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๐Ÿ“บ Why the Democratic Party CANNOT and WILL NOT be Reformed
Democrats would rather lose to a Republican, to a conservative, to a fascist, to Trump, than address the material conditions of the American people.

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It is an actual concept??!?!

I have been calling it the ratchet effect for years (because it is a ratchet).

Just happy to see someone else calling it that.