One of the biggest obstacles facing workers issues in the US is the disproportionate representation that corporate interests recieve, due to funding campaigns indirectly through citizens united. Bernie highlights the end of citizens’ united, and public funding for political campaigns as key pathways to fix the outsized political impact of corporate interests
As long as corporate interests bankroll political campaigns, the people we can vote for will be elected partially at the behest of companies, and will have a conflict of interest in representing American workers
Lmfao, what a joke…
He should know better. He should know that as long as both exist, capital and state (and especially, but not exclusively in the US, organised religion) are inseparably intertwined, by motherfucking design, and the only way to separate them, is to abolish both and start from scratch and without the influence of either (while Sanders, like all other politicians, has a deeply vested interest in maintaining at least half of the equation - the state and its existing form of government, and its, and his own, influence).
I’m seriously getting sick of this feeble bullshit being what people think leftism is.
Your purity makes you ineffective and useless.
Ok, well, for those of us who don’t think a state of civil war following total collapse of the United States government is a good idea I’m glad there’s people like him trying to work out another path forward.
It kinda feels like you’re advocating the viewpoint that anything less than total revolution is useless. While I understand feeling like the system is working as intended, I don’t think that means we can’t improve things short of overthrowing the government and enforcing a more just society through violence. And I think that the argument that short of a complete rewrite there’s nothing we can do really just makes people feel more defeated and apathetic. If you wanna win the war, morale is kinda important.
I find it very easy to let perfect be the enemy of good, and I think that policy change that moves the country in the right direction, like putting more power (proportionally) in the hands of the American public is a good thing worth fighting for, regardless of whether you’d like a future that’s further from our current reality.
(Also, your comment comes across as pretty angry and that’s perfectly understandable given the state of the world, but please know I’m not disagreeing with you trying to start an argument or flame war about whose political opinion is correct, I don’t really think that’s productive and don’t really want to be the target of someone’s anger)
People like you should trial: living in abject poverty, living in a “communist” state, or even in a community that implements their own demands. Y’all just see a problem with the system and think the only solution is to start afresh with some half-baked, idealistic system that always somehow fails to consider that humans are shitty animals from the get go.
Y’all run your mouths about anarchy (which will fail as soon as people start murdering each other) or marxism or communism (without even understand what those are or looking at how things went historically) and can’t even fathom why they haven’t worked out or were replaced.
no matter how extreme you are there are those who are more extreme. Some would claim that humans are flawed and will always try to abuse any system you come up with so all humanity must be wiped if we want to get rid of this.