He’s the leftwing outsider who nearly became the Democrats’ candidate for president - twice. As his position on the Israel-Gaza war threatens to upset his support, the veteran senator says he’s tired but determined to fight the return of that ‘ bitter, humiliated man’
  • ZMoney@lemmy.world
    01·
    9 months ago

    They’ve been saying this every election. This line is the norm now. There never was much of a democracy.

  • Alsephina@lemmy.mlEnglish
    01·
    9 months ago

    I like the insinuation that the US is an actual “democracy” lmao

      • Alsephina@lemmy.mlEnglish
        01·
        9 months ago

        It never was, or was ever meant to be, an actual “democracy”. Imperial core countries’ political systems only serve to protect capital and imperialism, with a thin veneer of “democracy” to discourage uprising and two parties to divide the working class.