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What the article fails to mention is that for many people, the bigger issue is how lobbyist groups can throw dark money behind candidates and get them elected. People want money out of politics.
AIPAC is the most egregious because they are working to funnel tax dollars to a wealthy apartheid state engaging in genocide, but they are just the a part of the problem. People know the Dems are bought and paid for by corporate lobbyists and mega donors and they are sick of it.
And people don't realize that voting a lesser evil is still voting for evil. That people can compromise their morals and rights justify it as harm reduction confounds me anymore. I'm tired of being stabbed in the proverbial back.
The counter point is don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
But voting for the lesser of two evils is exactly what's gotten us here. I'm 38. The Democrats have been running the "vote for us or it's the end of the world, this is the most important election of our lives! Harm reduction fam!" bit for my entire adult life. And when they get in power, they never bother to put in place reforms that would actually prevent future authoritarian takeovers. They bitch about not having 60 votes in the Senate, while refusing to do the things they can with the power they have.
How often do you hear Democrats talking about dismantling the post-9/11 security state? Biden ran on opposing fascism, but he didn't lift a finger to dismantle the tools of fascism. Instead, he just wanted to use those powers for himself.
The screw up that your generation made was merely voting for the lesser evil, and not attempting to run and campaign for the furthest left people that would create real change. You don't stop at voting for the lesser evil, you also push into the next election with the goal to shove them out
When they aren't good, then you're just voting evil. Stop voting evil like it makes things better.
Stop waiting for perfect. Good change happens over time it's rarely immediate. If you wait for perfect you're liable to miss people doing enough good to allow perfect to happen later.
People are nuanced and we don't live in a black and white world. Hillary. Kamala. Gavin. Obama. None of them are perfect but they're on the path there.
People need to stop being so pious around their politics.
Sometimes moving in the wrong direction is necessary before moving in the right direction. Progress isn't linear. Often a weak and useless candidate on the correct side needs to lose before a competent and effective candidate can actually stand a chance. If Al Smith had won, we wouldn't have ever had FDR.
I don't think any of these people are on the path to defeat fascism. They're all fascist enablers. They don't want to fight fascism, they just want to pause it or slow it down a bit.
So you're an accelerationist. Pray tell, why should you be seated at the table to form a new government, when you did not vote to stop the fascists, and when people have tried to stop them all guys like you do is passive aggressively talk about their morals, while doing nothing to stop the nazis?
I'm not pious, I've just realize neither party represents the people and are a detrimental. I'll vote in primaries for better representation but if Newsom is their candidate in 2028, they're losing.
Yeah fuck them dems, all they've done for people is pass stuff like student loan forgiveness (that SCOTUS fucked with bad logic), legalized gay marriage, made pot legal in Dem states, and a whole lot of other progressive shit, right?
They're not representing the people at all clearly.
I can cherry pick too! Such as Biden being a rider on the bill to make student loan debt harder to discharge, often times the Dems will vote for more police funding, and the authorization for military force in 2001 that got us into the war on terror. Also check out who contributes to them and see it's the same as the Republicans and try to explain that one jackass.
Jackass? I have a political science degree, sweety.
Dems fund cops more because up until BLM, it was a policy that was bipartisan to do. Now, way more democrats are leery about writing blank checks to cops. Also, were you even alive for the leadup to the Iraq war? Because I was. The democrats were given fake intelligence to justify the war. You expect people to just unilaterally oppose going after the people who attacked us after the biggest attack on the country since Pearl Harbour?
Businesses literally donate to all parties, that's how shit works in this country. Lemme guess, you sit on the sidelines and want everything to change in the world, and when a politician gives you 50%, 75%, or 40% of what you want, that's not enough. And then they lose, and now that politician that is now in office will give you 0% of what you want, and you now complain that you're not being represented.
Here's some news for you, cupcake. Politics is always about the lesser evil.
If you need to personally be courted, have every view of yours represented, and believe that chasing a plurality of voters is somehow a bad thing, then you're the problem. Grow up. People who sat off on the sidelines and didn't vote against the Nazi are just as guilty as those who pulled the lever for trump.
TL:DR don't care. What do you people not realize that we see no difference between neo-liberals and just main line conservatives? That both are u- oh fuck it you won't see the light.
Sweet enjoy no one listening to you. Have fun on the sidelines.