inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 5 days agoBernie Sanders blames election loss on Kamala Harris choosing billionaires over the working classwww.the-independent.comexternal-linkmessage-square280linkfedilinkarrow-up11.38Karrow-down129
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minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up75arrow-down1·5 days ago“The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.” - Julius Nyerere “ The United States effectively has a one-party system, the business party, with two factions, Republicans and Democrats.” - Noam Chomsky People have been saying it for decades and decades, if not a century or more.
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·5 days agoThanks for that … now I have credible references to attribute this thought. I knew it wasn’t smart enough to think this, it’s just haven’t read enough to know or see where others have said it before.
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up31·5 days agoDon’t be so down on yourself, you can get to the same conclusion independently
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·5 days agoBut I do recommend reading Chomsky. Or at least watching some lengthy YouTube videos of him speaking
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·5 days agoI do watch and listen to a lot of Chomsky … but the guy has so much content, you’d have to relive his entire life to hear everything he said and read everything he ever wrote. The man is amazing. I just wish he were a lot younger than he is.
minus-squaretartaruga@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up10·4 days agoIt’s all just a form of “divide and conquer.” Their tactics are plain to see if you are looking for them.
“The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.” - Julius Nyerere
“ The United States effectively has a one-party system, the business party, with two factions, Republicans and Democrats.” - Noam Chomsky
People have been saying it for decades and decades, if not a century or more.
Thanks for that … now I have credible references to attribute this thought.
I knew it wasn’t smart enough to think this, it’s just haven’t read enough to know or see where others have said it before.
Don’t be so down on yourself, you can get to the same conclusion independently
But I do recommend reading Chomsky. Or at least watching some lengthy YouTube videos of him speaking
I do watch and listen to a lot of Chomsky … but the guy has so much content, you’d have to relive his entire life to hear everything he said and read everything he ever wrote. The man is amazing. I just wish he were a lot younger than he is.
It’s all just a form of “divide and conquer.” Their tactics are plain to see if you are looking for them.