• Богданова
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    The way I see things pan out is Democrats will use this as a sort of “Return to justice!” moment. Their goal is to make Americans happy, while abusing other countries.

    However, because of the growing resistance and the decline of their power which allows them to exercise imperialism, they will be forced to resort to expand internally. This is the nightmare scenario for Democrats imo.

    Them being in office and having to openly do the job of GOP. because it’s the only way for them to retain their power. Once they’re no longer capable of doing the good cop, bad cop, that’s going to be the beginning to the end for USA.

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      Precisely, capitalism in the US has reached the stage where fascism is the only way for the system to continue to function. So, dems can no longer play their usual games and have to start to openly implementing fascist policies with any pretense of democracy being abandoned.

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      Them being in office and having to openly do the job of GOP.

      But they basically do this already. They already do genocide, mass deportations, passively allowing abortion bans, etc. while just claiming they’re the good cop even though the claim is nonsensical.

      I’m honestly not sure how much “more” they can be forced into this…

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        Except it’s not.

        The Dems do the GOP’s job, yes, but they do it quietly and without ceremony where the GOP loudly proclaims it from the rooftops.

        But the Dems are having a much harder time doing this as things get worse. There will come a moment within the near future when they can no longer pretend they’re the “good guys” because the average person isn’t going to fall for it anymore. There will be no return to normalcy.

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          Given what the average person has fallen for to-date, I don’t share your optimism on this. Democrats openly and explicitly supported an ongoing genocide last election, I fail to see how much further there is to fall.

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            Except they weren’t open about it. That’s why so many people abandoned them in the election: they refused to admit a genocide was happening, lied about trying to stop it, and pretended it was all just anti-terrorism.

            And people did not fall for it. The smoke cleared and the mirrors shattered - just enough that Harris lost millions of the same voters Biden won with.

            People are waking up; it’s just slower than we’d like.

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        while just claiming they’re the good cop

        I’m not sure what you mean here. Good cop is when someone is pretending to be good. Their inability to keep appearances is what I’m getting at here.

        There’s a reason why Black Panther party has been historically the most radical party. Other groups were less oppressed than them and that privilege, what kept those others from radicalizing, has been getting weaker and weaker over time. Sometimes going up temporarily and then crashing back down.