Exh ideologies

The views on our political system, political parties and ideologies ,bi/partisanship and similar polemic things are written in the book Mediations of a Militant Moderate https://books.google.com/books?id=VMZHuyK5NTsC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false   are an outline for at least some of my polemic views  

Right Wingers and Republicans are reactionaries. They are always on the DEFENSIVE, instead of being on the OFFENSIVE. They only exist to slow, prevent or turn back liberal/progressive and leftist views and agendas. I cannot think of hardly any views off the top of my head that Right Wingers and Republicans are on the offensive on and that s not a reaction to a liberal/progressive and leftist view and agenda

The Right wing only seems to consist of abortion crusaders, ratepayer-robbing utilities, anti-trans bullies or right-wing operatives scaring the bejesus out of school parents with a fake crisis framed as leftist indoctrination to shame white kids

I would love to talk about how terrible Republicans are, but Democrats won't give me even a moment to do so.  

The political spectrum generally is extremely damaging since it shoves groups together based on personal bias. To a right-winger, radlibs (Liberal 2.0 sect) promoting promoting woke segregation are "far-left" when I would label them liberal 2.0 pawns. 

At the same time, people I would consider "far-right" ultimately claim "nope I'm a groyper-adjacent peepeepoopooist". So it's all useless because nobody really knows where they sit because you obviously cannot simplify a hundred different issues onto a two-sided graph. There are people that put A.H as a "leftist" because the naughtzies called themselves "socialist" to gain cheap votes from workers. At that point, why the heck even bother.

The political compass meme is even worse because it pushes "authority bad :((" which is freaking insane.

“ Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience” CS Lewis

Another way to put his sentiment is this: It's better to have an enemy who is acts bad and admits it (robber barons) rather than an enemy who acts bad but makes it look good (moral busybodies). It's easier to fight against injustice when it's clearly injustice and not hidden underneath a veneer of morality.

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have" Thomas Jefferson

I am wary to cautiously ok with Reunited States of America film and its points . But I also second some critiques that Jacobin had of that film. While political divisiveness is certainly a huge issue in the US, it is poverty and exploitation that are the biggest problems in the US and are bigger issues than political divisiveness 

I like how the film talks about the need for conversations, wants to go beyond partisanship and rancor, tries to create a system of solutions, to be problem solvers, not a partisans

I like how the film wants to shatter the political binary. There is multiple valid ways to solve math problems according to Equitable Math so there is similarly multiple valid views on and solutions to political issues also

It is topical in broad stokes but frustratingly allergic to particulars . It is earnest and well meaning

It rightfully makes a decent case for political empathy. But political empathy and a willingness to hear alternative viewpoints, as it turns out, generally can only get you so far.

The film was too vague . It can’t seem to make a meaningful case for itself beyond its vague promotion of “finding common ground.

The film’s implicit premise that polarization is a matter of tone and individual attitude, the true business of politics in the end involves competing values and interests that cannot be reconciled. 

Even the most rancor-free political disagreements between Left, Liberal 2.0 and Right will remain disagreements, since conversations aren’t a substitute for public policy.

Jacobian took the words right out of my mouth: “The ultimate irony of the rebranded centrism qua populist idealism that a film like The Reunited States puts forward is that the would-be “solutions” it offers rarely enjoy any real popular buy-in. Millions of ordinary voters may dislike Congress, the two major parties, and the superficial spectacle that passes for discourse on network TV, but they’re hardly pining for a lukewarm agenda of means-tested tax credits or the election of phony outsider candidates like Michael Bloomberg and Howard Schultz — both of whom enjoyed decidedly less success than figures like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, who (despite the vast ideological chasm separating them) ran explicitly against the conventional governing class.

Rather than indulging in post-partisan fantasies, ordinary Americans should be encouraged to ask why their political and media institutions are so chronically unrepresentative of majority opinion, and why corporate interests are so regularly allowed to drown out dissenting views. Political discourse could always use a bit less toxicity, but what ails American society will not be healed by independent centrist lawmakers or a grassroots movement for post-partisan bridge-building. Far more urgently, the United States needs a movement for democratic government and majority rule.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskALiberal/comments/jvu8to/i_used_to_be_a_liberal_4_years_ago_but_im/ and 

The vast majority of politicians in the US, Europe etc are whites and that is an injustice

So with so many white politicians , it is a hard truth that naturally whites to have control of the political system. Whites have been major players behind relevant decisions .

Even in countries made up of mostly BIPOC politicians, whites are then promoted into power positions as advisers and ministers by these officials.

This injustice is why I support more political diversity as seen throughout this blog

I am against politicians being corrupt. 

"If we lie to the government it’s a felony. But if they lie to us its politics"   a quote from an unknown source

Liberal 2.0ers and their political views are on a higher hierarchy than non Liberal 2.0ers on the left and right and their political views and I am against hierarchies.  

I am against both partisan extremes along with Liberalism 2.0. 

If I sound partisan/too partisan on issues ,blame the polarizing politicians ,MSM, and political system itself for me having to be non partisan/too partisan on said issues. I , along with most Americans are victims of this polarizing/partisan political tug of war between the left and right for too long where me being a ‘militant moderate’ is getting harder by the day

Democrats exist to be a foil to the Republicans. The two parties were similar for so long but the Democrats chose to be the more ‘liberal party’ to differentiate itself from the Republicans. The Democrats embrace Liberal, Liberal 2.0 and progressive (and extremely rare leftist) views more to differentiate themselves from the Republicans than to naturally or truly have said views

There is no left, there is no liberal 2.0,  there is no right. There is only liberty, tyranny and the sliding scale between all three of them.

