starts at anti-capitalism in all places with established capitalist markets.

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      2 hours ago

      No. AIPAC mostly funds Democrats, who are neoliberal. So we only have two right wing parties. There isn’t anyone to “activate”. Corporate Dems believe in business interests as a priority and that is how they behave.

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      3 hours ago

      It’s not Republicans, it’s Israel and it’s both parties. Israel is worried because the progressive candidates have a real chance this election and are performing on not spending billions on Israel as well as health and wealth reform.

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      8 hours ago

      Yes, but also there’s plenty of Democrat bigots. A lot of them are “centrist” and/or “moderate.”