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Wake-up Call: Democrats could easily lose the White House and Senate next year
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Replace evey year you listed with 2012.
And replace trump with George w Bush.
These were the same arguments being made by Dems back then. I voted. And we still have genocide supply. The genocide we have now is unacceptable. Just because there is potential for it to get worse don't mean I should accept they situation we have now.
Biden cut check to Israel with a smile on his face. So will the republican party and so will future democrats. None of them will be getting my vote.
You're a genocide apologist when you vote blue.
That's not what they said in 2012 (a year when Bush wasn't even on the ballot, by the way). I've been alive for ten presidential cycles, and I've never seen it this bad before. I've never seen a candidate with such blatant disregard for democracy, or voters who are so blithe about tossing away their voting rights.
But even if they said it then, it doesn't preclude it from being true now. Things can get worse over time. A threat narrowly defeated in one year doesn't prevent that threat from gaining power and causing more problems a decade later, and the GOP has undoubtedly gotten worse over the last thirty years.
Ad hominem nonsense aside, your comment would've sounded somewhat reasonable in 1996, but in 2023 I don't think it is. If you see the danger but run the other way, aren't you treating the many more lives that would be lost as a result of a second Trump presidency with the same clinical disconnection that the Democrats are treating the Palestinian lives lost with each shipment of arms?
It's literally the trolley problem. You want to not be the one pulling the lever. That's fine. But the point of the trolley problem is that there's not a morally correct answer. It's a terrible situation, and there's no right way to respond; but lambasting others on the internet for their choice is definitely the wrong way.
You are right it was in 2000. That was a long time ago.
Anyways here's an article talking about black voters are " choosing the lesser of two evils" when voting for Gore. Remember how that turned out?
If I remember correctly gore got more votes but Bush still won because his brother was the governor of Florida or something...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/10/29/some-black-voters-view-gore-as-the-lesser-of-two-evils/875026c6-d3d7-4076-ae3d-db858cb0270b/
You'll notice that I've not said "lesser of two evils" a single time. My primary argument is an existential one.
Thinking that abstaining to vote washes your hands of association is not correct. Your abstention counts as a vote for the winning party, whether you like it or not.
Choosing to continue to participate in the social fabric is supporting the choices made much the same as casting a vote. You're paying taxes, you're collecting incentives, you're participating in the economy, you're enabling the growth of GDP.
By your own logic, assuming you're an American citizen and not just a troll, you're also a genocide apologist who's enabling whatever party wins.
What a crock of shit. I can't realistically opt out of "the social fabric" I can choose who I vote for. And it won't be biden or trump.
Y'all should try it!
You are exactly right....I voted for biden in 2020.