I understand that the Democratic stablishment really works for the economic elite, but what I want to know is what prevents the bases from taking primaries everywhere, bypassing the party, just as has happened in New York, as you yourself say.

I may not know from Europe, but is there fraud in the primaries? Are leftist candidates actively blocked even if they have real verifiable support?

I’m not American, could someone explain to me why people further to the left aren’t capable of doing to Democrats what the Tea Party did to Republicans?

I expected it, but not so soon, to be honest.

There are two effects you’re not considering.

First, if you make the best product, everyone else will leave the business, so you become a monopoly. But almost everything has what are called barriers to entry. I can’t open a microchip factory; the investment is absurd. That’s why large companies can easily buy out startups, and that’s why we constantly see market concentration. It didn’t happen before because until the 1970s, antitrust laws were serious; now they’re a joke.

There’s another important issue: in a 100% free capitalist system, it’s assumed that initial bargaining power isn’t equal, so those with more can pressure those with less, making wealth concentration more and more concentrated. Adequate government regulation can help level the playing field between employer and employee, but that’s another thing that hasn’t been improving in recent decades.

I suppose it would be an interesting recommendation to sync data with some cloud service, and not just with Wi-Fi.

And i feel fine

Because I’m not American and I don’t live there, my information comes from European media and networks like this one. Anyway, if you notice, the bit about the media was a question, not a statement.

I don’t understand, some Democrats benefit even if they lose, or benefit from winning even if the party loses.

I know the system is flawed, but if it makes things so bad for a specific group, it won’t matter what happens in this year’s elections.

I can’t talk to people because I’m not American, and after '24 I’m clear that my sources of information are biased and left-leaning.

Realistically, and with everything that’s happened, do you really think the Republicans will hold out?

From the outside, it looks like significant chaos; either the Democrats are very stupid, or the Republicans have massive media outlets to manipulate people (and letting that happen brings us back to the stupidity of the Democrats)

Either I haven’t explained myself well, or you haven’t understood me. I’m not talking about following any set path; I’m talking about throwing everything out the window and starting from scratch.

It is clear that establishing rules that apply in California and Texas requires consensus and compromise, but even federalism needs to be rethought, if you start from where you are today, you’ll never get very far.

At the first continental congress, or whatever it was called, there were no rules to go on. You’d have to go back there.

The United States needs a completely new constitutional process, to stop idolizing as political gurus people who lived 300 years ago and did a great job for their time, but that’s over. In Europe, some countries, during that same period, had dozens of constitutions and nothing bad happened about it.

Centrist Republicans? I suppose those are the ones who are still ashamed to hang a swastika in their office.

Americans want that until it’s the plant near their county that manufactures fighter jets that suffers the cutback, or the huge base near their home on which half the town depends, or his cousin who couldn’t afford university otherwise, the one who gets fired.

The problem is that the bulk of American public spending is there; if it’s cut, it would have to be replaced with other productive public spending, or the country’s economy will collapse and that second part is much more difficult.

With a true left-wing leader, someone with leadership like FDR in the 1930s could be worth something. This bunch of cowards won’t change anything, at least nothing that really matters.

A really harsh tax increase, and worse yet, a hugely regressive one.

I think Lemmy is better prepared to withstand that part of the massification if it becomes popular. The fragmented server system helps distribute the moderation work, and if any instance goes too far in one way or another to the point of becoming a problem, its users would move between them.

After that Supreme Court decision, I believe the United States will not be able to recover a full democracy without a massive constitutional overhaul or a completely new constitution.

Who the hell on Earth needs 4 jets?

Oh yes, market concentration definitely improves the user experience in the long run.

Torrent is even cheaper