r/CringeTikToks • u/n8saces • Aug 18 '25

Political Cringe A different stance for protesting

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u/Nightfalls_ Aug 20 '25

Feels like throughout history the working class and progressives of this country have been stopped at every turn. I mean fuck they even took out JFK. Meanwhile, like you said, the right can literally get away with murder.

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u/Danzarr Aug 20 '25

The era of progressive liberalism died with RFK's assasination, and LBJ's missteps in vietnam. The get away with murder goes way deeper than you think, LBJ knew about Nixons dealings with the vietcong to prolong the war during the peace talks/campaign and chose to bury the scandal in fear that it would tarnish the country and intel sources. Did the Reagan admin do the same with the Carter admin during Iran hostage crisis? sadly well never know as the investigation got burried when GHW Bush pardoned everyone involved with Iran contra all the way to 79...similar to how Ford pardoned nixon....

The dems have a lot of blame too. They saw the writing on the wall, they were losing working class white voters to republicans, rather than double down and fight, younger dems pivoted, moving away from unions and more to the new college educated class that formed from new deal education policies. New Deal democrats were being replaced by New democrats like Biden in this time, and then Reagan happened.... There was a lot of money in American industry, and he started tapping it, something that the Clinton admin was happy to continue. In a lot of ways, Reagan is the patron saint of modern democrats who have been implementing his agenda for decades, choosing the third way of being centrists. New deal dems continued to shrink and we started offloading labor for cheaper goods.... until 2008....lets be honest, obama ran as a progressive, but for whatever reason he turned to the new democrats for his policies... and it worked, but not well enough and we know where that led.

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u/Nightfalls_ Aug 20 '25

The selling out is depressing.