Democrats should run a scorched-earth message on the media environment!

[Wilhelm44]

5 hours ago, Cred said:

I'm not advocating for defeatism, I'm advocating for marxist-leninist organizing instead of putting hope into the democrats.

The problem with the democrats is that no matter how nice and cool they sometimes seem, they are still pro free market and don't realize that the free market is what birthed Trump and will ensure that they will always be people like Trump and Epstein as long as the American dream is intact.

No system, no matter how idealistic, will prevent monsters from rising to the surface.  Switching systems wont solve the human condition. Communism also produced it's fair share of monsters.

[zazen]

Countries are usually in tension with:

- constraining (abuses of power ie corruption of private interests capturing national interest)

- coordinating (state capacity to collectively execute on shared goals and a vision)

- correcting (mistakes through feedback, adjusting / aligning incentives).

Whatever system best balances constraints, coordination and correction works - not the simplistic binary of democracy vs authoritarian.

Communism went hard on constraining private capital. It centralised coordination (in the state) but erased the correction mechanism of pricing signals and human incentives. China overcame this by not centrally planning and micromanaging the economy but instead directing and disciplining it - it has a market economy but isn’t owned by the market or private capital. Clear hierarchy exists where the state remains sovereign over the market and capital. The tricky part remains constraining the state itself to remain disciplined. 

The West went hard on constraining the state. There came a disdain and suspicion of power and authority due to past abuses of formal power (feudalism, kings). What emerged was structural (a system of checks and balances) and cultural (enlightenment philosophy emphasising individual liberty). Formal state power was constrained to prevent tyranny, but informal private power of the individual wasn’t to the same  degree. Formal authority became fragmented and sluggish enough that no actor can discipline informal power fast enough.

Informal power now works to steer the state to its benefit rather than align to it - clear hierarchy doesn’t exist because the centre (state) is weak. Hence we have a “deep state” permanent blob of private groups (factions) with overlapping interests using or skirting the state for their own ends.

Any state action that attempts to check, discipline or direct private individuals or capital is seen as a slippery slope to tyranny as a liberal / libertarian reflex. Liberalism fails to protect itself from private domination of oligarchic capital, corporate and intelligence elites - because it succeeded in protecting itself from the state being able to dominate. It optimized to prevent tyranny by distributing formal powers, which strengthened constraints on formal abuse but weakened state capacity to constrain informal abuse.

The West is feeling disoriented because there’s no clear visible tyranny (of a state dictator) but also no clear hierarchy of a sovereign state that feels trusted enough to protect citizens interests against private interests dominating. Progressive libs railing against hierarchy actually need a hierarchy that isn’t predatory but protective.

Communism ate itself through overcentralising what should have been PARTIALLY left to the market of individuals - neo-liberalism hollows itself through over diffusing power and responsibility, assuming free individuals and markets self correct without state authority to intervene.

The West lacks coordination to be productive and competitive against rising global players who are able to coordinate better and faster (China) and lacks the ability to constrain informal power of private capital interests that don’t care for national interests. Checks and balances to prevent tyranny now get in the way of coordination and execution speed - by the time something is decided the conditions are already different.

Communism feared and crushed capital = bureaucracy dominated. Neoliberalism / liberalism feared the state and fragmented it  = allowing for capital to dominate more easily. Both are overcorrections from prior abuse. Balance would be a state strong enough to discipline capital, but constrained enough not to dominate society. That constraint can come from structure but also culture. 

Cultures producing quality people can make even crappy systems work compared to better systems with lower quality people running them. Culture and structure both matter ie ground up vs top down. Perhaps even better to have a system that selects for the best quality to rise to the top through meritocratic filtering (rather than a popularity contest) ie discernocarcy - those with discernment govern.  Whilst simultaneously having a wider culture raising the quality of the general population through good values and virtues. The right culture doesn’t need to get rid of hierarchy or structure but humanises and nurtures it towards better outcomes.

