Mr Trump made the gaffe about the threat of World War II — which finished in 1945 — during the part of his address in which he was questioning the mental acuity of 80-year-old Mr Biden.

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    Timidity isn’t the problem. The “left” only exists in online forums such as Lemmy. Truth be told, there’s been such a disastrous amount of damage done to working class consciousness over the decades during the cold war that people think wanting universal healthcare is communist.

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      But that is being timid. Because the Right has made universal healthcare a “communist” thing, but the Left is so utterly clueless in this country that they can’t make a unified, cohesive argument for it. They are too timid to attack the Right, even when the Right never misses a chance to go on the offensive.

      The Left in other parts of the industrialized world can be credited for universal healthcare, paternity leave, low-cost higher education and stuff like that.

      The Left in the US can be credited for fucking up pronouns.

      One is useful for getting working families what they need most to not just survive, but actually prosper. The other is just uselessly wasting everyone’s time and energy on pointless issues, and as such, it is no wonder that the Left in the US gets little support and even less respect.

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        The problem is that there is no true “Left” in America. The Democrats are a right wing political party when compared with international politics.

        The only difference between the 2 is that the Dems pretend to fight for human rights, though in actuality they DO very little. Mostly just talk, not mich action.