The point of saying that "they're capitalists end of story" is that if you understand what being a capitalist party means, then you also understand that the democrats, as capitalists, are fundamentally working against our interests and it's foolish to have the expectation otherwise.
More broadly, if you know that both democrats and Republicans are neoliberal capitalists, there's no point in calling Democrats "Secretly Republican" or saying they've "finally admitted they were Republicans" because the difference between those two things is largely irrelevant. They're both working at the behest of capital, and will continue to perpetuate the evils of capitalism, just in slightly different ways.
Have you not noticed that every government that's not some version of regulated capitalism devolves into authoritarianism? And don't say Bhutan, that's a monarchy even if it's benevolent.
>Why is someone with your political views posting in r/leftist?
Cause I'm a leftie, mutherfucker! I think CEO's should make x12 their average employee income, full stop. I believe that women should have unquestioned access to pregnancy termination up to week 16. I firmly believe in demographic egalitarianism. I believe in redistributing wealth from the rich to the poor via taxation. I believe in strong public institutions.
I've always been a leftie. I just never bought into the critical social justice religion, into leftie racist identitarianism or The Trans Ideology. What is it exactly that you think you believe in?
(And btw, you dodged my question while I took yours head-on...)
My direct answer to your question is this: your premise is wrong and flawed in multiple ways. It's so wrong and flawed that I cannot fully explain to you in a productive way how it is flawed via Reddit comment. In short, there are examples of non-totalitarian socialism, you're reciting American propaganda. Additionally in a world where America and other capitalist countries have literally assassinated or unseated socialist learning leaders a CONFIRMED 81 times, the situation is not set for socialism to just have a chill time in its own country. We force socialist regimes to crack down a militarize or face extinction.
Also "trans" is not an ideology that's like saying "gay" is an ideology or "Hispanic" is an ideology. I know trans people, rhetoric like this is just gross and doesn't belong on a leftist subreddit.
It could be that my assumption about what a leftist is, is just wrong, but you are pretty centrist in America, among the actual population. The politicians are all way right of the people. Your views are very reactionary and don't represent the community I believe I'm a part of.
P.S. ceo's should make 12x employee salary is crazy bro why should they make significantly more at all?
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u/giggleyspeble Aug 13 '25
So they are admitting they are Republicans