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I was especially amused at the characterisation of the only two real world choices for president as a false dichotomy! You're so living the stereotype of an ivory tower theoretical communist.
Now that we've been all around the houses and you've evaded the real life D vs R question literally every time I asked it, I'll just put my original point here:
I don't think you've proved me wrong in any meaningful way whatsoever.
You are unable to coherently make any genuine criticism of Mr Trump without watering it down to the extent you can switch blame onto Biden or the Democratic Party for it.
This is not because there aren't extraordinarily stark differences, nor that you're unaware of them, but because you refuse, despite evidence to the contrary, to shift from your belief that in politics there is black and there is white and there exists no grey.
Maybe someday you'll realise that the real world isn't perfect and that if it were, we wouldn't need socialism or communism in politics anyway! Maybe you'll realise that awful comes in different degrees as well as different flavours.
Yes because that does not NEED to be the case. We do not need a corrupt Democrat party to wave their fingers at us and demand we vote for them. Democrats like Bernie Sanders and AOC are starting to understand but the Revolutionary Communists of America (RCA) have the true solution.
Which one? You mean the one that gave almoat unrestricted weapons to Israels genocide? The one that watched people starve on the street while bragging about GDP growth? The one that gave hand outs to his corporate buddies in DC? Or the one that deported immigrants and refugees? Because that has been both
Because what Trump is doing isnt new, fundemntally its a natural continuation of Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Biden. War criminals who brag to us about morality.
When the options are black and a very dark shade of grey with a massive label "at least im not that other guy" there is very little difference. Biden enabled Trump, the Democrat party normalized fascist rhetoric through "civility" politics, and now theyre going even further to the right. Just because Biden did the act of the reasonable kind liberal doesn't make him any less ruthless.
I aint asking for a perfect Anarcho-Syndicalist Utopia (as much as I would greatly like that), im asking for a future ANY future beyond this insanity. You may have the privilege to say that but your Liberal "imperfection" is whats directly threatening the lives of myself, my friends, and my family. When Democrats refuse to counter Transphobic Republican narratives I directly see more hatred directed towards me. When Democrats give unlimited funding to Israels genocide I see more antisemitism directed at me. As much as I strongly dislike Bernie Sanders and AOC (Im far left and they're centrist) I would be more than happy to vote for them.
So my point is im a leftist and I belive in leftist unity, I will vote for any leftist on the ballet whether it be a communist, a socialist, a syndicalist, or even a social Democrat (which is not even leftist) but after voting Kamala in 2024 I have gotten sick and tired and I will not vote for Fascism Lite again.
So, basically, everything I said was true about you. I wonder why you spend all this time and effort trying to sound otherwise. Why not just say "of course" at the start? Or even "I see no real moral distinction between Biden/Harris and literal fascism, and will always find ways to blame Democrats for the evils of trump" it would have saved so much disagreeing with me.