It is not so much about left versus liberal 2.0 versus right, but really the future versus the past

Not left , not liberal 2.0, not right but Forward. 

Beyond/transcend the left, liberal 2.0 and right but against the center. 

Reject the left , liberal 2.0 and right. 

To people who say we Leftists should “should stand up for the weak and vulnerable” , my response is, enjoy your ‘Left’ (though really Liberal 2.0 if you think about it), built on weakness and a collective inability to criticize each other another. I will be over here building my Left, which isn’t full of lame snowflakes frantically carving out safe spaces and whining about criticism. Debate it if you want, otherwise bless your heart

I don't see politics along a Left/Liberal 2.0/Right divide, I see politics along a Top/Bottom divide.

We can’t go back to the middle ages or even back a few decades like right wingers and reactionaries want (due to the system being stacked against them) and we do not want to go in the Liberal 2.0 misdirection so we might as well go way way Left . 

Maybe by going that far left we can discover a new political spectrum wing that can please all Left Wingers, Libleft and AuthLeft alike, non extremist right wingers and reactionaries and maybe even Liberal 2.0ers at the same time (possibly a new political spectrum wing that is the closest approximation of what Fourth political positionism, Fifth political positionism, Sixth political positionism, Seventh political positionism would look like in our universe with our laws of nature)

I could be described as a double fishhook theory triangulation Centrist (extreme upper center)

When right wingers/chuds/christian right/reactionaries criticize Liberal 2.0 and left wing viewpoints they feel in their minds and from their perspective they are ‘morally correct’ and that they are the true ‘liberals’ ,’progressives’ and ‘leftists’ . Remembering this can be key to countering such rhetoric from right wingers/chuds/christian right/reactionaries

I support developing and improving directly with autonomous citizen councils and municipal spaces

Our political parties should attend to the conciliation needs of each person who participates in our political parties that is based on the commitment of the political parties’ regulations and protocols to attend to those needs and also when appropriate in the exercise of his public function.

We should ensure free, voluntary and open participation in our political parties to all people of all backgrounds, share the defense of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the democratic method of citizen participation and direct. We should also honestly discuss and respect all opinions, an objective for which we’ll always attempt to promote dialogue and the search for consensus

Our political ideologies should be rooted in protocols of loyalty, respect, and understanding. This should management should have a necessary and fundamental that had a clear feminist focus

Political parties should be structured like Podemos. Our current political parties are part of a political caste and we must end this political caste system 

Politicians should not be into careerism and ambition 

Ordinary people should have control of our political organizations

Politicians need to have a presence in social organizations and be among the people

I am fine with political parties not having trade union power within them

I am part Austromarxist because Austromarxism is relevant today due to the growing complexity of the new contexts of global society and the multiplication of migrations and refugees. Austromarxism is also relevant today due to the need to respond to minorities through accommodation via mechanisms of territorial and non territorial autonomy.

I support the creation of a caucus thats values include providing Tripartisan, Triangulation and paricpatory ideas on illegal immigration , ending wars or finding better alternatives to wars and and warmongering by the US, and promoting fair trade that benefit American workers

Congress should adopt a series of measurements and goals that can be modified and reexamined over time.

Representatives should select from these measures based on what they believe their constituents would care about then suggest how the laws they are passing will improve them.

I feel these measurements such as, but not limited to should be used to measure our GDP: Poverty rates, Life expectancy, Rates of Business formation, Clean Water, Crime Rates, Overdose deaths, Government Efficiency, Mental Health, Income Growth & Average Incomes, Affordability, Environmental Sustainability, Recidivism, Labor-force participation Rate, Military Readiness, Marriage Rates, Quality of Infrastructure, Rehabilitation Rates, Civic Engagement, Education Rates

I support Defensive Democracy in some cases when I deem it justified (and I would never support Defensive Democracy in situations where it  excessively repressed of civil rights). 

Defensive democracy is a collections of laws, legislation that is delegates and court rulings which limit specific rights and freedoms in a Constitutional Republic Democracy in order to protect the existence of the state and its character, human rights and institutions. 

Defensive Democracy refers to major conflict that could come about in a Democratic Constitutional Republic country between adherence with such country’s values,  (like freedom of association, the right to be elected, and between preventing parties, groups and peoples who are anti democratic from abusing these principles.

I repudiate the modern Republican GOP. I reject modern conservativsm as corrupt and decrepit 

I hate Republicans the GOP for being corporatist and aligned with corporations/big business . I am anti corporatist. I also hate them and Conservatives in general for being statist and rejecting small government

I do not align with the GOP politically at all. Evidence of this can be seen throughout my blogs. 

Republicans GOPers and Alt rightists don't share our values . They don't care about the welfare of the people in our big tent like we care for them because they don't share our values (moral relativeness is real but that's no excuse for them) 

Thus Republican GOPers and alt righters don't have nearly as many redeeming qualities as us Leftists.  This is why its extremely easier for me to forgive Leftists for their mistakes than Republican GOPers, including moderate Republicans and alt righters

Even though I am an American I absolutely criticize the Republican Party. The Republican Party is not just a threat to American minorities at this point but the Republican Party is even a threat to white Americans as long as they hold opposing viewpoints.

We should go against Republicans and use all people from both sides and Independents to do so

In this 2012 study, liberals endorse the individual-focused moral concerns of compassion and fairness more so than conservatives do, while conservatives endorse the group-focused moral concerns of ingroup loyalty, authority and tradition respect and physical/spiritual purity more so than liberals do. 

Across the political spectrum, moral stereotypes about "typical" liberals and conservatives correctly reflected the direction of the actual differences in foundation endorsement but exaggerated the magnitude of said differences. 

