I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery

incidentally I missed the anniversary last week but I've now been at the Center for International Policy for two years which is the longest time I've been staff anywhere. I'm thrilled to keep doing the work of imagining better foreign policy and better futures.

Also dictatorship is a living memory in South Korea

Sure, yeah - just using it as a stand-in.

Feel like this is one of the defining issues of our time and still not widely understood. Capital prioritizes control far more than profits.

The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.

Absolutely a factor

All Dems—progressives, moderates, whoever—are going to face a legitimate question: “what was the point of the shutdown?” And there is no good answer.

The most important intra-Dem divide is between Team Fight and Team Capitulate - and I agree with others that it does not necessarily map onto the usual progressives vs. moderates schema. But it’s foolish to ignore the fact that this “compromise” is entirely a product of the moderate wing.

The left gets blamed for having fringe views that become associated with the party writ large - but this sort of capitulation, which is wholly the work of the “responsible center” and absolutely backed by leadership, is so much more damning in the eyes of the public.

This is exactly why people hate the Democrats. They think they’re just electoral opportunists who don’t stand for anything - a view regularly confirmed by the actions of elected Democrats.