Capitalism serves the interest of the capitalists. Those are the minority. The United States was founded on the rich, you know who owned slaves. My point is that there was never equality. Not when you committed genocide against the indigenous people as well. So history proves capitalism is a lie.
That said, elections are scams because as you pointed out there are no meaningful choices in the United States. Why is it that each year, no matter what happens, we end up with the same problems? Elections are rigged no matter who you vote for. Why are there so many wealthy people supporting Democrats if getting them elected would threaten their power? Likewise with conservatives.
We shouldn't think it is cold to dismiss human suffering, yet all our suffering is self inflicted by creating systems that benefit from human suffering. We have one planet to live on and capitalism is destroying it for short term profit. It has finite resources and we are using them faster than they are replenishing.
The Dems' betrayal of labor and abandonment of the New Deal coalition began under LBJ -
Civil rights and Vietnam were exploited by Nixon's Southern strategy and attacks on the hippies. That was the origin of both the culture wars and the beginning of Neoliberal political economy. Those cultural and political moments were consolidated and organized into a Strategy by the 1971 Powell Memo.
Nixon's "Southern Strategy" for Republicans was actually a failure in 1968, even though he won. George Wallace, a Democrat, won five of the Southern states. Republican Nixon won the Midwest and California in an electoral landslide.
In 1972 Nixon won 49 states.
In 1976 Democrat Jimmy Carter won fewer states than Republican Gerald Ford, but did win all Southern states.
So the mythical Republican Southern Strategy was done.
Capitalism serves the interest of the capitalists. Those are the minority. The United States was founded on the rich, you know who owned slaves. My point is that there was never equality. Not when you committed genocide against the indigenous people as well. So history proves capitalism is a lie.
That said, elections are scams because as you pointed out there are no meaningful choices in the United States. Why is it that each year, no matter what happens, we end up with the same problems? Elections are rigged no matter who you vote for. Why are there so many wealthy people supporting Democrats if getting them elected would threaten their power? Likewise with conservatives.
We shouldn't think it is cold to dismiss human suffering, yet all our suffering is self inflicted by creating systems that benefit from human suffering. We have one planet to live on and capitalism is destroying it for short term profit. It has finite resources and we are using them faster than they are replenishing.
A hundred years ago the Ds would get a tenth of the money of the Rs.
Labor and the Ds parted ways in 1994. Some say 1976.
The Dems' betrayal of labor and abandonment of the New Deal coalition began under LBJ -
Civil rights and Vietnam were exploited by Nixon's Southern strategy and attacks on the hippies. That was the origin of both the culture wars and the beginning of Neoliberal political economy. Those cultural and political moments were consolidated and organized into a Strategy by the 1971 Powell Memo.
And, as Caitlin says, here we are.
Nixon's "Southern Strategy" for Republicans was actually a failure in 1968, even though he won. George Wallace, a Democrat, won five of the Southern states. Republican Nixon won the Midwest and California in an electoral landslide.
In 1972 Nixon won 49 states.
In 1976 Democrat Jimmy Carter won fewer states than Republican Gerald Ford, but did win all Southern states.
So the mythical Republican Southern Strategy was done.
Seems to be working pretty well these days.