Contrary to common theories of stereotyping, the moral stereotypes weren’t simply underestimations of the political outgroup's morality. Liberals and conservatives both exaggerated the ideological extremity of moral concerns for the ingroup in addition to the outgroup. Liberals were least accurate about both groups. Also see this

Our government,  media etc seeks to divide us and pit us against each other to distract us from their uniparty corruption , power and self interests. We need to unite in a Big Tent or coalition and bring government back to the people. I support real direct democracy. See this post and this post for more

People on both sides have a common tendency to exaggerate the viewpoints of their ideological opponents They usually see on average, twice as much difference as actually exists. See this meme and post for a little more on this. Also see this post by me

According to Glenn Greenwald : “I would be on [Fox News] every day if I didn’t say no sometimes. Why is that happening? It’s bizarre. You look at any article on my work and it’s “far leftist Glenn Greenwald” and now I’m the most frequent guest on Tucker Carlson’s show. How did that happen? I think the reason is so many people on the left and on the right . . . have so much more in common in terms of their political views and their common enemies than either want to recognize. . . . Those old labels [left and right] don’t really tell us much anymore.”

There are also imagined extremism. This comes in a via conflicts over abortion rights, the interpretation of a racial-ethnic incident, the attitudes of certain social viewpoints etc  . Most Democrats see Republicans as fascists , most Republicans see Democrats as Socialists

Like saying someone who is against someone saying that Transgender women shouldn’t compete in Women’s sports  ‘doesn't want Transgender people to exist’.  or saying that someone who is against the 1619 project being taught in schools is ‘against students in schools learning about slavery’. or saying that supporting states requiring id to vote is trying to prevent minorities from voting or that those laws are ‘Jim Crow 2.0’.  All sides , especially Liberal 2.0era use strawman and hyperbole on every non Liberal 2.0 viewpoint and action

In disputes on politics, everyone seriously overestimates the polarization between both sides. This is due to demonization by each side toward the other

Like why would you accuse 'the conservative' of something when you have no clue what his/her views are? 'You conservatives want to ban gays' as if it's an argument against the increase of fire arms rights. I'm not saying it is not happening, but so much of the arguments only end up in ad hominens. If someone is talking about increasing fire arm rights, that in no way means they want to ban gays. There may be a correlation in that people want more gun rights but ban gays etc, but the issue with these terms is that you assume right off the bat you are 100% correct.

To quote William Mckinley “our differences are policies our agreements are principals”

Democrats-Liberals don't embrace Republican-Conservative views because they feel Republican-Conservatives aren't on the same team so their views are bad due to them being associated with Republicans-Conservatives. Republicans-Conservatives don't embrace Democrats-Liberals views because they feel Democrats-Liberals aren't on the same team so their views are bad due to them being associated with Democrats-Liberals (which is why Republicans and Conservatives rejected former President Barack Obama’s policies they should have embraced since Obama was almost like a Democrat version of GWB).

Anarcho Libertarianism is good because it (along with Anarchism as a whole) has a unique focus on community and collaboration that goes deeper than hollow tone deaf ,inclusive Capitalism

We should advance detailed arguments for workplace democracy rooted in such natural law principles as subsidiarity, which we defend as morally desirable and as a probable outcome of the elimination of injustice rather than as something that is mandated by the state.

Natural law approaches to land reform and factory occupation by workers. Rejecting natural law that grounds to intellectual property protections, while building on property rights more general and developing a general natural law account of boycotts.

Rudolf Rocker echoes my views on the relation between Anarchism and Liberal Socialism : “Modern anarchism is the confluence of the two great currents which during and since the French revolution have found such characteristic expression in the intellectual life of Europe: Socialism and Liberalism. The classical liberal ideals were wrecked on the realities of capitalist economic forms.

Anarchism is necessarily anti-p capitalist in that it opposes the exploitation of man by man. But anarchism also opposes the dominion of man over man. It insists that socialism will be free or it will not be at all. In its recognition of this lies the genuine and profound justification for the existence of anarchism. From this point of view, anarchism may be regarded as the libertarian wing of socialism. 

It is in this spirit that Daniel Guérin has approached the study of anarchism in Anarchism and other works.” This is also touched upon by Noam Chomsky here

The Republicans and some progressive or liberal conservative populists were the inclusive political party to at least the late 1960s (non racist, non antisemetic) . Those ideals were what the Republican party was founded on in the 1850s. The Republicans need to get back to being like that

I know that the party switch really happened, since why would political historians and scholars ever lie about something as important as that fact when doing so would hurt the Democrats and prop up the Republicans? 

But if this ‘no party switch’ myth by extreme Republicans at Conservapedia about how the party switch never happened was actually true instead of being alternative facts (blatant lies) and Republican propaganda , I would in that warped world, be much less hard on Republicans than I try to be now and I would in that strange world actively support the Freedom Caucus . But as it is in our world, nope.

What really happened between both political parties can be found here

The Republicans of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s were a GREAT political party and I am fine with that incarnation of them. In particular the Rockefeller Republicans and Richard Nixon, who actually had some Progressive traits. https://www.wsj.com/articles/richard-nixon-progressive-president-epa-title-ix-detente-cancer-desegregation-11636671414

The Democrat Conservatives of the 1960s were a lot better than the Republican Conservatives from the 1970s onward.  This is why I am a supporter of 1960s Democrat Conservatism 

The Republicans in the 1980s were a fairly good political party. Back then Republicans were seen as go getter yuppies and business people. 

