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    I don’t know, man. So-called “Tea Party” Republicans have effectively taken over the GOP. You flip enough seats in Congress, and you’ll create a new majority. As long as it starts with the people…you can change the system.

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        The Tea Party doesn’t exist as a separate movement anymore. They were a racist reaction to Obama becoming president, and an act of populist rebellion against the establishment Republicans that were willing to compromise with Democrats. They were the trailer trash wing of the GOP, and they were wildly popular with their base for it.

        They all became MAGA, as soon as Trump threw his hat in the ring back in 2015.

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      Tea Party? Where we are right now started with the John Birch Society in 1958. The only outcome of trying to work within the system is a constant shift to the right

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        Well, clearly the right is more organized than the left, then. Because they aren’t using magic to accomplish their goals. The mechanisms exist, we just need to start using them, instead of simply complaining about the fact that other people are better at using those mechanisms against us.

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            Not coordinated by the uneducated people. Coordinated by the wealthy capitalists who want to perpetuate a system that exploits those people.

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                So, you think the slow progression to the right, is just a coincidence? That there’s just some natural law that dictates the flow of policy in one direction only, and that it’s just accidentally benefitting the rich and powerful, every time?

                C’mon, man.

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          It doesnt mean the right is more organized, it means the socioeconomic power structures favor right wing policies that work to dismantle what power the working class has ever managed to grasp. Capitalism is the root of the problem, and capital simply will not incrementally cede it’s power away to The People through the mechanisms built to preserve said power.

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            It doesnt mean the right is more organized, it means the socioeconomic power structures favor right wing policies that work to dismantle what power the working class has ever managed to grasp.

            That’s not an accident. It’s also not a natural phenomenon. It is deliberate. That’s what makes it “organized”. Generations of intentional effort have gone into building and maintaining it.

            Capitalism is the root of the problem, and capital simply will not incrementally cede it’s power away to The People through the mechanisms built to preserve said power.

            “Capitalism” is not a conscious entity. “Capitalism” doesn’t “do” any of those things. People do. We choose the systems we live by. The problem is that some people have taken the time and made the effort to commandeer those systems for their own benefit, by exploiting the rest of us.

            That doesn’t make us helpless. Collective action gives us power. We just need to use it.