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Themes covered · 3
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- 2 Flawed Economics & Corporate Servitude Critics say Democrats answer to corporate donors before working people, so their populist promises sound empty. Most of this case comes from the Far Left.
- 1 Structural & Systemic Disadvantages A small group of mostly academic voices argues that the Electoral College, long campaigns and the electoral map limit what any Democratic campaign can do.
- 1 Flawed Economic Paradigm & MMT Critique One Far Left channel, Real Progressives, argues that Democrats lose policy fights by accepting that every program must be paid for with taxes.
Quotes · 2
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The Democratic administration under President Biden employs mainstream neoclassical economists who are fundamentally ignorant of how money and the economy function, instead serving corporate interests rather than the public.
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"If you saw the movie Finding the Money, you got to see Biden's economist just make an absolute ass of himself being asked, "Well, how does money come to be?" Oh, he just babbled away. So, you know that they don't know a god blessed thing about economics. They know how to …"
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The Democratic party is failing by participating in and legitimizing an electoral system that is inherently oligarchic and easily manipulated by the wealthy, rather than advocating for fundamental structural reforms like sortition (random selection of legislators).
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"Aristotle one of the things he said in politics is that systems that rely on elections he actually called them oligarchies because elections are very easy to manipulate and control by the rich and I think if you need any other evidence of that you haven't been paying attention to what's been happening in America over the past few months so I actually propose a different kind of structure in the government where members to a unicameal legislature are selected through so I changed the method of selection. There's no more elections. It's just a random lottery of citizens."
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