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@georgetakei Anyone followed the money on this? Doesn’t it smack of cowardly republican backers trying to find a way to keep republicans in power (without being seen as running against trump in the primary)?

@xi_timpin @georgetakei So do the bots.

@mehdi_benadel @georgetakei If leftists can't win primaries, how do you think they're going to win a general?

@textualdeviance @georgetakei they won't if you don't let them

@mehdi_benadel @georgetakei "Let" in what way? Surely you're not going to parrot Russian propaganda about stolen elections, right?

@textualdeviance @georgetakei you know there's a spectrum of thoughts between russian propaganda and US bipartisanship?

@mehdi_benadel That didn't answer my question. Who do you think is preventing lefty candidates from winning primaries and how? Details, please.

@textualdeviance your system and libertarian culture. You dismiss social politics as "communist and therefore bad" because your notion of fair is Christian. "Let the bully do harm, they will get punished one way or another (e.g. by fate/God or in the afterlife)". Well good luck with that.

@textualdeviance Blocking the elections to two parties is a false choice forcing you to never think about alternatives. It's a game capitalists have been playing for a while, telling you they offer you choice when they only offer you what they think is good (most of the time because it's good for them).

@textualdeviance And your election culture is contaminating the rest of the World, pushing France for instance into "either neoliberals or fascists" when they are actually to faces of the same coins : bullies that want a hierarchical order of classes.

@mehdi_benadel So in other words, you're just making shit up because you don't live here and don't understand how it works. Our system is fucked up, yes but that's a structural thing that we can't fix because we simply don't have the votes to do so. We are under minority rule because we don't have a super majority to fix it. That's not malfeasance. It's just numbers. And lefty candidates can't fix that any more than anyone else can.

@mehdi_benadel If you really want to know how America could work if we actually had the numbers for Democrats to be in charge, look at what individual states do when they have Democrat majorities in their state government. Here in WA, for instance, we finally flipped our state Senate in 2017, and since then we've done all sorts of progressive stuff like paid family leave and long-term care. But we can't do that nationwide because of the disproportionate représentation Republicans have.

@mehdi_benadel If you know of a way we can completely restructure our system of government without having a 65% majority in the Senate, by all means, let us know. But even if the entire Democrat contingent was far left, they still wouldn't have the power to override the minority rule that Republicans have.

@samalone @georgetakei Did you miss the memo? GOP has created a new political party: TRUMP aka Oligarchs.

And they're reforming our voting system, alright. Pretty soon they'll just install a skin color scanner at the polls and you better not have a tan if you want to vote.

Until we get a super majority Democratic Congress and president, there will be no voting system reform. No Civil Rights, women's rights, LGBTQ rights, or any other rights but White Nationalists racist rights. See #SCOTUS