@tzimmer_history

" the Democratic Party is the country’s sole (small-d) democratic party"

The remaining small-d-democratic party is not far behind the autocratic Republicans.

The current breed of politicians are doing the bidding of the owner class and they know it and act accordingly, despite having the numbers of real life victims of capitalism ala the bigger/richest owner class.

They don't work towards getting lobby/money influence out of the decision tree.

@silkester @tzimmer_history

I think this is really easy to say if you're not a black or brown person being hunted down on the streets of an American city.

@HakeemG @tzimmer_history

I think that the capital-D Democratic Party betrayed its people for decades, because even after Nixon aide Ehrlichman confessed, the capital-D Democratic party didn't take away the incentive for political prisoners and restored that part of US democracy.

And their current willingness to fund Trump's storm troops aka DHS speaks volumes.

@silkester @tzimmer_history

You think that because you have probably lived a privileged life. I know that my aunt is alive today because of Obamacare. She's not alone, 20 million people received healthcare as a result of that bill.

@HakeemG @tzimmer_history

And if Clinton the asshole had restored the security pool to its former glory a lot more people would be alive today and reforms with the black voting pool intact, many legislation in favor of people would have been possible.

You might even have avoided Trump both times and Hillary Clinton wouldn't have been the Democratic candidate either.

You ignore the big picture of anecdotal evidence. Living on the wrong side of the track in food deserts is a reality in the US.

@silkester @tzimmer_history

I'm not sure what you're talking about but Bill Clinton was highly regarded in the black community. In fact so was Hillary, that's how she beat Bernie in 2016, even though he blamed it on the "elites", aka black people in southern states. He was the original election denier and to this day his base still claims that election was stolen from them. The similarities with MAGA are striking.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/14/16640082/donna-brazile-warren-bernie-sanders-democratic-primary-rigged

@HakeemG It doesn't mean that the Clintons are good for America. Former President Clinton is a neoliberal asshole.

Many USians revere Reagan, and boy was he an asshole.

And we will never know how much of an asshole Hillary Clinton would have been.

@silkester

What does that have to do with Bernie being the original election denier and pushing his anti democratic conspiracies?

@HakeemG

"What does that have to do with Bernie being the original election denier and pushing his anti democratic conspiracies?"

What are you referring to? I'm talking socio-economic frameworks not election denial.

I'm talking how social security was eroded.

Do you even are aware of what Nixon aide Ehrlichman confessed to?

@silkester

Yes I'm aware that Nixon started the war on drugs to target black and brown people who have borne the brunt of it. A fact that Bernie and his base refuse to acknowledge by pretending the country's current problems are isolated to class. Note how different the country responded to poor and working class white people when they had drug issues.

@HakeemG

Good. So we can agree that when the Democrats had the majority, they didn't establish voting rights for felons in prisons.

The incentive to write legislation to eliminate votes for the opposition remains.

That is not a Bernie problem. That is an entire party problem.

@silkester

Except Bernie is a both sides BS artist who lives in a delusional world where the horrors and atrocities that are occuring now are similar to the world we lived in during the Biden years. That's painfully incorrect, except to the most oblivious and privileged people in the nation. Not to mention the guy spends all his time on right wing podcasts helping to normalize the fringe.