https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/far-right-group-stakes-claim-at-whidbey-island-grange-stoking-angry-debate-and-exposing-political-divides/

  • OhWell [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Democrats are going to spend the next few years trying to make the thin blue line flags their thing, and "take it back from the Republicans".

    All it's going to do is further alienate people away from that awful corrupt party.

      • OhWell [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Material conditions haven't worsened enough yet. But they will, given that we are headed towards another great depression and Biden wants to push austerity.

        Biden is a game changer. He ran on nothing except 'Not Trump', and yet still, it took a pandemic that has killed over a quarter of a million people for him to just barely beat a reality TV star. Over 70 million people still voted for Trump. The people who voted for Biden, are expecting him to actually do something and Dems to do something. Yet despite this, those useless corrupt cowards couldn't even retake the senate and are set up to lose the house.

        Biden has no filter. Listen to the leaked audio from a few days ago of him getting into it with black activists. He goes straight off the wall with white supremacist talking points, and is so aggressive towards them with anger. He also shot himself in the foot with that tweet last week saying 'the government's job isn't to help you, stop asking for handouts'.

        Biden will destroy the Democratic party. They are going to alienate everyone away from them until all they are left with is the moderates and the Republicans who want to cross over (Romney, Kasich). If the squad and progressives can double their numbers in 2022 midterms, I think they'll break away from that corrupt party and let them implode around this asshole elected as president.

    • Blarglefargle [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Which is where we come in. Leftist orgs NEED to sweep in and fill the roll the Dems leave in the city and blue collar areas to chase the suburbs and gentrifying class.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    "sometimes" co-opted? lol more like a transparent fucking dogwhistle

  • RedArmor [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Gonna be hard to go to a business when everyone is dead.

    How is that these people, who fail to pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel, have any sort momentum/movement of any sort.