i've talked to left and right wingers in person about this and most seem to agree with this concept or contributed to it. at the vaguest level it's perceived as two groups, the neoliberals/neocons and the populists. the populists have a left (berniecrat, demsoc) and right (trumpian, nazbol-lite) wing. the neos are all the old guard repubs (mitch) and centrist/corporatecrats. at their most basic understanding of this they believe the populists are trying to help the people while the neos only care about the markets. obviously this struggle is being heavily catalyzed by the 2k checks.

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    4 years ago

    there's some degree of proto-consciousness brewing, but it's not going to be reflected in party politics because the parties of capital are only allowing "populists" to have power in defanged or captured forms. both the dems and the GOP defeated their popular internal threats, and have reaffirmed for now that there is no alternative. the only thing that's going to make a national election ever matter again is a new worker's party backed by an unprecedented mass movement.