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Politicians Will Not Save Us.
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Grassroots organization will save us.
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Nah i'm done playing this no sensical game. If I vote, it's for PSL and any other third party option. Not like voting for a Dem in my state of Missouri will do anything so might as well vote for who I actually want to support and stop doing the "hold your nose and vote for the slightly less bigoted fascist".
I used to think the same until Georgia flipped blue for Biden.
It's possible and better then the alternative. Hell if your vote even just helps flip a house seat it is a drastic improvement
Our federal institutions were staffed, the secretary of Health didn't think vaccines caused autism, Elon Musk didn't get to do whatever the hell he wanted to our government, burning a flag wasn't a punishable crime, the national gaurd wasn't policing our cities, we didn't place a tariff on all of our allies, the department of homeland security didn't have a budget of 160 billion dollars, we didn't have El Salvadorian Gulags, I could keep going.
I never said the Biden administration was perfect. It wasn't. Everything you said is true, what you decided to ignore is we have all of those things you listed still and now we have even worse things added on top.
It's actually really fucking funny that everything you listed as being bad has recived increased funding or became a priority under Trump. Like if these are things you've identified as bad then obviously you should want less of them and not more. Now we've enabled a monster that is committing significantly more evil acts, because we couldn't stomach the other guy.
This attitude is why Missouri will always be red.
I hate when people cannot see they are part of the very problem they're trying to solve.
Look at the numbers of the last election. In the Senate race, Kunce (who was actively advertising himself as a conservative running on the Dem ticket) would have needed every third party vote plus an additional 331,000 votes to beat Hawley. Why would the people here want conservative light when they can have the full thing?
Harris would have needed every third party vote plus an additional 508,000 votes. Again someone that was trying to win over the "moderate conservative" by partying with Republicans on stage in an awful attempt at "bipartisanship". Showcasing again people here don't want conservative light. Plus, as someone who worked with the public at the time and was constantly told people's political opinions when I didn't't want to know, they all saw her as a socialist/communist even with all the surrendering she did to the conservative party. Literally would have lost nothing in the public eye if she had gone full progressive instead of "moderate conservative".
The people I talk to who don't vote, even the ones that probably would have voted conservative if they did, don't have any faith in our current system representing them. These random people I worked with or dealt with at work who, as far as I'm aware, aren't terminally online want someone who would actually represent them. Internet libs can screech about leftists "purity testing", but that's how the average person works also. They don't like their options and know that Missouri has been red for 30 years, so why bother when the decision is made for them.
So you're actively going to help the worst fascist, even using your own opinion of the democratic politicians. That makes you an enemy.
No, this is bullshit thinking and it has to stop! The Democrat politicians are the ones actively supporting Trump by sucking so much.
You can support diet fascism, but you but you don't get to call it anti-fascism. And if the left is your enemy, what does that say about you?
Politics are either practical or vanity.