[Cred]

On 27/02/2026 at 7:55 PM, Wilhelm44 said:

No system, no matter how idealistic, will prevent monsters from rising to the surface.  Switching systems wont solve the human condition. Communism also produced it's fair share of monsters.

The notion that "power corrups necessarily" is a deepity contructed by the controlled "left". It's not true.

If someone has has written multiple volumes on marxist theory, they are already more capable leaders than every leader that has ever existed in capitalist countries. This is the case for Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Kim Il Sung, Xi Jin Ping. 

The reason is, if someone is so concerned with theory, the chances are high, that they don't care about ideology and only care about truth. These are the people who are not corrupted, even when they recieve absolute ideological power.

[Cred]

On 04/03/2026 at 11:25 AM, zazen said:

Communism ate itself through overcentralising what should have been PARTIALLY left to the market of individuals

I agree with this. However it needs to be noted that any time you make any deals with the bourgeoisie, you risk them stabbing you in the back. When every oligarch in the world is in prison, having their assets taken or dead, then the people can finally live in peace and freedom.

[Cred]

On 04/03/2026 at 11:25 AM, zazen said:

Cultures producing quality people can make even crappy systems work compared to better systems with lower quality people running them

You can have a nation of self actualized people and the nation is still dogshit if the interest of the capital is above the interst of the people

[Elliott]

 

Kansas is a battleground state now

GOP PAC set to invest $14M in tight Kansas Senate race

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6129513-slf-spends-kansas-senate/amp/

 

 

 

 

Trump could really be a blessing in a way, he swung the pendulum so hard to (R)etard that we could get enough power to enact reforms that effectively keep republicans out of power forever. If we get enough Senate seats all we have to do is create a few more states and then it's over for republicans.

 

 

Edited October 5 by Elliott

[Elliott]

Democrat leading Iowa governors race

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https://www.cnn.com

Ohio, Iowa now in play for the Democrats, CNN polls show | CNN Politics

1 day ago — In both states, Democrats lead in the race for governor among likely voters. Democrat Rob Sand leads Republican Zach Lahn in Iowa by 9 points,

 

[Elliott]

 

 

Here's a 2015 map of the most partisan states, Kansas is a toss up now

Edited Saturday at 04:39 PM by Elliott

[Rafael Thundercat]

On 16/02/2026 at 10:50 PM, Hardkill said:

With the Democratic aligned media environment having become so outgunned by both the right-wing media and the legacy media, the entire Democratic party should do a major war on misinformation.

They should constantly call out the mainstream media for their bothsideism and excoriate Fox News and every right-wing media outlet out there for all their lies and devilry.

Every Democratic candidate for every election should say that the right-wing media has always been out to get them and everyone who is not as far to the right as they are. 

They should say that Fox News, Breitbart, the Daily Wire, Turning Point USA, InfoWars, and what have you have been run by Neo-Nazis, secret members of the KKK, and all other kinds of White Supremacists who want to take over the country with their radical right-wing agenda.

They should run on suing and cleansing all right-wing outlets non-stop when they gain enough power.

The Democratic aligned activists should generate mass protests at every right-wing media company headquarter IRL and have pickets saying that "Truth Not Tyranny!"

They all should talk about how the mainstream media and no longer really cares about democracy, no longer really cares about your freedoms, no longer really cares about the welfare of the people. 

Some of you may think that what I am saying is crazy and goes against freedom speech and democracy. Well, Trump and his party already have been threatening both the legacy media and every Democratic aligned media ecosystem.

Democrats gotta stop worrying too much about offending anyone and protecting norms because it's not working and the system is already getting fucked!

This is now war. So, Democrats need to fight fire with fire!

Well, as far as I understand from reading some people the case is the Left have a problem of self interest conflict. 

