• thorbot@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s because for us actual people it’s not getting better, everything is expensive as shit. Politicians are living in a different universe

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      1 year ago

      Most politicians are capitalists. Most citizenry are just resources. It’s why we need more politicians worth under a million like AOC and the like. That’s why the progressive “extremists” seem so out of place with the established politicians (even Democrats). Our entire economy is based on something far removed from the actual citizenry. But US Americans keep saying they want “moderates” for some reason.

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        1 year ago

        Americans have been trained into thinking that anything two steps to the left of, “hunting the homeless for sport” is “extreme” and “radical”, and those are scary. We also have “communism” and “socialism” as thought terminating cliches. They don’t actually mean anything, but once a pol says them people can turn off all their higher brain functions and run “frothing rage”.

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        1 year ago

        The States could absolutely do with a bunch more progressives but not AOC. Shes a horrible example of a good progressive.