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It's no less helpful than what he replied to.
Every Republican is a piece of shit, definitionally. That's objectively true and obvious and anyone with a conscience and an IQ greater than their shoe size agrees.
That doesn't automatically make the Democrats good people. It doesn't make them the opposite. It doesn't mean that "my tribe can beat up your tribe" is a solution to this mess.
The reality is that the Republican party and all of its followers are reprehensible bigots, and the Democrats have done absolutely fuck all to keep them out of power or stop them from killing and torturing. Democrats are complicit by their support of the power systems and class strata that enable Republicans to indulge the filth they want to commit, if not simply by their inaction.
It's literally the Democrats' FIRST job to stop anything close to this from happening. They didn't bother.
We need to do better than electing more Democrats. Our lives depend on letting go of them and moving on to people who want to actually improve our lives.
You spelled out what everyone here already knows. Everyone knows tbe Dems got serious problems. The problem with the response is that it’s “butwhatabout” and an appeal to hypocrisy as a argument fallacy, which you also did. Completely unneccesay and no, it is not helpful, does not add anything to the conversation, and does not grant it legitimacy.
Agreed. That being said, I'll vote for the lesser evil until a better viable option becomes available, just for survival. We need ranked choice voting in this country, and other measures like it, to give alternatives a chance. There's no incentive for the oligarchy-supporting parties to do it, though. I'm not an accelerationist, but I'm beginning to think we will need a (hopefully peaceful) revolution to snap us out of the duopoly we have now.