On Family Ties for example, Alex, who was a Republican was a small-government, pro-capitalist libertarian at heart was a great person unlike some of the Republicans of today. Alex was hip and cool. This article puts it better than I can http://web.archive.org/web/20191011195307/https://www.cracked.com/article_26594_the-classic-sitcom-that-looks-completely-insane-in-2019.html

The Republicans in the early to mid 1990s were also a good party. Uncle Phil from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air was a great Republican. He rightfully belived in Affirmative action and fair housing for his community and he was moderately conservative on other issues while rightfully having faith in institutions like the courts.

Conservatism isn't only the Republican party. There are a lot of decent conservatives worldwide like in Canada, the UK, Germany that have good ideas, most of whom aren't like Donald Trump and MAGA. 

I want the Republican Party to move to the LEFT of the Democrat Party and Labour Party UK 

If they won’t do that I want the Republican Party to be banned and abolished and every one of their Republican stooges be banned from politics for life. 

The Republican Party has a major identity crisis and regardless of whether they were right or wrong (my political blogs can give you a hint on whether I mean right or wrong here) they betrayed their niche bases by being passive or supportive on highly questionable, controversial and anti Christian/anti God issues like: wokeness ,porn, children being exposed to drag queens, gender fluidity teachings in schools ,not finding radical centrist compromises on kids under 16 being transgender, pronouns (ymmv) , allowing polygamyin our current heteronormative, male  patriarchal system (when we should only allow it after we abolish marriage and the male patriarchy), government in the marriage business, family unit society not matching my views in my blogs,, adultery ,on demand late mid term and third trimester abortion ,Marijuana , imperialism and warmongering, Israel first,etc.   Filter this through my other complex and personal spiritual

Furthermore, the Republican Party wrongly betrayed migrants and illegal migrants by no longer being pro migrant and and pro illegal migrant as they once were (source Andrea Nagle book)

As the sentiment here, if the Republican party can’t even be conservative on and win on those issues , they should give up and move to the LEFT of the Democrat Party and Labour Party UK and if they won’t do that the Republican Party should be banned and abolished and every one of their Republican stooges be banned from politics for life.  I am trying to move the Republican Party as a whole at light speed in that direction , see way below for how 

I support this alternate history Fantasy world Republican Party 

In some ways I feel (from a far left Tankie perspective) that anti authoritarianism is fascist (or at least the type directed at the USSR, China in the last half century, and similar Tankie countries)

I wouldn’t mind seeing political machines make a comeback, but only if they were organized like Podemos

Liberal 2.0ers , the MAGA trolls & company , extreme right wing, Alt Right and far right today are an angry opposition that are no longer capable of participating constructively in political debate with relatively level headed opposition

This article contrasts how Liberal 2.0ers are on hot button issues with how former President Abraham Lincoln was on hot button issues

Why can’t they debate using politeness, reason, and conviction (and maybe humor and charm)?

“It is harder, but not less important, for us to try and communicate with those who do not agree with us on every issue. And it is important to see where if possible, and I do believe it is possible, we can find common ground."  Bernie Sanders

In terms of views, Liberal 2.0ers , the MAGA trolls & company , extreme right wing, Alt Right ,far rightists today are so unmoored from the reality of other views that they take on the paranoid style. I am sure most of them are capable of being reasonable .  

Republicans and Conservatives need to drop the us vs them populism and find reasons to unite with the other side instead of fight with them. Right Wing populists need to do the SHUT UP challenge 

Similarly the Liberal 2.0ers and some non Liberal 2.0 Democrats take a page straight out of the revisionist /International Communism (anti Individualist and anti Liberal revisionist International Communism only) playbook and the Fascist playbook which is to label anyone that doesn't think like them as the enemy

I think free as I wish... so I must be a total pos to them huh? I just don’t want people to hurt other people in their choices.

Both types of us vs them thinking by the Republicans and Democrats are disabling , everywhere you go you feel like people are judging you simply due to you believe in liberty/equality for everyone.

Politicians should not make decisions based on emotions but based on rational thinking. Being compassionate is good but there needs to be a balance with decision making

Democrats, Progressives and Liberal 2.0ers should drop the purity tests. People should support views based on research and independent thought not party lines)

I support political leaders who don't force their will upon people

Since an America socialistic Revolution is very likely not happening within the near future, I tepidly give extremely cautious and unenthused support to some Squad members who are populists (like AOC unironically)

AOC and her Squad populists literally can’t enact our Left wing policies /non Liberal 2.0 policies herself themselves since AOC and her populist Squadron are working in a system stacked against NON Liberal 2.0ers (AOC teeters on Liberal 2.0 and non Liberal 2.0 left). 

I realize that Republicans and corporate Democrats are far worse on imperialism than progressives like AOC and the Squad populists. I agree with what AOC said here as that is a fair and reasonable reason on why Democrats protest like they do recently without caring about optics. AOC should be more constituent with that type of thinking though

AOC and the Squad populists are not perfect, but they’re the best types of non Liberal 2.0 politicians to the left of Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema and most practical politicians between both parties that we can use to defeat Liberalism 2.0 now and usher in a socialistic revolution. 

AOC wants to reform the Democrats to make them go left of Liberalism 2.0 which is great with the added bonus of the Democrats shedding themselves of Liberalism 2.0 , Capitalism and corporatist fascism

For example while working as a bartender, she auditioned with Justice Democrats (.com) when she heard that a new PAC, started after his failed 2016 Presidential run by disgruntled Bernie Sanders campaign staffers and leaders, who were looking for people to “audition” as candidates to run against incumbents for Congressional seats, with the goal of the take over of Congress by Progressives committed to the JD/BNC platform.

