yes, the radicalization of the left has been one of the biggest detriments to progress in the last 15 years.

I haven't. I read an excerpt from it just now and I don't like the framing from first impression (probably because it gave me socialism = bad. Although I'd imagine it's more socialism for the elites and individualism for the rest.) but the subject of the book seems to be something I would be interested in.

Given history not only does the pendulum swing but intensity of swings tends to ramp up then ramp down as well. so this swing right was fairly hard, but that suggest there's a fairly hard left swing looming. for all of the GOP talk about how "dems wont learn their lessons" they will. likely by abandoning most of the social issues as their core platform and finally focusing on class warfare issues. could be the phase where we finally see socialized medicine, maybe a progressive taxation system.

If this were to happen the Democrats would need to weed out all the rotten roots. The Pelosi and Clintons of their party. I think it's more likely they could appeal to class warfare issues but do nothing to engage/repair it.

But personally, I do not think the Democrats will learn their lesson. Part of the reason I think this is because I see Democrats and Democratic voters acting and saying the same things that ruined the party in the first place. Throwing leftists under the bus. Making everything about identity politics. Blaming Trump for everything, even on policies they literally DID THEMSELVES.

10 years of Antifa running riot, 10 years of BLM running riot, and the MSM and left have been running cover for them the entire time.

Hundreds of billions worth of weapons + cash given in a proxy war without any declaration of war by Congress, or real justification how it's even a US problem.

The left side of the political aisle spending the last 4 years attempting to demonize 70 million+ Trump supporters simply for supporting Trump.

Radicalization? Today? No, not worried in the slightest. Nothing is worse today than any other time in the last 10 years, from a radicalization standpoint.

If anything, it's MUCH better, as we don't currently have a radicalized DoJ. *shrug*

Its like 100 pages, easy to read, and considered a Baby's First Red Pill on how society is controlled by capitalists.
If you don't like the book, I can summarily throw all of your opinions in the trash as that of an unrepentant shill.
I liked the book so much, I read over 4000 pages of Western Technology Transfers To The Soviet Union, by Anthony C. Sutton and the Hoover institute.
The footnotes in the 3 volume book are remarkable, of all its pages the only organic innovation accredited to Russia, was in the field of Helicopters, and Vulcanizing Rubber.
Everything else was transferred with US State Department approval to the Soviet Union to make them look like a formidable, and scary enemy.

Nah. any time a massive social program is given to the masses it opens countless opportunities for corrupt people to profit from it. most of the corrupt politicians aren't corporations, so could happily tax corporations more. and they can find lots of ways to profit from socialized medicine. they're just busy atm profiting off other industries like computer parts and military manufacturers.

If it's anything like Ayn Rand then I will hate it. If it's not just contrived like her work and more grounded in reality (the irony of realism not lost here) I could probably get into it.

We've already gone through the hard left swing, they're now forced to moderate

This post was edited by El1te on Feb 21 2025 02:26pm

if u think the biden term was the hard left swing you're a fool. its more realistic to say canada under JT was it's "hard left swing". the hard left swing coming in the USA will be massive.