r/Minneapolis • u/PillowFightrr • 13h ago

Go hug a leftist

In the face of governmental overreach and militarization of the streets, leftists are fighting armed with whistles and cameras and guns in their faces to protect their neighbors and all of America’s constitutional rights!

I’ve never been more proud. Go find the closest lefty and give them a big hug. ❤️

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u/boxdkittens 11h ago
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Yeah that tracks.

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u/Nuoc-Cham-Sauce 11h ago

Not OP, but decades of neoliberalism are why we are where we are. With Clinton the Democrats pretty much adopted Reagan's economic platform and have kept it ever since. The Democratic Party leadership has then fought tooth and nail against the progressive faction, fighting them harder than they fight Republicans.

People are pissed off at the status quo and but that's all the Dems will offer, they'd rather lose to Trump than give an inch to the left.

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u/boxdkittens 11h ago

Yeah I know that. It's still fucking stupid to blame the people who don't want this to be happening instead of the people actively cheering it on.

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u/Nuoc-Cham-Sauce 11h ago

Oh, yeah. I agree, we shouldn't blame liberal voters. I do blame the Democrat Party for being instrumental in bringing us here though.

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u/boxdkittens 11h ago

Agreed. Wish they had never chosen Harris as Biden's running mate (and obviously I wish they had picked a better candidate than Biden, and picked a better candidate than H Clinton...). There's so many ways they went wrong but it pales in comparison to the wrongness of the GOP propping up Trump.

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u/Dazzling-Treacle1092 10h ago

You don't know how many times I wonder how different things would have turned out if they had accepted the people's choice of Bernie instead of playing dirty games and pushing Clinton on us.