The statistics don’t say, but I suspect enough that the dems would have won if they’d either nominated him or adopted his policies instead of ratfucking him in the primary and telling the people suffering who liked his policies they’re doing just fine.

Primary them, but also make it as clear as possible, before, during, and after the primary, that republican-lite is not electable because the DCCC has shown time and time again they will put as much weight as they can on primaries to make sure the left doesn’t win, from blackballing any companies and staffers that support a primary against an incumbent (this is never applied to primarying progressives or companies that help elect republicans) to defunding state party’s funds and quitting if the progressives take control of the state party.

If the left candidate doesn’t win, I am not voting for a republican-lite and giving them further power to the guys we see rolling over for fascism right now.

That is what the tea-party did, and it scared the republican party in line, and the ones who didn’t toe the line, but still managed to win primaries, lost general elections.

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most of his supporters absolutely hate Hillary Clinton so they didn’t vote for her and then Trump won his first election.

6-12% of Sanders supporters voted Trump. ~82-83% of that 6-12% were conservatives. Bernie had broader appeal with everyone except the “vote blue no matter who” crowd because policies that immediately improve people’s material conditions are popular. Telling someone who is struggling to make ends meet “America is already great” is not popular.

For comparison, 15% of Clinton primary voters voted republican in 2008

That’s the thing, left policy is overwhelmingly popular when you don’t attach it to a democrat and you don’t complicate it with means testing or market solutions or anything else.

Even republican voters like the idea of “free healthcare”. But you say “free healthcare, for people who meet X Y Z requirements” and 90% of people will assume that this program won’t apply to them.

You say “tax credits for people with children, after you fill out 5 forms and prove you make more than X but less than Y, applied to this scale”, and even people who meet that criteria children will assume it won’t help them. You just tell them “every working family with a kid under 18 gets a $3,600 check”, they’ll support it.

The democrats are miles to the right of their voters. This situation is further enforced by the media, who push the narrative of the “median voter” or “moderate republican”, who is half way between democrat and republican; who will vote for “up to 40K college loan forgiveness for people with STEM degrees who were born on a prime numbered day and operated a business in an underserved neighborhood for 3 years” (Kamala’s 2020 policy) but thinks that “free college” would be a step too far.

Lemmy is full of “vote blue no matter who” libs who think the party cannot fail, it can only be failed.

It was failed by its voters in 2010, when it failed to make a meaningful impact in peoples lives despite having the executive, 60 senators, and the house.

And then voters failed it again in 2016 when they didn’t turn out for “America is already great” while paychecks remained stagnant and rent continued to increase.

And again in 2022 after Joe “nothing will fundamentally change” Biden failed to use his power to change anything.

And again in 2024 after Kamala “How would my administration be different from Biden’s? I would have a republican in my cabinet” Harris ate shit.

These people understand at a deep level that the democratic party would rather lose than embrace left policy and cannot be pressured by its voters, so the only lever they feel they have to influence outcome is to silence any criticism.

He (and Biden) didn’t care when the 100% tariffs on Chinese cars kept the average electric car price at like $60K, why would they care when Americans are paying $100,000 for an average car?

Communism isn’t when everyone lives like a farmer from 200 BC.

Unironically though, you can see the same pattern going all the way back to Rome.[Michal Parenti’s The Assassination of Julius Caesar]

Something about the history of all hitherto existing society being the history of class struggles.

The Khmer Rouge was never socialist, they were some weird feudal ideology, hence why the CIA supported them and the US recognized them as the legitimate government of Cambodia for like 30 years after Vietnam liberated them and put an actual socialist government in power.

Russia hasn’t been socialist since 1992; Putin’s Russia is what happens when you overthrow a democratic state run by the workers for the workers with a vibrant, multiparty capitalist “democracy”.

“Socialism with Chinese characteristics” is more democratic than the US; the average Chinese person feels they have far greater influence on the government than the average American. They tend to be confused why Americans hate and fear the police and why we aren’t able to vote for politicians who will fix the problem.

There’s also Cuba, who had a referendum on a new constitution a few years ago. After years of debate at the community level, they came up with a final draft that 92% of Cubans voted yes on. Could you imagine if we had that level of influence over our own government?

See the thing you’re missing is that the communist parties of these countries themselves democratic; they’re typically structured such that every member above the rank-and-file is elected, with instant recall and “give us a better candidate” options.

It is an observation of historical facts, I am not prescribing any particular action.

Running in the woods and trying to wage a protracted people’s war against the local police didn’t put the nazis in their place either, so who exactly would I be calling to arms?

American asylums weren’t exactly shining beacons of human rights during that period either. JFK’s sister had her frontal lobe scraped until she could no longer repeat the lyrics of a song because she said problematic things as a woman.

To be clear, screaming on rooftops didn’t put the nazis in their place, communists with guns did.

lmao. Musk is defunding imperialism, not out of any moral compulsion, but because he’s just that dumb.

I will be genuinely surprised if this actually goes through.

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Are you talking about campus police across all the universities?

Campus police, plus regular police brought in who usually charge the university. Common rates include ~100/hour for overtime, plus 100/cop/day for food, and other expenses like tiergas and cuffs.

These schools spent hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to pay cops to kick the shit out of their own students, and they got defunded anyway.

Yes, it makes a difference if Trump was saying anybody would “act like Russia”, whatever that means vs anybody would continue attacks after Ukraine’s main supporter pulls back.

Is the first sentence of the article incorrect?

President Donald Trump expressed understanding Friday for Russia’s stepped-up attacks on Ukraine after the White House halted military and intelligence aid

Trump isn’t referring to the invasion itself, but Russia attacking now that US decreased its support.

He’s not wrong here, was anyone expecting Russia to go “Welp, now that the US isn’t sharing intelligence with Ukraine, we better surrender”.

Then again, maybe they’ll do better now that the US isn’t telling them to use NATO tactics or lower their draft age again.