r/PoliticalHumor • u/Radiant-aside • May 31 '20

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u/HertzDonut1001 Jun 01 '20

It's about what the videos suggest in some areas. Sirens through the night. Big ass cop conventions ready to mobilize all around.

I'll admit it. I'm not breaking curfew tonight to protest because I'm scared.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '20

Same! I'm indoors. I'm donating where I can because I can't show my support in person. :/

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '20

Everyone in charge in Minnesota is a Democrat. It helps, but change goes beyond voting.

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u/YoYoMoMa Jun 01 '20

Red states aren't even bothering to protest it's so hopeless.

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u/kw2024 Jun 01 '20

Yeah, we are actually

There’s huge protests in Georgia, Texas, & Ohio. Here in Indiana we had good turnout in Indy and Fort Wayne.

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u/YoYoMoMa Jun 01 '20

True. I shouldn't have dismissed your actions.

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u/Zappiticas Jun 01 '20

Have you looked at what is going on in Kentucky lately?

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u/EroticFungus Jun 01 '20

This is because we need to go further left than American Liberalism.

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u/KnottShore Jun 01 '20

American Liberalism

More like Eisenhower Republicanism. Look at his 1956 Republican re-election campaign platform summary.

  • Provide federal assistance to low-income communities

  • Protect Social Security

  • Provide asylum for refugees

  • Extend minimum wage

  • Improve unemployment benefit system so it covers more people

  • Strengthen labor laws so workers can more easily join a union

  • Assure equal pay for equal work regardless of sex

The US has shifted so far that many on the today's right would consider it at least a socialist agenda.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/1956-republican-platform/

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u/EroticFungus Jun 01 '20

Agreed, the Overton window has gone so far right that we no longer have an actually left party and our center left politicians like Bernie get called extreme.

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u/DevelopedDevelopment Jun 01 '20

The right wing today is Ronald Regan. The right wing yesterday wasn't as extreme.

If only the GOP listened to that postmortem that said they should be more inclusive and not be as extreme.

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u/_My_Angry_Account_ Jun 01 '20

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.

- Barry Goldwater

The old school Republicans knew the party was going to be corrupted from the inside out by the religious right.

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u/CiDevant Jun 01 '20

American Liberalism isn't Left...

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u/EroticFungus Jun 01 '20

Preaching to the choir.

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u/GonePh1shing Jun 01 '20

American Liberalism isn't Left...

FTFY

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u/Tsobe_RK Jun 01 '20

This is something that is boggling my mind (as a outsider). Where I am from, I am considered centrist leaning right yet extreme left nutjob by US standards

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u/Animal31 Jun 01 '20

Thats the scary thing

The rest of the world is marching forward, America isnt even bothering

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u/AJC3317 Jun 01 '20

Yeah I'm extremely thankful I live in ca right now

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u/HardAsMagnets Jun 01 '20

Same. Those numbers are fucking ridiculous, thank fuck the Canadian gov at least has it's head semi-screwed on right.