The problem I have with this is... this reminds me of the kind of thing that goes on in places like Venezuela. The issue I have is... previously, normally, our political debates were ideological- one set of beliefs versus another set of beliefs.... but now this moves things towards class struggle. Now people of a certain class are given financial incentive to support the government and the particular party. You vote for them, you get financial benefit. They've done this kind of thing in places like Venezuela.
One thing that gets thrown around a lot on the internet is the accusation of someone being a shill. If someone calls me a shill, it's considered a big deal if true. It is considered fundamentally different if someone says something out of genuinely believing versus if they are being paid.
They are basically buying a certain sector of society. Moving forward and increasingly so if this kind of trend continues, it may be that people who support Biden's party don't actually believe in what they say they believe and are actually acting out of financial incentive rather than good faith. They might deliberately be deceptive and basically be shills. This trend would basically turn people into shills for a particular party.
With the rightly guided caliphs- people genuinely supported them, they didn't go and pay off certain segments in exchange for political backing. This disturbs me about the Democrats. They have no problem with buying people off for support. The Republicans at least in theory are supposed to limit spending. But the Democrats don't have that as a barrier. My theory is we're being moved towards some sort of socialist dystopia.
The rightly-guided caliphs had the means to try to create a socialist utopia and they never did so. Clearly that is not the correct function of the state. They ran a minimal state in terms of economics. And it makes sense that they didn't opt to go for a socialist utopia.
If you have this gigantic state with the ability to house you, feed you, wipe your butt and do every single thing for you..... then you've created this very powerful, super gigantic entity that can be turned against you. I think this is why giant socialist states are associated with genocides and crazy nightmare tyrannies.
Just to be clear, I don't like this but I'm not so much concerned about this in itself but rather in the prospect that we are moving towards some sort of larger agenda of socialism.
We were already in socialist utopia in Murica, but one that was cleverly hidden. The kind of socialist utopia that we're in is one that only benefited one group of people: The top 1% wealthy; the MIC (Military Industrial Complex); the oil, pharmaceutical, healthcare, and farm lobbies. In America, it is only the poor working class that doesn't have a voice and a lobby group.
The Democratic party knows the discontent that exists within the voiceless poor. And while Republicans look the other way and focus on the corporations, the Democrats likes to play both sides even though they're 80% of the time on the corporation side. The only time Democrats remember the poor working class is when they need votes during the election season.
For instance, Biden campaigned to forgive all of student loan during the campaign in 2020. However, after he was elected, he stated he would look like a dictator without the congress assisting him if he tries to forgive student loan on his own. You noticed what he promised during the campaign was irrelevant. Even when Schumer (current Majority Leader of the Senate) went to him and advised him to start the $50,000 student loan forgiveness for each student, he wouldn't listen.
Now that he is doing bad in the polls, he is worried about losing both champers of US Congress, and becoming a de-facto a "lame-duck" president. So suddenly he remembered those poor working class group of people and only offered $10,000 student loan forgiveness just a few months before the election.
That should tell you the Democrats' "concern" for the working class is driven not by principles but by political considerations.
Republicans on their end don't care about the working class, but to hide it and redirect any anger from these group of people - who are the majority of the population, they play the race card by scaring the whites to vote for them, and if they don't blacks, Hispanics, and "leftist" groups would be coming for them.
They also scare the religious groups, telling them America would be destroyed if they don't support their anti-abortion and other anti-gay claims.
At the end, they serve the same forces (the top 1%), and all of these games are played on the minds of the poor masses. I personally would recommend to every Muslim not to vote for either of these 2 parties. Just mind your business and don't let slogans fool you.