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Originally Posted by TheBig3
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Yeah the labor movement has been decimated in this country and has little power. Building it back up again is going to take decades, but no amount of protest votes are going to make up for the working class' lack of organization.
If a bunch of Dem voters vote Republican or stay home the Democratic Party will just ignore the reasons why they lose elections and point to the bad things the Republicans are doing and/or might do and use that to fundraise while punching down on the left as the real reason why they lost. Come on, man, you know this.
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It's not.
The reason society is moving so far out of whack is that they've had it too easy for too long. The generation that built a Global Liberal Democracy survived the depression and World War 2. They knew what real threats were and they decided to never allow them to happen again. They marched to the polio vaccine lines.
This generation thinks that food and peace will always be there. There's no getting through to them. Have you talked to these morons? Look at these ****ing people - you try getting through to them.
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This is a right wing interpretation of history. "Hardship makes people hard and peace makes people soft."
It was the WW2 generation who made peace with the bosses and gave up their militancy and their workplace autonomy to get a social safety net and by the time the bosses started cutting pay and benefits and deindustrialization obliterated the blue collar middle class the workers had become too used to pensions and healthcare and conspicuous consumption to remember what it was like to fight Pinkertons in the streets.
They became what capitalism wanted them to be by the machinations of the US corporate oligarchy that gave them televisions to keep them docile.
The people aren't the source of the problem. Capitalism is.
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As Gore Vidal said - There are only two parties in the US. Jefferson and Hamilton. The People vs. Institutions. And no matter how you slice it - that's the end result. This moronic idea that "we need to end the duopoly!" is said by people who only read half the book. To offer some olive branch here, Vidal also believes there's only one political party in the US - The Corporate Party in which Democrats and Republicans are just wings of this party.
It will always be People vs. Institutions. There is no other option. And Centrism, to this end is just the very American practice of dividing up power. Three branches of government. 50 states. 12 national banks. Market, market, market.
There is no 3rd party. There will be no third party. Have you ever looked at the Green Partys foreign policy? It's unhinged. The Libertarians in general aren't a serious group - they might as well be the Hogwarts party.
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You know you started this whole series of rants attacking Biden and the Democratic Party but then immediately pivoted to screeds against the voters. If the voters have been made apathetic and nihilistic about the idea that the government, that exists now purely to facilitate capitalism, will ever do anything to help them then perhaps that's not the fault of the voters, slack-jawed though they may be. Perhaps it's the fault of the institution you claim is "vs." them and has worked long and hard to make sure they are apathetic and nihilistic and have no hope.
The Institution has won, and you can't fight back at them with the atrophied methods of civic engagement they've left you with. That would be like using the cap gun your parents gave you for Christmas to rob them at gunpoint.