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When weve got the Christofascists in jail where they fuckin belong.
If someone comes at me with a gun while someone else is trying to set my house on fire, im going to focus on the dude with the gun, then deal with the fire. Theyre both a threat, but one is more of a threat than the other.
What you guys are basically wanting to do, to continue the metaphor, is go running around trying to find the hose while youre being shot at. And you know, thats fine, you do you, player. But dont act like its not completely natural and justifiable if most people, like me, would put their energy into stopping the bullets before giving even half a shit about the fire. The fire will have to be dealt with once the bullets stop. The fire will be dealt with, but there are bigger threats right now.
I think we're mostly on the same page, you just can still trust a Democrat, I guess?
Let's extend your analogy, though: the Democrats are shooting too, just not directly at me, at this moment. There's plenty dead at their hands.
I still might rally behind a Democrat to stop an authoritarian, one more fucking time.
And I might not.
We did this dance.
Democrats do not stop the shooting.
I am strongly inclined to trust a total stranger over an established Democrat.
I am not alone in that.
Even if a Democrat cared to save any of us, I do not believe that the Democratic party has the remaining influence to make any difference.
The Maga crowd got something right: the average Democrat politician is spineless, broken and unwilling or unable to disobey orders from a secret cabal of pedophiles.
If we could wake the Maga types up, they might realize the dumb fucks they're worshipping are part of the same pedophile ring.
I trust them to not be as bad as the MAGA types. That's why it's the lesser of two evils. I know that they're evil fucks in their own way, believe me.
I want a third choice, I truly do. I've long gotten behind third party candidates, and pulled their lever at the voting booth. I voted for Nader in 2000. I participate in the primaries. But at the end of the day, if my candidate of choice doesn't get nominated, I'm not going to abstain in the general if the choice is between the soulless vampire democrat and the Christofascist MAGAt that is running on a platform of making homosexuality punishable by death. I doubt there is even a majority of people voting for that democrat thinking they're the next FDR, they just know that by not pulling that handle, they're possibly going to give the Christofascist the win. We're choosing the devil we can live with versus the devil we can't.
Unfortunately, until we somehow get legal mechanisms in place that codify the basic human rights of the people the MAGAts are targeting in these fucking purges (that's basically what they are), and solidify the ability of the government to make it literally impossible for this kind of shit to happen going forward, this is what it boils down to. I want election reform, I want ranked choice voting, I want the level of representation to be adjusted so that the number of reps in congress isn't hard locked so that we can have more abilities for niche candidates to achieve the office and break the hold these two parties have, I want publicly funded elections, I want strict rules regarding the media as concerns elections. I have a feeling you and I both have a very similar set of values and ideas as to what constitutes a functional democracy.
All Im trying to say is, don't take people voting for democrats as endorsement of their bullshit. It's not that, believe me, it is not that. It's just the only other realistic alternative, the MAGAt, is so, so much worse, that we have no choice but to hold our nose and do whatever we need to do to prevent that asshole from getting into office...even if that is voting for the lesser of two evils.