radius777
radius777's JournalIt's the economy, stupid.
The federal gov't is the largest employer, and cutting of so many good jobs is going to harm the economy and gov't efficiency (ironically named Doge is about chaos, not efficiency) that is going to harm society overall.
Once the economy starts tanking - unemployment, inflation going up, housing and healthcare more expensive, the free world/NATO weakened - we could see a blue tsunami of the likes that happened from 2006 to 2008.
You forgot Mehdi Hassan, who was fired over telling the truth
about Gaza. There's a certain element (even on the left) that doesn't like outspoken PoC, which is a major problem to me as the Dem base is increasingly non-white and younger. Polls show clearly that most Dem voters view the Gaza situation much more like Mehdi does - thus he should be someone the network should want on the air.
Hakeem and Chuck are decent and good men - the problem is
we don't live in decent and good times. They're just too nice and playing by the old standards - basically Merrick Garland types. Dems only did good when we had people like Pelosi and Reid, who were sharper and tougher when dealing with the R snakes.
Yanukovich was the puppet. Poroshenko was the first non-puppet,
elected in 2014. Zelenskyy came after, elected in 2019.
The Revolution of Dignity also known as the Maidan Revolution or the Ukrainian Revolution, took place in Ukraine in February 2014 at the end of the Euromaidan protests, when deadly clashes between protesters and state forces in the capital Kyiv culminated in the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych, the return to the 2004 Constitution of Ukraine, and the outbreak of the 2014 Russo-Ukrainian War.
In November 2013, a wave of large-scale protests known as "Euromaidan" began in response to President Yanukovych's decision not to sign a political association and free trade agreement with the European Union (EU), instead choosing closer ties to Russia. Euromaidan soon developed into the largest democratic mass movement in Europe since 1989.
But yeah - Russia's aggression is all about the fact that Ukraine refused to be a puppet state and wanted to face West. Similar uprisings happened in Georgia(2008), Belarus (2020) etc - but Putin was able to put those down. Ukraine is the first time any of these democratic uprisings 'worked' - that's what scares Putin so. Note that Western intelligence agencies were involved in facilitating the Maidan Revolution - as they should have been.
Zelenskyy is a true patriot
who easily run away from all of this, yet has chosen to stay and fight, refusing to see his people (and their identity and culture) be erased.
"You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise."
-Maya Angelou
Agree. Ukraine should've been in NATO a long time ago.
Both Georgia and Ukraine wanted to be in NATO but both were denied in order to appease Russia - yet both were still attacked, while the countries that did get into NATO (most above Russia's objections) have never been attacked. IOW, NATO works as intended.
The west was far too soft on Russia when it lost the cold war - that's the lesson of the past 33 years. Losers should never dictate the terms, and that's just what we allowed Russia and Putin to do.
Ukrainians and the other Slavic peoples
have always been viewed by Russians as inferior to, and subservient of Mother Russia - that's what drives them to do this, they view the Russian empire as a Slavic caste system with Russians on top.
Trumpism is clearly driven by some combination
of white supremacy and white victimhood. 'They're ripping us off' is how Trump thinks about everything, always feeling that an undeserving 'other' is getting one over on him.
+1. Our society is overly tied to the stock market.
Even if campaign donations were better limited politicians would still act in favor of big business, in order to keep the market going up which voters ultimately want. I don't fault people for investing, but as long as our fates are so tied to the market, then the market will get what it wants, which is often unethical and ugly policies that mostly benefit the rich.
+1. The New Deal coalition was held in place by Jim Crow,
and only became viewed as socialism once non-whites were included in the policies.
Many union whites are conservative and voted for Trump. Many of the blue collar macho guys that our politics fixates on make a top salary and live in the suburbs. That fixation doesn't help us win over those voters and only alienates many working class white collar workers, PoC, young people and women, many of whom are struggling to get by.
We still need to appeal to white voters, but we need to be real about who the true working class is.
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