Cowbee, you have an amazing ability to defend socialism and explain the same concepts day after day while never allowing frustration or anger to taint your replies. I salute you, comrade. 🖖

Most people have to work and do not have the time to home school their children.

Wanting to dominate others is a trait of sociopaths, and not something that most humans want.

USAID has a complicated history. On the one hand, preventing deaths by starvation is absolutely laudable and something that every rich nation should be trying to do. However as a tool for soft power, USAID was used to turn subsistence farmers off of their land so that US companies can buy it or so that the country becomes entirely reliant on the US and will do whatever they say, and that’s pretty evil.

That being said, cutting USAID overnight is the stupidest way to go about fixing the problems that USAID creates (and obviously Trump doesn’t care about the evil side anyway).

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Fixed that for you.

Personally, I’m putting my political energy into arenas where actual change is possible. I’m done simping for capitalists.

Neoliberals believe in the de-regulation of capital, which has been the outcome of every president since Reagan, regardless of the words they use to win elections.

And Biden was progressive? Lol you really have no idea what words mean.

What are you talking about? Every President since Reagan has been neoliberal.

The possibility of infiltrators is meaningless when the Democrats are themselves a pro-capitalist neoliberal party. Their fundamental class interests do not allow them to make reform that is beneficial to the working class. This is why whenever the Dems are in power they either outright refuse to do anything meaningful, or the reforms they do pass are so convoluted and means-tested-to-hell that they end up making things worse in some way.

If Kamala had declined to support genocide… If Obama had prosecuted the 08 banking criminals… If Gore had contested the 2000 election…

As awful as the Republicans are, we must remember that the Democrats have always succeeded at making sure their colleagues across the aisle never face too severe consequences. After all, that would make dinner on Thursday quite awkward.

I agree with everything you’ve said, except that we don’t have to wait for community to be built to work on the military problem. We can do both simultaneously.

The PSL (and others, but the PSL is the most notable ML-oriented organization in the US right now) are aware of the current realities, btw. Their position is that there is a groundswell of class consciousness that is growing, but still very small. Their strategy is to nurture that growth while simultaneously creating a cadre of trained political operatives to provide leadership for the moment when that class consciousness is large enough that the idea of subverting the military isn’t so laughable. It’s a realistic strategy that is based on 200 years of revolutionary history, and successes and failures.

You say it’s unrealistic, and yet every successful socialist revolution has had the backing of at least some of the military. This is the stupidest thing about liberals, they always imagine that the way the world is now is the way it will always be. But material conditions are constantly changing and what seems impossible now may seem inevitable tomorrow. But you’ll never know if you keep dismissing the people who are actually trying to change the world as LARPers.

And btw, while I’m too old to be considered for military service, at least one revolutionary party, the PSL, has specifically created strategies to insert members into the military to foment revolutionary fervor. So yeah, people are doing exactly the thing that you deride as “unrealistic.”

What do you mean?

Of course. Serious revolutionaries know you must infiltrate or otherwise subvert the military to be successful.

Well, that’s the only peaceful way. Revolution is always an option. But also, as long as the economic system allows individuals to hoard vast properties, the wealthy will use their power to influence politics.

Denial of the Armenian genocide might make Cenk a little bit more than an asshole. Sure the left needs allies, but we can do better than genocide deniers and secret Nazis. We have plenty of forceful and eloquent speakers who don’t have extremely questionable backgrounds.

Which police departments were defunded?

Yeah 12 million people going out for a parade is not the sustained organized campaign that is required to topple dictators peacefully. Maybe if it was 12 million protesting every day, but one day of protest isn’t going to do it, even if it shatters attendance records.

That would be a good argument if the Democrats hadn’t paved the way for Trump. We need new politics and new systems.

Oh ok, so the Democrats are doing everything they possibly can to fight fascism? No, they’re mostly just sitting around complaining how their hands are tied and they can’t do anything. We’d all be in the streets with guns right now if we had a leadership that actually cared about fighting fascism.