Democrats are not leftists

[Politruk]

No party can fairly be called "leftist" unless its political success would pose a real threat to the power of the rich and the corporations.

The Democrats do not meet that test. They give lip-service to labor, but on balance, they are almost as wholly owned by Wall Street as the Republicans.

 

[Politruk]

If the Dems were a leftist party, Sanders would have been the presidential nominee at some point.

Not that even Sanders is all that leftist. At any rate he is not a socialist, though he calls himself one. He's a left-progressive social democrat -- meaning a vigorous welfare state and a redistributive tax system, WITHIN CAPITALISM. Nationalizing the means of production is not on the agenda.

The same applies to those few Dems such as AOC who are members of the Democratic Socialists of America. Not really a leftist organization in any revolutionary sense.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

It would be a shame if someone shot you in the face.

 

[ll74]

No party can fairly be called "leftist" unless its political success would pose a real threat to the power of the rich and the corporations.

The Democrats do not meet that test. They give lip-service to labor, but on balance, they are almost as wholly owned by Wall Street as the Republicans.

This is dumb. Parties ebb and flow between moderate and extreme all the time. They can be called leftists or rightists when they drift too far outside of the middle because that's the definition of both

 

[Politruk]

This is dumb. Parties ebb and flow between moderate and extreme all the time. They can be called leftists or rightists when they drift too far outside of the middle because that's the definition of both

Definitions of political positions do not depend on where the center of the Overton Window happens to be at the moment.

There was a time in America when slavery abolitionism was a radical fringe position -- but that did not make the abolitionists leftists.

 

[Politruk]

And the there's that bullshit about Cultural Marxism.

 

[Politruk]

Some dumbasses even think Harris is a Commie! if only! She ain't even a social democrat!

 

[Pad_Foot]

There are no COMMUNISTS in America!!

Who in America, as an America, has had to joy of being led in Death March??

No one wants all you God damned weath or property

No wants your goddamn guns either

Someone is playing on your FEAR and your hate !! They don’t want to pay taxes like you do!!

 

[Politruk]

There are no COMMUNISTS in America!!

Well, there is the Communist Party USA. But it don't amount to much.

 

[Pad_Foot]

Well, there is the Communist Party USA. But it don't amount to much.

Amazing!!
And… do THEY know about death marches?
F Communists of that ilk
I have family in Greece where it really is a party where there is a history of civil war and death marches
Sooooo F Russia !