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Paul Thronson's avatar

The problem for political talking heads is that while you are 100% correct, the message goes nowhere. Wolf PAC tried to do this and its a wall a million miles high. Corporations run this planet and they have since the Sullivan and Cromwell became the first international corporate law firm and immediately partnered with every fascist on the planet, allowing the truly influential Nazis a safe landing after the war. Fascism is the corporations ideal form of government only people don't like it much so it takes lots of chaos to implement. With Citizens United the US became a fascist state except nobody is willing to believe it.

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America's Undoing's avatar

I’ve given it a few shots too. I was a cofounder of both Justice Democrats and brand new Congress. I wouldn’t say that they didn’t work at all, but definitely they did not do what we intended. I still think there’s an opportunity for such a maneuver.

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Paul Thronson's avatar

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I'd love to hear it. I was a Bernie delegate from South Dakota in 2016 and helped organize his stops here and secured resources for a few state races when Bernie was getting beat up in the press for not supporting down ballot candidates. Nothing can get done in a political movement within the party. Every single meaningful leader is completely committed to military and corporate interests, and there is no way to oppose it. If you do, the Pentagon will publicly threaten removal of their bases from whatever state you are from, the media will paint you as a commie/fascist, academia will cancel you, and your own party will support the opposition candidate. This has all been repeatedly proven.

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America's Undoing's avatar

Which claims? That it's still possible?

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Paul Thronson's avatar

Exactly - you said you still think there is an opportunity (assume you meant to reform from within - maybe I read you wrong). But from my view, that has been proven false repeatedly.

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