• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    It’s been going on since the conception of the US Electoral system, that’s what it’s been designed to do from the beginning.

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      1 day ago

      I can see that. I think there was one progressive blip in US politics, and funnily enough Roosevelt was pushed left-ward by the communist and socialists of the era to get the New Deal passed. And we’ve not seen such a progressive slant in US politics since. That’s what happens when you get a major purge of progressive parties from the McCarthy era forward. Communist and Socialist parties used to be much more prominent in the early 20th century until they we’re practically eliminated, now they’re a shadow of what they once were.