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Trudeau announces 25 per cent retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods starting Tuesday
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I'm sure the Kamala timeline would have been Just As Bad (TM).
Well you know, we have Trump to think for that ceasefire that Israel has already violated
You know that Trump is going to allow Hamas to stay in Gaza right? That is fitting since Bush help Hamas take control in the first place. From the Hamas viewpoint, the whole thing was a success. By kidnapping random Israelis, they got hundreds of Palestinians freed. Which means we are going to see this whole thing repeated in the future.
If we had a more representative electoral system, people could be free to vote outside the two party system. Then people could vote how they want and their vote could still be counted against the republicans if their preference didn't win.
You do support democracy right? Because democracy is not "vote for my preference or else". That is a hostage situation and should be treated as the crisis it is. Your fellow Americans are not represented by their options in the voting booth. This is a crisis!
Yet the democratic party hasn't done away with the FPTP voting system in most of the blue states they control. They wanted safe states and easy elections with no hard questions to answer. Even if it meant republicans winning it all and then some.
The United States of America is more important then the Democratic Party.
Videos on Electoral Reform
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems we can try out.
STAR voting
Alternative vote
Ranked Choice voting
Range Voting
Single Transferable Vote
Mixed Member Proportional representation
Sigh. It's not like most of us don't already know all this. That's a great plan, why don't you work to make it happen? Get a third party that is not a joke and not a set of useful idiots for someone like Putin. Build from the ground up, too, not run once every four years. Start winning local elections and building a party that isn't captured by corporations, and actually is out there fighting for labor and for the middle class and can tell owner-donors to get bent when they try to send in the lobbyists. Try to get ranked order voting passed, etc.
Many of us would LOVE that. However, I don't see anyone seriously doing that. I'd love to see a million Bernies bloom, running as whatever party they unite under. That'd probably bring tears to my eyes.
All I tend to see is useless lectures on how it should be, and how voting for Democrats is "just as bad" as voting for monsters on the right, so we should all just stay home and pout and pontificate about a perfect system while the world burns under donvict. I also see a hell of a lot of single issue voters further splintering the Democratic Party on fringe identity politics stuff and demanding that others should follow them on the way out the door if the Democratic Party doesn't capitulate on some rather fringe stuff.
We only had TWO viable choices last fall. That's it. All the wishcasting in the world was not going to change that.
This shit has never been less relevant. Republicans will never go for this and Democrats can't find their own asses let alone win an election. This isn't happening.
Kamala would have been at best delaying the inevitable. The DNC is not capable of meaningfully changing fast enough to react to the growing threat of fascism.
Delaying the inevitable seems like a much better option than, you know, the inevitable
"may as well commit suicide, because, well, you're going to eventually die anyway "
"we're all gonna die one day, why delay the inevitable"
Say what? So I guess the solution is to....install the people actually eager to implement fascism?
Make it make sense....