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The Republican Party Becoming a Left Party
The Republican Party exists to actually exercise power on behalf of capital. The Democratic Party is there to perform a ritual consecration of that action. How could it be the left party regardless of what people are trying to gamify with Tucker Carlson or shit? What's going to change that function reality? Maybe if you're in a situation where capitalism is so dire that there has to be some sort of crisis- A crisis accommodation made with the people, right? It'll be like how Bismarck instituted social welfare in late 1800s Germany to forestall the socialists. Say they do that. Even though this is an expression of the state, we're willing to live with this to forestall