The Justice Democrats’ (JD) purpose is the takeover of the Democratic Party,  because in order to save the soul of the Democratic Party the Justice Democrats will board the Democratic Party ship and take it over. (This is the proper definition of “mutiny”) 

Cenk Uygur also said that the Justice Democrats will run strong progressives (hopefully non Liberal 2.0 ones only) from now on and they will be the new wing of the Democratic Party. Maybe this can include getting an intellectual fringe to seize key positions of authority and power within the Democrat Party and eventually bring large numbers of people around (similar to what the Koch brothers did with their pro-business libertarianism)

This political ideology was greatly influenced by Subhas Chandra Bose who in the 1930s advocated a aggressive revolution against the British Empire to gain total independence for India.

However, sadly DSA are “woke-cialist,” so they are a bit Liberal 2.0 too (if the DSA wrongfully moves right, I would rather the DSA become Blue Dog or New Democrat or maybe even center right instead of becoming Liberal 2.0) . But the only place I want the DSA to be is Left wing (and thus non Liberal 2.0 which means NON wokecalist)

DSA just keeps woke young people in particular voting Democrat.  The DSA are sadly and essentially a recruiting wing of the DNC for young people at this point.

It is not common for so called ‘Socialist’ organizations to be primarily focused on wokeness but unfortunately, the DSA seems that they focus on that more than economics instead of balancing the two properly like I outline in this blog 

The DSA seems to function as a way to capture economic Leftist sentiment and redirect it to idpol and therefore the Democrats.

I love and agree with this quote by far leftist Ryan Knight: "I’ll tell you what happened: I woke up. The Democratic party has got so many of you to fall in line that you are lashing out at people who are demanding more from our politicians and demanding actual policies that will heal the deep inequities and injustice in this country." 

Why lesser of two evils (Democrats) has drawbacks, like here, here and here. Also see my post here and here, and the case for Dem Exit blog here (and see walkway stories here) At minimum I echo the general sentiment in this post. See here too and here (the screenshot tweet in the latter of which is compelling but...)

Having to vote Democrat each time (due to the ‘lesser of two evils’ thing since there is no viable left wing third parties) is totalitarian.  Actually we have a UNIPARTY totalitarianism similar to proto Liberal 2.0 totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe during the Cold War

This post here, shows that a Third Party can be successful , and that post destroys the ‘Democrats are lesser of two evils’ rhetoric. That post says that voting for the Democrat Party is like voting for the New Republican Party. Of course there is this post about third parties that is a bit more cynical 

"USA inc isn't concerned about D's/R's - USA inc is concerned about profits generated from exploitation of people and resources. politics has always been a side show - a farce."  Jimmy Dore

“They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. This is too much, even for a joke. But it is not a subject for levity; it is an exceedingly serious matter.”

- Eugene Debs, Works of EV Debs

The Democrats play the ‘good cop’, while Republicans play the ‘bad cop’

I pity people who think that the Democrats and Republicans represent two opposing sides. The Democrats and Republicans more like the aforementioned classic good cop/bad cop pair - one side is shouting in your face and threatening you, the other side is bringing you tea and saying he or she only wants to help, but look past the superficialities and you will see that both sides are on the same side, working for the same goal. 

MAGA people like Donald Trump because they believe that the CRT is literally evil. Democrats want to use CRT as a method to monitor colonized nations and to guide them toward assimilation and to become organized into a colonial army instead of liberation. 

They are only upset at each other due to tactics and rhetoric like how such things reflect their ideals. They are again, the good cop/bad cop combo. 

Donald Trump is always compared to dictators, but comparing him to dictators is oftentimes something of a racist, orientalist dogwhistle and obviously Democrats are always compared to communists, which too is a  racist, orientalist dogwhistle. 

MAGA people are not as interested in downplaying or rejecting historic people like Andrew Jackson or *George Washington they are not triggered or put off by their brutality as the Democrats are since they don't have any plans of opening the club up as much as Democrats make believe they want to. Its a war of brands of colonialism.

*George Washington was a white racist, i.e he owned slaves and because of that and above he was only a President for white America bigots

Both parties have always played "Good Cop/Bad Cop", but currently they have found it was easier for them to merely play "Bad Cop/Worse Cop"

At the same time the Democrats have the power to stop the Republicans, and do nothing. The US government is literally just a nation wide usage of once again 'good cop/bad cop'  

While it would be base to see the Democrats become non Liberal 2.0 and you would think them becoming the New Republican Party would move them right of Liberalism 2.0, thus becoming non Liberal 2.0 , however…..

Unfortunately seeing how that type of ‘shift’ by the Democrats to become the New Republican party only involves them staying where they are on the political spectrum while Democrats take some non Liberal 2.0 policies right of Liberalism 2.0 and make those particular non Liberal 2.0 policies become Liberal 2.0 by sanitizing them (like making Neoconservatism be used to spread western morality, abusing entrapenaurship to spread wokeness, using the FBI to go after Leftists , moderates and Conservatives instead of how they used to be used etc) .

