@Kethianna @Remittancegirl

Either the Fascists dominate forever.

Or the Democrats become an actual left wing party, a strong advocate for labor above all, free medicine, free post-secondary education, extremely high taxes on rich people, nationalizing or restricting key industries like Twitter which flout the law... etc.

Or conceivable a new left wing party will spring up and revitalize America. But the DNC has proven very talented at crushing anything to the left of "center right".

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@Kethianna @Remittancegirl ...offering the services that a modern government in a developed country offers, which isn't just free medical care, but things like a *right* to vote - you don't have that in the US, you know - which means free and easy to get ID, active outreach by impartial election officials to make sure people who have a right to vote have everything they need, and mandatory time off for everyone to vote;

and I'm going to stop here, because you can imagine the rest.

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@Kethianna @Remittancegirl But after just two decades, Reagan came in, and anti-authoritarian America never recovered.

While the majority of the blame is of course with the Republicans, all hope was lost when the Democrats starting with Clinton moved sharply to the right on everything except identity politics (which isn't actually left or right, anyway).

When I moved to the US around 1984, both parties were promising what was essentially socialized medicine.

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@Kethianna @Remittancegirl

I left in 2016, when neither party was talking about it. In 2008, the Obama administration banned the mention of single payer from any of the discussions about the ACA, and also refused to allow any comparisons with any foreign healthcare systems, and I knew the game was up.

Why am I telling you this?

Because if we don't understanding our history, we're going to repeat our mistakes over and over again.

We've been fighting and losing for generations.

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