• newfie@lemmy.ml
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          2 hours ago

          Exploitation wearing a friendly mask

          Vs

          Exploitation wearing its true face

          Either way, the masses are exploited. A better alternative is possible

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      That’s not their purpose, they just need to look the part. They are comfortable in the ‘my hands are tied’ position. They can propose bills they know will not make it. When they have a supermajority, like they had not long ago, they are in trouble. They have no choice but to stop proposing bills and find reasons to say they are ‘sabotaged’. They played this game for centuries, still works.

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        8 hours ago

        They in this case being libs in liberal democracies, not democrats specifically.

        One way to resolve the contradiction between the capitalist class, which the state represents, and the masses, whom the state requires to maintain power is for the masses to believe their representatives want what’s best for them, but are powerless to implement it due to foreigners or nature or some other group, or are trying and it will happen some indeterminate time in the future.

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      10 hours ago

      They are not afraid of being wrong. They don’t actually care about your well being, they are just here to make money for their corporate friends and themselves.

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        That’s the thing, the left adhere themselves to unwritten rules and current precedences. Whereas the right will break all precedent and scoff at unwritten rules and will try to change the written ones in their favour. It happens everywhere, it’s not just a US thing