With some prominent Democrats and liberal pundits arguing for the party to try to win Elon Musk back to its side, you have to ask: Is American politics simply a matter of who can best kiss the ass of narcissistic reactionary billionaires?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/40905844

With some prominent Democrats and liberal pundits arguing for the party to try to win Elon Musk back to its side, you have to ask: Is American politics simply a matter of who can best kiss the ass of narcissistic reactionary billionaires?

  • matlag@sh.itjust.works
    17·
    4 days ago

    This illustrates the issue of having only 2 political parties. You used to have left and right. Then the right extended all the way to batshit crazy nazi while losing touch with the centre-right, and it collapsed to keep only t̂he nazis. Meanwhile the “left” extended to centre then all the way to the economic right.

    Now you have a nazi party and an everything else party, and people ask the last to “get their shit together”, as if socialists would sort out their differences with neo-liberals and conservatives over a quick diner and build a common ground plan.

    That just can’t work.

    • Soup@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 days ago

      It also accentuates the need for ranked choice voting or something similar. You need to give a people a way to say what they want to say with nuance and power. If everyone says they wish they could vote for someone else but need to vote strategically then parties never need to be good and can just thump on about defeating the evil party.

      Yes, I’m from Canada and vote NDP, how did you know?

      • matlag@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        3 days ago

        But so you know well that a party committing to change the voting system will have a change of heart after realizing the current system brought them to power. (I’m in Canada too ;) ).

        • Soup@lemmy.world
          3·
          3 days ago

          Of course, and how we force the issue I don’t know. I wish people would just stop strategically voting altogether because it only delays, and grows, the issue but that’s a lost cause. Not that I don’t continue to fight that fight but I know that winning people over toward voting in their best interests isn’t the way.