One of us! One of us!

you can call yourself what you want homie, but you're certainly not an anti-imperialist if you think we need to prioritize americans over others

That's fair, what good are decent domestic policies if US imperialism is still infecting the global south.

you wont even get those decent policies anyway if the capitalists spend your taxes on holding an empire together

As far as I’ve seen she hasn’t had an extremely favourable opinion on Islam throughout her political history, I may of exaggerated a little bit as I stated in that post it’s mainly because of her connections to Hindu fascists, She also danced around the edges of the whole ‘Muslim suspicion’ thing and republican talking points with Obama, not to forget she shat on him for not calling terrorists 'islamic'.

And again she’s quite hawkish on “terrorism” and has said before in the clip that posted that she is a hawk on terrorism, these are quite conservative takes on foreign policy from how I see it

If you wanna argue against any of this instead of being condescending you are welcome to

You right. Barbara Lee my #1 then.

the foreign policy stuff is one the main reasons i wish there was a viable leftist party in the US. Even if they didn't manage to win a presidency, it'd be nice to have a party who could at the least remind a politician as popular as bernie that he was once a principled socialist who called for abolishing the CIA and was stated he was against private enterprise on a national level

super tues boutta be a trip. bernie winning big tho. americans aren’t informed but they don’t like being told what to do. they see through the facade of the mainstream media

I'm coming out from lurking to say that taxes don't finance govt spending, that's a myth promoted in order to boost deregulatory policies.

but again, what does it mean to be "viable"? imperialism is a structural condition of capitalism and will inevitably exert its influence upon any deviation to the system. there's a place for legitimate socialists in the electoral system but becoming "viable" isn't it, at best they can expose the inherent flaws in the whole premise and reach the advanced sectors of the working class. but that's really it, eurocommunism was a massive failure and even these failures can't be replicated in the US, which has a different structural role in the global capitalist system than our european allies did in the mid 20th century.

people to think about why SYRIZA was able to win and why Corbyn and the Labour Party lost, or why electoral progressivism in Mexico and South Korea is possible while in most of the third world it simply becomes fascism.

What does then

The government doesn't need its own dollars to finance it's spending. Here's a quick breakdown, this is a lot of knowledge that was used in making the original new deal and is actually basic econ regardless of political push against it.

this is true but i mean thats why the only true end goal is to overthrow capitalism and replace it with communism ofc.

i guess im more just speaking to the short term, where at the least if we had a president who wasn't an imperialist and was pushed to the left by a socialist party in that regard and a socialist party that was reaching the advanced sectors of the working class, at least maybe we could see millions of people potentially shown an alternative to what we have.

but i do agree that in the end that anything that doesn't end with capitalism being destroyed is futile in the end.

people see historical figures like Olof Palme and think that Bernie or a similar "socialist" could potentially fill the same roll. but the USA isn't Sweden, both countries despite their similarities as imperialist nations had very different roles in global supply chains and their general proximity to existing socialism both spatially and temporally.

Thank you this was really interesting. Appreciate it!

Ofc, btw you might want to know that bernie's econ advisor is behind this video

Wow

saw bernie's victory speech tonight from 20 feet away
idk how it came off on TV but the energy in the room was unreal
there's no way this dude loses texas
i fervently believe he wins the whole thing now (as opposed to mostly believing it)
none of the other candidates got clout like this

did he really get 45+%?

It was your exaggeration of her stances. You think she’d drone strike gays and Muslims because she doesn’t like them? Lol

Imagine me saying Bernie wants to get rid of capitalism in all seriousness. That’s how I view comments like that.

Was w you until you said tulsi was better than warren

This is yr brain on bernie broism

Barbara lee
Stacy abrams
Liz warren

These are actual names tht hv been floated in the bernie camp

wow terrible picks homie

abrams is literally a bloomberg supporter who took bloomberg's billionaire money to fund her own campaign lol

There’s a good nyt article about this
These are the only reasonable options

There just arent tht many young female diverse progressive politicians w a ntl platform