People elect representatives to represent them, not to compromise and pass the opposition's agenda.
It's forgivable if the representative failed to obtain enough power, but if they have literally any means at their disposal and don't use it, an unwillingness to use all the power the people gave them to do what they elected them to do is a betrayal of those people.
Even so, I’m not sure I can agree that the best solution to dealing with the right is to fight the centrists first
We aren't able to use electoralism to fight the right as long as the political platform and messaging of the democratic party is 95% the same as the republican's.
The criticisms of the dem party don't amount to "let the right win", they amount to "the DNC prevents any political resistance to the right, they either need to be coup'd or destroyed if we want to stop the right from winning"
Where do you see frequent trash cans and people regularly throwing trash out in the street?
Typically trash in the street means you don't have enough trash cans, or a bunch of youth or homeless people whom society is failing.
It just speaks to how dogshit the Dem strategy of chasing the <10% of republicans who claimed they didn't like Trump was.
if the federal government just hands over money with inadequate oversight it will just enrich the companies.
The worst part of this is that that money is not just wasted, it's used to lobby politicians to make it worse.
And to be clear, the railroads don't need more money, back when Biden banned Warren Buffet's railroad from striking, I did the math, they could afford to double their work force, giving them all half the year off, and pay each one of them 100K/year, and still give the shareholders multiple billions a year.
Hungary was never an SSR, Kruschev sent the tanks into the Hungarian People's Republic at the behest of their elected government to put down an uprising that had been coopted by fascists.
But yes they literally did secede, that was the legal mechanism which the SSRs broke off of the USSR in the 90s. It was enshrined in the soviet constitution.
It’s been a wealthy country for centuries because it has invested in its people.
OK, but mostly it's the imperialism.
The Soviet space program only got mostly privatized and destroyed. It's not easy to run a space program when your entire industrial base just had the copper stripped out of the walls.
It's actually a major accomplishment that they were able to contribute modules to the ISS in the 2000s.
If that was the relationship, the USSR's constitution wouldn't have permitted SSRs to leave with a simple referendum, nor would they have suffered so much after breakup of the USSR. Instead we see their housing and public infrastructure has been left to rot without the cooperation and relative effectiveness of the USSR's economic system.
We know what imperialism looks like. When the UK built infrastructure in India and Africa, it consisted of railways from the mines to the ports. The literacy rate in India under Britain never got above 12%. The USSR built trains connecting even remote villages and subway systems in any city >1 million. Most of the former USSR countries still have some of the highest rates of educational attainment in the world.
Here's a guy looking upon it 30 years ago, 10 years after the accident.
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/chernobyls-intensely-radioactive-elephants-foot-lava-recreated-in-the-lab/4011170.article
You wouldn't want to sleep next to it, and you certainly wouldn't want to breath it in, but it's not going to kill anyone who looks at it.