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Because America is a completely corrupt society hiding behind the facade of a first world country. It's an example of how capitalism rewards the shittiest people who have no empathy for others unless they can benefit from them.
Pretty much this.
The short answer to OPs question is: he still has support from republicans, oligarchs, and voters.
The reasons are complex but I think there are several.
Firstly no compulsory voting. Honestly the US could barely be called a "democracy" before the current shit show.
Also the "both sides" narrative perpetuated even by those on the left, to their own detriment. The left literally protesting against their own side.
America's history of violence, racism.
Late stage capitalism - people are desperate and will follow along with populist policies even if they are lies.
Checks and balances keeping everything just a tiny sliver to the sane side of abject chaos. Like the tariffs in April - Trump rode right up to the edge but chickened out. If he hadn't he would've lost control after the global financial economy collapsed.
Religion. Not sure what the situation is in Korea but it can't be as bad as the US. Christianity in the US is just a salve to allow assholes to justify their shit behavior.
I could go on.
Like what @TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone said, what do you mean the left is protesting against "their own side?" The DNC isn't left, it's a right-wing party.
Ah yes, bothsidesing. As I said ...
You still didn't answer. It's one side, the DNC and GOP are right-wing parties.
You realise this is exactly the message GOP propaganda bots push right ?
Imagine saying exactly what Trump's strategists want you to say yet still somehow believing you're progressive.
The DNC is a right-wing party of capital. I'm a communist, the DNC cannot and will not represent me nor the workong class. Only their donors.
Sorry, who on the left did the left protest against?
The dems may not be left enough for you but they are your progressive party. Protesting against them for their position on Gaza is the biggest self-own in the history of democracy.
Sorry I'm not going to engage with this dumbassery. I'm not even American.
You guys shat your own bed and the stench is wafting around the globe.
Your other arguments may have their own merits, but the dems are factually not part of the left. As a leftist, I don't support right wing candidates. Whether you think I should have voted for them anyway is a separate argument
As I said I'm not engaging with this ridiculous position.
You were captured by GOP propaganda a year ago, and still haven't managed to unravel your delusion even though they don't need you anymore.
I have to begrudgingly admit they did a great job, developing assets like you who are still parroting their talking points a year later for free.
Socialist criticism of liberalist parties isn't a recent thing.
Here's a short newspaper article by Lenin in 1913 writing about the left-wing Labour Party in Australia, a few years after it became the world's first social democratic government at a national level (well, it was socdem at the time, it's since drifted rightward): https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/jun/13.htm
You are engaging in wrecker behavior. The DNC and GOP are both right-wing parties, and you're here scolding people for refusing to fall for the same electoralist pressure valve.
Join an org.
This is hilarious. Thank you for the content
Edit: https://anarchist.nexus/post/198574
South Korea is a capitalist economy....this has nothing to do with capitalism...
The ROK also rewards the megawealthy above all else, they even have a special word for them: chaebol. Capitalism everywhere is crumbling and dying.
Sure thing
Yep.
You mean the country that's ruled by megacorporations, has a latent caste system, and was recently the theatre of an attempted coup? Yeah seems like they're doing great.
They impeached their president...seems democracy is working pretty well there.
Let's see who runs NK?
Who runs russia?
Who runs china?
O right, lifetime appointments with rigged elections...got it.
And why are China or Russia relevant here?
Because you're in a tankie sub with tankies spouting off random shit about capitalism being the root of all evil....while you posted more shit about capitalism being the true cause and not the fact that shit humans exist no matter what system is in place.