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The country genuinely does need a competitive second party.
Everyone blames Democrats for the lack of choice in candidates, while the other guys are nominating a twice impeached, adjudicated rapist and insurrection supporter with ninety one criminal indictments and multiple pending civil suits.
I haven't had a candidate come out of the GOP worthy of consideration in my entire lifetime. At one point, they were the party of not only Lincoln but folks like Eisenhower.
Trump is here because dems wanted an easier candidate to run against. https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign-intentionally-created-donald-trump-with-its-pied-piper-strategy/
2016 was 8 years ago, and I think it's rather weird and conspiratorial to blame Hillary for Trump in the first place. She might've had a preferred opponent but she certainly didn't control the GOP. She barely controlled the DNC. She had a hard fought primary with Bernie who wasn't even a member of the party, and had a relatively low national profile before the election.
This points at exactly what I'm talking about above. To hear you tell it, Democrats are somehow the only people with agency in the entire political landscape.
Politicians have no real agency, it is the rich that control the entire political landscape. They liked Hilary and Trump, and they told them to support elevate each other so that no matter who wins, they get their way. They do this in every election, same major donors fund both sides.
Democrats and Republicans are just puppets that pretend they are against each other, but in reality they are on the same side working for the same employers and getting votes by bashing each other.
So you had a long think on this response and decided that your take that Hillary was responsible for Trump was too nuanced? 😆
There are material differences between Democrats and Republicans and acting like there aren't serves nobody (except perhaps Republicans).
Trump is a democrat funded candidate in republican party. They both work for the same people and same interests.
You're an idiot
It needs an electoral system that makes third parties viable.
You know it's bad when "BuT hE hAsN't bEeN cOnViCtEd YeT!" is somehow a defense for supporting this guy.
Like, c'mon that nonsense wouldn't fly pertaining to your daughter's new boyfriend, why the heck would you let it excuse somebody running a crumbling world superpower?!
You've now been made a moderator of Lemmy's conservative community. That's exactly what they spout constantly...