New Progressive Caucus Chair Ready to 'Fight Billionaires, Grifters, and Republican Frauds' | Common Dreams
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The CPC elected as chair Rep. Greg Casar, who said that "the members of the Progressive Caucus know how to fight billionaires, grifters, and Republican frauds in Congress."
  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    21 days ago

    With the current voting system, no real restrictions on billionaire funding, and a complicit mainstream media… I don’t think we’re gonna get much from electoralism at this point, we’re kinda on our own. FDR didn’t have all these obstacles back in the day.

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      FDR didn’t have all these obstacles back in the day.

      Yes he did. The difference was that he had to respond in a way that satisfied a militant labor movement without going too far to disrupt the capitalist class. It was a fight up hill the entire way by working class union members.

      • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        21 days ago

        The wealth disparity is the same, but the populace and circumstances are a bit different:

        1. There was not a literal fascist propaganda news network brainwashing half the voter base (Fox news)
        2. There wasn’t a significant population which believed any ol conspiracy tossed at them
        3. His political opponents didn’t have a cult, comprised of anti-intellectuals
        4. We didn’t have an enemy state attempting to influence our elections (at least, not nearly on the same level)
        5. Had a serious left-leaning populist political opponent in Huey Long (before his assassination) preaching his Share the Wealth progam.

        I don’t disagree that it was a hard fight for the working class to even get that much, even without those externalities