This isn’t about left or right. It’s about recognizing a pattern: When government becomes the majority provider, it becomes the dominant power broker.
And once dependency becomes a political tool, freedom becomes discretionary.
Our system of governance has drifted N2 something it was never meant 2 B. We don’t live N true free‑market capitalism anymore, & we’re not fully socialist either. What we do have is a slow, steady creep. Government growing inch by inch under the banner of “the greater good.”
Pair that with decades of offshoring our manufacturing base, and you get a perfect storm: fewer stable jobs, more people forced onto government programs, and a growing population that can be managed instead of empowered.
@grahamformaine@derrickvanorden Everyone has the right to run for office and convince voters to elect them for policies and ideas, that’s how free and fair elections work. What they don’t have the right to do is choose who gets to vote for them to ensure an outcome, that’s banana republic politics.
If we keep letting folks push this “constant war” mindset, the parties won’t tear the country apart, we will do ourselves, by believing the lie that our neighbors are the enemy.
We can argue. We can debate. But we don’t have to burn the house down to prove a point.
Jakim Jefferies says we live in “maximum warfare everywhere, all the time.” That kind of language doesn’t solve a single problem, it just trains Americans to see each other as enemies.
Stalin didn’t turn into a tyrant overnight. What worries me is how some structural patterns in today’s progressive/DSA space echo that early dynamic: tight inner circles
ideological policing
pressure to centralize authority
narrative control framed as “fighting misinformation”.
They solemnly warned that Trump is “attacking the First Amendment”… all while filming in a state that’s literally trying to fine and jail journalists for exposing fraud. Amazing how their outrage has a GPS, it only works when it points at Trump.
#DemocratsHateAmerica
a late‑night host sat there nodding like a dashboard bobblehead while a “journalist” bragged about skipping the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, then dramatically waved around a First Amendment handkerchief like they’d just discovered the Constitution in a clearance bin.