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Why don't we have politicans like Huey Long these days who can propose to change the system completely? (lemmy.org)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Kinkisthebest@lemmy.org to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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He literally proposed a wealth cap for which a single person can hold, minimum wage before it was a thing (the minimum wage was first introduced in 1938 for those who did not know). So, he went against capitalism in a way which doesn’t even exist in China today. Even in China, there is no wealth cap or something close to it. For example, Bernie Sanders wants to increase taxes in order to provide more public services which means he is not going against capitalism but only increasing taxes. Why isn't anyone doing this now and go against the establishment? Why doesn't anyone try going out of the boundries of capitalism?

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[+] finitebanjo@piefed.world 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The nature of good faith politics is that you compromise to find a solution that will be beneficial for all citizens and representatives. But ultimately, American politics is about elections, which at this point, are just spending competitions.

You may get elected once on the platform of fairly taxing the ultra wealthy... But few people, if anyone will work with you unless they think it will help their chances for the next election. Considering that the ultra wealthy account for 90+% of political contributions, your fighting an uphill battle. Everyone will stonewall you and try to sink your agenda in the hopes that some rich asshole will just dump 100 mil into the campaign fund of your opponent in the next election cycle, so that another lock and step traitor holds the office.

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

People have to realize that at this point, the candidates that are best for the people, will be villianized by every meeting stream media outlet. Keep in mind, this is different than when Trump started off in politics. He falsely repeated that claim so many times that gullible people actually thought the media was working against him.

That's never been true. He's always received special treatment, to his benefit at the hands of the oligarch owned MSM. But he's made the claim so that he can poison the well, and delegitimize any similar claims from his opponents, even though they actually WILL be treated unfairly by the same shit bags raped kids with Trump in the old days, and gave money to his campaign

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

The billionaires won.

That's why.

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago

We're looking at +3C at least by the end of the century, probably much sooner. Nobody smart enough to actually accomplish change in politics wants to spend the rest of our short ass lives renovating the Titanic after it's already hit the iceberg

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

You turn the power to the Have-Nots

And then comes the shot.

[–] memfree@piefed.social 2 points 11 months ago

Citizens United and dark money PACs. As you can see from any given time Trump opens his mouth, people will belive any crazy lie so fast that an sincere politician without massive funding will be smeared with whatever the moneyed interests can dream up. To make sure money wins, they do stuff like remove polling places from poor areas so the lines get so long voters have to choose between getting to work and casting a ballot -- IF they can even get to the distant polling place. Texas just did that again a month or two ago.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Well, to be fair...Bernie Sanders has proposed a 100% tax on everything over a billion dollars. That is effectively an individual wealth cap.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Because they get shot