cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5309499

After Biden’s meltdown, the Democrats are hoping to reenergize people with a supposedly “progressive” pick for Kamala Harris’ running mate.

  • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    32·
    3 months ago

    I disagree. He’s not fake progressive. He’s a real progressive. Progressivism is the left side of liberalism and progressives often do bad things. Its fine to call things what they are. Just because “progressive” has positive connotations doesn’t mean we can just, be communists and say that progressivism is insufficient. We’re communists, not progressives.

      • HamManBad [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        19·
        3 months ago

        American progressives have always been imperialist. Historically they supported eugenics. He’s not mislabeled at all, in fact today’s progressives are much less rabid than the ones from the Teddy Roosevelt era

      • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        18·
        3 months ago

        I disagree that “progressives” cant be pro-Israel because social democrats in imperial core nations will always support imperialism. There were two people in all of congress who were consistent on Israel and one of them just got primaried. And I’m pretty sure they still stumbled on other questions related to imperialism. Like I said, progressivism isnt actually good, and the main way its not good is that “progressives” will support imperialism while supporting progressive policies domestically. For me, he fits the bill of what I expect of an American “progressive”, its just that progressivism isnt actually good lol. Almost all of us here are former progressive socdems so I think some of us still have an interest in keeping the label “pure” but we dont actually have to do that really. We’re communists, we left that behind. Social imperialists can have the label lol.