• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    We don’t live in that theoretical fantasy world, and moreover that still does not logically justify allowing a small handful of people to live like gods. I am talking about reality, not a dream you had.

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      6 hours ago

      lol!

      Look who is talking about dreaming.

      Have a nice day and don’t hold your breath until the revolution.

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        6 hours ago

        Revolution has already happened in quite a few countries, one of them with one of the largest economies and populations on the planet. It’s more a matter of time.

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          6 hours ago

          So, while we wait for the inevitable revolution, why not bring back the New Deal?

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            It wouldn’t be terrible if it happened, but there’s no path to actually making that happen that wouldn’t make more sense to go for revolution. Even when congress was more controlled by the Democrats, no such program emerged.

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                No, I’m not. The conditions that led to the New Deal are entirely different from the conditions of today, so we must reexamine if such a program could be forced into passing today. I don’t believe there’s a path to that, unless there is already revolutionary pressure bubbling and risking the entire system.

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                  5 hours ago

                  I don’t believe there’s a path to that, unless there is already revolutionary pressure bubbling and risking the entire system.

                  There’s the problem right there. You’re ready to throw away any progress because it isn’t perfect

                  You guys saw Ronald Reagan, but couldn’t get behind Carter because he wasn’t good enough.

                  Same with Bush and Gore, and Clinton and Trump.

                  You guys are the biggest friends the Right ever had.

                  Heck, go back to the 1930s. The Fascists then labeled themselves Anti-Communist and reaped the rewards.

                  The road to hell is paved with good intentions. That’s all you have. good intentions.

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                    You can’t just pray progress into existence. If this second New Deal has no electoral path to implementation, it doesn’t exist, and ergo isn’t progress. To the contrary, based on the analysis of our conditions I have done, I think revolution is genuinely more feasible than passing the New Deal again, and moreover a New Deal would not stop Imperialism, we’d need revolution anyways.