I don't know how so many people are still falling for this. Sure, the Iranian government isn't exactly "good", but they're the only major counterbalance to the genocidal Nazi imperialists that's left in the region.
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Sure, but perceived volume of people on the internet isn't necessarily indicative of real life, and I would hazard a guess that a lot of the people boycotting were in safe blue ridings.
The thing is, I don't think it's so much that they see a progressive platform as a risk. I won't say that isn't part of it, but the main thing is they really, really don't want to implement progressive policies. It's anathema to them ideologically, at least for the true believers. More important, it would lose their major donors money, and therefore would lose them money as their donors went over to the Republicans.
As tho why progressives should in general (upcoming elections are arguable of course, given the situation) withhold their votes from the Democrats, it's because it's the only leverage they have. As long as the Democrats can win without offering people anything, they won't offer anything.
The law only exists so far as it is enforced. Who will enforce the law against the state? Political power grows out the barrel of a gun.
Nothing is forever, even cold November rain
Nothing is forever, even cold November rain
To be America's enemy is dangerous. To be america's friend is fatal.
God, I would hate if my country exercised power over entrepreneurs and private companies. It would suck so bad. If my government did anything to curb the power of business, I would kill myself.
Is there a German compound word for chuck chair? Cuckstuhl?
If America and Israel were supporting protests in hell, I would have no choice but to support the devil
Hell, they already had us, and we just didn't know it. Every western country was in lockstep with the US, especially in foreign policy. Now the US has decided that soft power is woke, and everyone has to publicly submit to them. This could at least offer us an opportunity to break free, though the odds could be better.
I would take either, but we have neither. Carney is a progressive conservative.
The rest of the "democratic" world supported Israel as they bombed Gaza to rubble, and supported America in basically every murderous invasion and regime change of the last 80 years, right up until America threatened to take Greenland - suddenly it's different if America comes for someone in the club. All the "democratic west" amounts to is a few rich countries run by rich pedophiles, but God forbid we do business with big bad China, right?