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Which one, "left"?

You're not wrong but you also aren't saying anything.

They stopped trying to be "big tent" when they started courting Republicans instead of their own voting bases.

You'll be blue in the face 'til the end of time, 'cuz you're still trying to blame the electorate for the failures of the party. Your conception of how voting works is so backwards you think that the party is owed the allegiance of the people rather than the people being owed the faithful representation of their interests regardless of who is in power.

"The Democrats can't fail, they can only be failed!" That's you. That's what you sound like.

Inseperability. Codependence. A lack of notable distinction.

Y'know, like how our "two" major parties are the opposite faces of the same capitalist coin.

What does that have to do with anything?

It disproves your BS.

He's a member of the right-wing monoparty, isn't he?

He was an independent, switching his allegiance to the monoparty didn't help him win any federal elections.

You can't be an independent if there are no parties to be independent from.

You seem to have very suddenly switched from accepting the reality of the American monoparty to suggesting that no parties exist at all. Are you sure you're arguing in good faith?

Why is Bernie Sanders such an ultra-capitalist far-right Republican?

He isn't, that's why he's not president right now.

I would like an explanation for this because I didn't realize he was, but your own logic says he is.

You've never discussed my logic, you jumped straight from "American political parties only pretend to be separate entities" to "America's most famous center-left social democrat is actually a right-wing ultraconservative" as if making the latter claim would disprove the former.

And that is a deeply deeply undemocratic thing to say.

Of course it is, America's "democracy" is deliberately undemocratic.

You're taking away all agency from the voters.

The parties did that from the moment they got to start picking their voters rather than the other way around.

In what you're saying, voters are completely unable to understand anything and are led by elites against their own will. This is how Putin, Hitler, Xi think about their subjects.

You forgot to mention Trump in that list as well, and it doesn't matter whether the voters understand anything or not. The people who get to make the choices did so long before the voters were brought in to legitimize the government.

There is manipulation, without any doubt, but every single voter in a free country, like the US, has the ability to see through that.

I wish I could still have that much faith in the intelligence of Americans, lol~.

I'm German, and the "We didn't know of anything!!!" quote of the willfully ignorant Germans 80 years ago is infamous here.

I'm American, and the epitaph of the country I was born in will be "Thoughts and Prayers".

Drones can't search houses for contraband or arrest dissidents.

If Trump starts blowing up whole neighborhoods in search of insurgents he's just going to manufacture more insurgents.

Tell me if there will be any Republicans left to vote after Trump goes full Blair Mountain on the 60% right-wing Teamsters that refuse to cross a picket line.

There's a reason why America stopped doing conscription during Vietnam. Turns out that 90% of folks can't be trained to willingly shoot people and a large fraction of the remainder would sooner shoot their own commanding officer than some poor foreign kid.

I'm not discounting that, but if you were disabled or on a fixed income then that one month's living expenses might be the biggest windfall you've had in decades.

There's a reason why the Democrat superdelegates refused to nominate the most popular American politician in 2015.