Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
They are so cool
Oh it’s the person who said “you don’t want Russian communists in power either” yesterday and tried to argue that Russia is more fascist, imperialist and pro-Nazi than NATO/Ukraine.
How do libs like this still exist here after 2 years? America and NATO are the world hegemony, no other force is “just as imperialist” as them. NATO is composed originally of high-ranking Nazis from the German 3rd Reich and has done nothing but spread fascism throughout the world since then. Ukraine is run by Nazis top-to-bottom who have killed 14,000 ethnic Russians and leftists, including burning them alive in union halls, and these Nazis exert total military control. There is no comparison
Soc Dems, even Latin American ones, will always disappoint and turn out to be the leftwing of capital
It’s more like:
Dems: Labor aristocrats, international/financial bourgeoisie, proles stuck within Liberal ideology, managerial class, “creatives”, academics
Republics: Industrial/National bourgeoise, Petty bourgeoisie, alienated proles with confused reactionary ideologies, lumpens, self-employed “entrepreneurs” and the heavily religious
The system always has to artificially divide up proles against each other to survive, but the increasing polarization is happening due to a widening rift between the interests of the international/finance bourgies and the national/industrial bourgies, this rift is filtered down through proxy issues that the lower groups care about: LGBT rights, abortion, police brutality. The upper haute bourgies don’t actually care about any of these issues, but they cynically know their underlings do and use them to try and gain political and economic dominance against their bourgie rivals (they actually care more about imperialism, protectionism/free trade, taxes)
Yep American politicians all pretty much agree on our underlying fascist/neoliberal ideology (they are functionally the same thing to different degrees). What we are seeing is simply the recriminations of losers. When an elite class sees its power slipping away they start to turn on each other and eat each other for the shrinking scraps. The exact division lines among that elite class aren’t particularly relevant, it’s just how the recriminations happened to play out when there’s not enough abundant wealth to paper over all disagreements