Read this and tell me what you think:

A text from Working People's Liberation Corps
" Everyone on the American left is too scared to act, and has too much ego to admit it: Our analysis on the lack of revolution in America
We're too scared to act:
We know the typical response of treating any groups violent reaction to state violence and oppression as equal to that same state violence is a means to psychologically boxing people into only non violent tactics. But internally for each American leftist there is a fear that manifests in different ways. For the liberals, progressives,soc dems and dem socs it's a fear of losing their precious imperial crumbs, or having their illusion of a stable democracy broken, or just a general fear of having to do anything other than show up to vote every couple of years; usually a combination of multiple of these factors if not all. For the compatibile socialists, trotskyist, anarchists and left coms, it's a fear of doing anything that might actually require them to put the books they've read into practice and commit to real revolutionary effort. They fear the consequences of any real radical action. But these fears aren't exclusive to each group as they often overlap.
How do we see these fears manifest:
These fears manifest in different ways but can also very easily overlap. Electoralist cope and celebrity worship for politicians is one way we see this happen. Condemnation of any violence at a protest toward violent cops can be another. Running imperial apologia which is often an area of overlap among different types of leftists. Criticism of actually existing socialism, another example we often see, as a way to maintain your status as a "socialist" while signaling to the state you pose no true threat. And on the streets we see this as bystander effect. Thousands of people easily showing up for a peaceful march, but only a few hundred showing up to try to stop ice from kidnapping a man they just shot from a hospital. And only a few dozen of those hundred having the courage to physically battle the cops. People doing rapid response just screaming at ice agents and filming instead of de-arresting the people they are kidnapping. Leftists of any flavor are scared of the consequences of any truly revolutionary action, even tho many of us have nothing or close to nothing left to lose at this point.
Our ego is killing any true base building:
Everyone has the to be the one to lead the revolution. Everyone has to be right about their interpretation of the theory. Everyone has to be right about their method of how we do this. And this is why we can't even connect the networks we have built and already exist. Social media and a bit of digging across various leftist organizing efforts will help anyone realize we have many of the networks and communities we need to begin forming a truly united front against capitalism. But these networks are silo'd from each other largely because of the egos of those who lead these efforts. Some have tried and there are some others like the black panthers, the panther party, united against the elites, people's core, and general strike us that are trying to build these connections for the communities, but they cant do it alone. If leftists combined their efforts instead of feeling the need to always be the hero, we would have a good start on the interconnected networks we'd need to survive even just a general strike.
Our need for a hero has lead us to follow the wrong people:
From people somehow still thinking mamdani hasn't betrayed his promises from the campaign trail, to people who still think a 501c organization will lead us to revolution, the need for a hero is crippling us. Even leaders in this movement still running cope for Mamdani, or trying to put the socialist label on Abdul el-Sayed even though he's said clearly he was a a capitalist, can't seem to let go of this need for a hero. Good comrades still trying to get radical results from 501c organizations that get their legal status from the same state they claim to be trying to dismantle, cant let go of the idea that our current institutions can be reformed and can save us. They cant see all politicians under capitalism are beholden to it and its ruling ideas, no matter the revolutionary language they use. All 501c organizations are beholden to the state apparatus which grants it that status, thus will never truly take steps outside that apparatus to end it. We must realize that only we the people can do what needs to be done.
There's no easy answers, but we must do better:
We have the duty as residents of the imperial core to work from within to topple it. As late stage capitalism speeds ramps us to climate collapse and mass genocide, we have to understand that if we don't act, we and future generations won't have a planet to enjoy. No amount of loss of our comforts or crumbs of imperial plunder are worth the hardships and pain future generations will have to endure. We must see the ruling class feeds on our fear and plays our egos against each other hoping to keep us from coming together to stop the machine that is capitalism once and for all. The sooner we stop being scared of our collective power, and stop letting our need to always be right and be recognized hamper us from working together, the sooner we can all watch these pedos swing in the wind together. And we know revolution takes a long time, but the black panthers began the work we must now finish 60 years ago. The revolution is overdue friends. You truly have nothing to lose but your chains comrades, so stand together and shake them off!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!