And so, that type of ‘shift’ won’t move the Democrat to become non Liberal 2.0 to the right of Liberalism 2.0. Thus the Democrats will still be Liberal 2.0 and closer to being negative than positive in my eyes even if they make that pseudo shift to become the New Republican Party

The Democrats becoming the New Republican Party is happening, as the Democrat strategy is to 1) win REPUBLICAN voters, and 2) lose voters who have been loyal Democrats. Chuck Schumer said “For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin”

The Democrats and Republicans have the same benefactors. It's literally, for the billionth time,  the good cop bad cop routine

As I mentioned similarly elsewhere,  Republicans exist to be so facially evil that the people will settle for trash-tier neoliberal Democrats, and the Democrats exist in order to be ineffectual and only to maintain the status quo and keep warm the seats and then throw elections so the Republicans can swipe in and eat the bad PR for passing the horrible legislation they both truly want passed in the first place

The reason this is able to work is because everyone already understands they're cartoonishly evil while the Democrats have to mask it so they can be the placeholders when the people end up getting fed up with cartoonish evil for a bit and doing nada instead of actively destroying the country while feeling like we are making progress. I

It's a symbiotic relationship that is reliant on the Democrats losing elections. If Democrats kept winning every time ultimately they would be forced to do something good for once 

At the very least us leftists have to keep pressure on the government (like this article mentions) or they often never get around to things like releasing migrants from what some leftists claim are ‘racist concentration camps’ on the border

We have been stuck in this cycle of Democrat contradiction and creeping GOP fascism for 32 years. We have been stuck in the electoral farce, the slow decay after WWII and Communism forced the postwar consensus into place, for longer. No good person of history has ever fundamentally changed its course and Joe Biden to some is no different. 

I admit as a Bernie Sanders supporter, I give Joe Biden credit for at least trying to implement some of Bernie’s policies as President. I am pleased that Biden has been more Bernie Sanders like than Hillary Clinton would have been as President. But Biden is still an Anti Bernie Sanders politician who isn’ even close to being like Bernie Sanders and as Bernie Sanders supporters, we can do way better than Joe Biden

Though this article gives me hope that Joe Biden might really be the next best thing to Bernie Sanders as President. This is because article says that Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders meet in the middle and have defined and pragmatic common goals

If we really care about the border, the international conditions that created the border in its present form, or working class immigrants and citizens, then a grounded and systemic analysis is a must. Elections and politics are a reflection of conditions a lot more than they are an influence on them. 

Dual power is vital. State and Revolution, and also Imperialism, The Highest Stage Of Capitalism, speaks about all of this. Other leftists though have different solutions.

We both want to see an eventual end to the behavior of institutions such as ICE, including abolishing the socioeconomic systemic reasons for them.

So Joe Biden can't release people from what some leftists claim are ‘racist concentration camps’? That isn't a priority to him?

Joe Biden claims to be a Catholic. So are many of those we're immorally imprisoning and abusing.

Democrats have had years to "get it together", this stuff has been an issue since Barack Obama and Biden first built the cages. The fact he didn't have a plan and an EO on day 1 shows they don't rally care 

If we don't keep pressure on our government, we are culpable in the bad things they. I can't live with that

To people who claim that Joe Biden is a ‘lesser of two evils’, which Joe Biden is your favorite? The Joe Biden who was accused by Tara Reade of abuse?, war criminal Joe Biden?, or segregationist Joe Biden?"

If not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for Donald Trump, then not voting for Donald Trump is a vote for Joe Biden.

If Bernie Sanders tells me to vote for someone accused of abuse who touted his work with segregationists and who said that he would veto Medicare for All, then I'm going to tell Bernie to fuck off

Did Joe Biden release kids from cages since 2021? Nope. Read State and Revolution

If we decide to reject the lesser of two evils method, then we can use the Anti partyarchy method. Anti Partyarchy, is against pursuing libertarian ends through statist means, especially political parties (since Libertarians aren’t likely to win elections). 

Libertarianism is not an eternal or timeless thing. If you have an very well functioning government and politics, libertarian principles seem less relevant.

This Anti Lesser of Two evils method is to not support political engagement (i.e political party promotion) which can be a way to transition to a left wing society without having to settle for the lesser of two evil Democrats. 

If we choose to oppose electoral voting and political reform we can instead use alternative strategies outside of the political systems in order to achieve a free society. 

I feel that such a society could be freed more readily if we employ methods like education, direct action, mutual aide, alternative currencies, self sufficiency, civil disobedience ,entrepreneurship and counter economics.

I also support Deep Organizing, see here, here, here, here, here and here for background and how to do that . Also see this post for tangible steps we can take toward building a better tomorrow. This post is  primer on political strategy, which uses the great example of MLK Jr and African Americans during the Civil Rights movement (and a less SJW way to boycott too)

Black markets and counter economics could be one of the methods used to help us threaten the state authority and state capitalist class to usher in a true left wing society. This is because Capitalism is an exploitative system based on privilege backed by the State

As per Left Wing Free market Anarchist, Mutualism to usher in our left wing utopia, we could also build alternate institutions built , piece by piece replacing the statist, capitalist, society. This would be a gradualist approach to dismantling and replacing the state with new forms of social organization. 

Think of this as an alternative to non market based democratic socialism by synthesizing convergent movements, that would have began the siege and assault on the state and Liberalism 2.0. This would be a new ethic suited to the alliance of various ideas. 

Somewhere in this transition stage, all 6 monopolies would need to be abolished to go along with this Left Wing Free market Anarchist, Mutualist transition , as outlined here. These monopolies include the Agribusiness monopoly, the infrastructure monopoly, the utility monopoly, the security monopoly, regulatory protectionism, and the healthcare monopoly 

Using the existing market, producer and consumer cooperatives, small enterprises, mutual aid institutions, do-it-yourself collectives, community gardens, credit unions, etc would be initiated. These wouldn’t tend to directly conflict with Capitalist institutions. 

The state would also be influenced through pressure groups and lobbying. The main effort would be the creation of alternate institutions. At some point these would become strong enough to challenge the state.

I accept we live and breath ideology, and that as much as we can try to live out elements of a future anarchist society today, that it may also be valuable to take on long-term goals that involve well planned organizing.

