Your purity makes you ineffective and useless.
Comment on Bernie Sanders: Is there a path to remove big money from politics? Goddamn right there is!
ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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)
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
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.