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America must not surrender its Democratic values | Bernie Sanders (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 12 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There's not a whole hell of a lot that's new here, but it's important to remember that if you're not recognizing the country we've known, colonialist and imperialist as it's been over the years, you're not alone.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

why weren't we tearing down the government when Bush started bombing Iraqi kids or any of the many other times we did equally fucked up evil shit?

Many of us were, but leftists have to fight both the system and liberals defending it. One of the biggest issues with liberals is they don't want to tear down systems like white supremacy, they want to rework it into something they are comfortable with.

progress takes time

In the words of James Baldwin 'how much time do you want for your progress? '

Democrat incrementalism in reality has been incremental fascism.

Liberals are dying to infighting bro

Let the party die