The case for running spoiler candidates (see here)

I am trying to get the Democrats to move left by embracing Breadtube . See here and here (What's Wrong with Capitalism by Contrapoints), here (K Marx part 2 Capitalism's consequences by PhilosphyTube), here (Work (or, the 5 jobs I had before YouTube)  Philosophy Tube), here (Human Nature and Socialism by ThoughtSlime), here (Explaining stuff about Socialism that confuses you (WATCH THIS, L I B E R A L) - Socialism 101) , here (SOCIALISM: An In-Depth Explanation)

So yes I want the Democrat party to embrace Breadtube ideology to move them leftward. Breadtube is a popular social media collective

I am trying to get the Democrats to create a Breadtube caucus within the Democrat party and run Breadtube candidates for office. At minimum fund Breadtube and make it have an intergenerational reach within the Democrat party as Fox News and the Daily Wire has an intergenerational reach within the Republican party (which if we can get Breadtubers to have the incendiary potential of cynicism maybe they will grow and become more mainstream)

Breadtube is great at employing memes and theatrical ploys to counter right-wing narratives (like here). They go after the “tankies” who are engaged in secret “red-brown alliance” with right-wing extremists. See here, here,  here and here for more

After Democrats embrace Breadtube ideology they also should then embrace Vaushism (Vaush is a Breadtuber). Vaushism incorporates Marxism and Liberalism in a way that even more moderate Democrats can get behind or even support (like see here)

I like using this strategy to put unelectable MAGA candidates on the main election tickets so they can be easier to beat for the Democrats

Some leftists (not me) feel that Republicans in power is actually preferable to Democrats in power even if we discount the Liberalism 2.0 element of the Democrats. 

To them, with Democrats in power it softens the blows of big capital while promoting illusions among the working class. 

These leftists say that with a Republicans in power, they takes off the gloves, increasing exploitation and thus driving the mass movement towards anti capitalist conclusions. Basically left acceleration. Eventually we may have to do something drastic as this to create a truly Left Wing society .

Like get the root canal now (Republicans) instead of downing pain killers (Democrats) for years or decades. Democrats make us complacent but they are not left wing and we cannot keep settling for trash. We will never have a socialistic ,left wing egalitarian society if we do that, ever . Look at the USSR and the October Revolution for inspiration. 

So it is tempting to say “What difference would it truly make if Republicans become potus over anyone else? The policies are all decided by chase bank and the state apparatus anyhow. At least Republicans give us a freak show”.

But I am not down with that rationalization. What if a Republican potus starts a war based on lies? What if a Republican potus makes bad trade deals? What if a Republican potus spies on Americans without a warrant? What if a Republican potus uses the national security apparatus to spy on their political rivals? What if a Republican potus sticks the FBI on journalists who write unflattering pieces on them? 

What if a Republican potus doles out gazillions of dollars to Wall Street and Big Pharma?

Or maybe try this strategy for elections. If it's a swing state, keep the worst politicans out. If it's another state, do what you feel like.

I relate to the post American leftists who go hard on the Democrats or Liberal 2.0 side, as can be seen throughout my blogs. The Liberal 2.0s and even Liberal 2.0 leaning left in some countries is bad as fuck and I criticize them all of the time, since in my mind they are supposed to be better, to be the science, pro-people parties. 

Though, they're corrupt, incompetent dolts. The right... you just don't have expectations from anything from the right wing, so it comes without saying that there's not one thing that is nice about them. 

I can’t stand such republican-alike governments including the US’s Republican party, yet I attempt to be reasonable and admit if they happen to do something positive.

People like some more moderate post American leftists know their audience is filled with Trump supporters and seem to panders accordingly to that exclusively.

The media operate to sell, not to be champions of truth. Some of those more moderate post American leftists try to make a living like the rest of us, I'd say some moderate post American leftists are as honest as they get. Subverse with Emily is pretty focused on trying to report0 straight facts.

I empathize with Gen Zers mostly voting Democrat , like in the 2022 mid terms

Gen Zers are the first generation who has a true leftist or at least Liberal 2.0 lean leftist vision,(which I am by the way confident they will play a vital role in implementing as they become the majority) and them voting Democrat now, despite how crypto right wing , uniparty and New Republican party the Democrats are now ,is the first step toward that utopia. But……..work in progress 

Maybe Retiring All Government Employees (RAGE) and draining the state apparatus would be a good place to start (Chile’s Left says politicians shouldn’t be politicians for more than a few years as to keep things fresh). No one would direct this system, and barely anyone who participates in it says that it’s a system at all. 

I would support a Human rights party that is as big as the Democrat party and Republican party existing since if you are going to do human rights, a human rights party would be the best party to do so. 

I am open minded to supporting, in a Joseph of Arithmea type way politicians who are part of Peter Thiel’s New Right (i.e JD Vance, Blake Masters) . My reason would be they are as Anti Liberal 2.0 as I am and they have neat ideas

I would not believe that those type of Republicans who I vote for would be able to pass any of their right wing legislation that goes against my values since most Republicans who are socially like those Republicans are all talk and no action on getting their policies passed. 

If I had doubts about this for a second however, I would instead abstain from voting in said election

I was back and forth between Tim Ryan and New Right’s JD Vance in their 2022 Senate battle since August, but started to lean in the direction toward JD when the election was called for him. This article gives some good points on Vance

***DISCLAIMER*** I would only be a Joseph of Arithmea type supporter of Peter Thiel’s New Right if and only if I get the Republican Party to adopt, embrace and implement platform 2 in my takeover of the Republican party (where I move to the Republican party leftward)

This way I can create a sectarianism on the whole right (like between conservatives , right libertarians and Republicans) to by extension split Peter Thiel’s New Right/Post Liberal movement . 

This would be done by me to create a large variety of different strains of right wing thought that, can sadly lead to quite harsh disagreements between those that adhere to them. 

This would make the right wing as a whole have the same sectarianism that the left (including some left progressives but not including the Liberal 2.0)

This would thus make Peter Thiel’s New Right/Post Liberal movement move leftward and be as left of conservatives as Left Communism is left of Democratic Socialism or being as more libertarian of Republicans as Libertarian Socialism/Anarcho Communism is more libertarian of State Socialism/Marxism Leninism or being as distinct from right libertarianism as Mutualism and Left wing free market Anarchism are distinct of Maoism

Until this happens I don’t support in any way shape or form Peter Thiel’s New Right

The Liberalism 2.0 of the US will stop eventually, but it won’t “level out” so to speak. The pendulum will swing in the opposite direction (to the radical right). When that happens it is gonna look a lot worse than what we have now with Liberal 2.0ers

So I am trying to nudge the Liberal 2.0ers away from all the truly insane positions in order to avoid a mass populist uprising against liberalism 2.0

Can you picture how popular a Left wing or Left leaning movement would be if it just ditched the child mutilation, open borders, and anti-White rhetoric things? A Left wing or left leaning movement that reflects the interests of working families instead of billionaire weirdo tech oligarchs and hedge fund managers?

I am thinking what Tulsi Gabbard said here is base?  “I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms," At worst what she said wasn’t wrong or offensive. See more of my thoughts on this quote by her here

I apolitically symbolically and morally (as in moral victory) see the ‘US Color Revolution’ from 2020 as badass and a bold way to create something new . It was an effective revolution for the Democrats  

https://www.conservapedia.com/2020_Leftwing_insurrection. I like reading Conservapedia because I consider Conservapedia to be alternate history/fan fiction

I feel at times Libertarians are very oppressed in the US. People don’t realize there is Left Libertarians, Libertarian Marxists , Libertarian Communists and Libertarian Socialists. This is partly based off of the Libertarian lived experience

Libertarians are people too

The Libertarian Party especially the Mises caucus is cringe and bad to essentially encourage domination and control of power and richness by the bourgeoisie which they then wrongly pretend to act like crony capitalism and corporatism by caused by such acts. They are really about replacing our government tyranny with private tyranny.

The Mises Caucus wrongly wants to eliminate from the L.P.'s platform that they condemn bigotry which sounds rather pathetic, just basic biatch Republicans who smoke Marijuana

The Mises side showers are freaks for being into Confederate apologia (Ludwig was not a fan of former President Abraham Lincoln), for claiming that Augusto Pinochet was a libertarian and fellow traveler, and for quite loudly drawing a distinction between democracy and democracy like Hans-Herman Hoppe.(though I support some aspects of Hopperism)

A load of us people want to be left alone and we have a difficult time organizing. The only people who are involved in the Libertarian Party especially the Mises caucus actually wrongly want power.

The Mises cuckus take over the LP at the same time that the Republican Party appears to be on the verge of becoming what they have constantly actually desired. The libertarians who aren't all on board the social conservatism train lost their personal lil vanity vehicle.

I support decentralization—subsidiarity, secession (in ways that mesh with my blogs), nullification, and localism—for  political units completely down to the level of the individual as a moral end and as a method of expanding choice and competition in a state for all individuals. In some ways the State is not the same thing as governance

As a Libertarian socialist I support decentralized structures that are based on direct democracy and federal or confederal associations like citizens' assemblies, libertarian municipalism, trade unions and workers' councils. This can be seen throughout my blog

I am against the subordination of local political units to a central authority for social justice principles 

I talk about some ideological changes within the DSA in this post

I am against the Congress condemning Socialism in 2023.  The US has caused more atrocities in the US and abroad than nearly most socialist countries on Earth. The US has started imperialist, racist, warmongering neocon wars in the Middle East and Asia for over a century and has occupied and colonized lands in the Middle East, Asia and the US itself too

Shame on the Congress/Senate for such stupidity. Capitalism/Neoliberal is no better than Socialism or Communism.  I echo this article by Jacobin on this

At least they didn't condemn Mutualism/ Left Wing Free Market Anarchism, Social Democracy, Paternalistic Conservatism (since they never will do that) 

See here , here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

"During House floor debate on GOP's anti-socialism reso, Rep. @BradSherman accuses Republicans of equating "some of the greatest leaders of Israel" to "some of the greatest mass murderers of history." Puts up poster of Ben Gurion, Golda Meir & Shimon Peres who were socialists."

The government told you there were WMDs in Iraq. The government told you that if you liked your plan, you could keep your plan. The government told you Donald Trump would cause WW3. The government told you Trump was a Russian asset. 

The government told you 2 weeks to flatten the curve. The government told you that inflation was transitory. Now, the government is telling the people of East Palestine Ohio that there is no danger. The government can't be trusted. Though this might be a democracy issue

The water in East Palestine Ohio is not safe to drink no matter how much the government LIES and says it is. This video is proof it is unsafe and contaminated : https://twitter.com/i/status/1626327835668320256  Screenshots here  Also see here

As much as I am glad FEMA and the government stayed out of this Ohio spill for as long as they did (anti statist/Libertarian reasons), it is hypocritical that FEMA IGNORED AMERICANS AS LONG AS THEY DID IN OHIO BUT GIVES MILLIONS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

Blaming Donald Trump for the rail derailment in Ohio in nonsense. Trump had nothing to do with that derailment.  It is sickening that Democrats and Liberal 2.0ers literally blame Donald Trump for everything bad that happens. Hey @PeteButtigieg get a grip  See here