The democrats are as bad as the republicans, they just use different methods
That's the problem. We don't have a liberal party and a conservative party anymore. We have a conservative party and a regressive party
Liberalism is regression, it's the epitome of hypocritical liberation.
we have von hindenberg and the NSDAP
The democrats were always a conservative party, it's just that the republicans shifted to a mask-off fascist party around 2016.
A liberal party is bad on its face. Better they show exactly what liberalism truly is than mask it better. When the dems where a "liberal" party they did fucking Vietnam
Typing :Hindenburg: really ought to do something here
The Democratic Party just represents another faction of the bourgeoisie. They only “support” different social issues to opportunistically appeal to a different voting blocs, but they have little or no intention to truly do anything. The only constituency they serve are just a different group of capitalists. Once you understand this, that all bourgeois politicians don’t represent you at all, US politics and policy decision making becomes crystal clear.
Its less cruel to vote Blue, so you shuld still do it. Its whats called harm reduction.
we really need to organize outside of electoral politics. might as well vote too if it's low effort and there's actually any hope of harm reduction (although it's worth considering that a person that is guaranteed to vote and vote blue is a person the dems feel safe dismissing)
but ultimately electoralism as it currently stands in the US is a mechanism designed to attract and dissipate social energy, like a lightning rod.
Voting as part of an ongoing, multi-faceted strategy of civic and social engagement is fine. Especially because there are times where it directly leads to positive outcomes, like state Constitutional amendments that check legislative power. Voting can instead be a method of organizing, where after the election you keep together and continue to be activists in more direct ways.
Ballot questions are under attack by Republicans in many states because they're the last remaining avenue for many political causes in the states that they've all but made themselves the single party dictators of.
I am in two minds about this:
Dems winning = Biden starting fights with everyone else on the planet (Trump also wanted to but he’s too scared to pull the trigger) = higher chance of everyone dying in a nuclear apocalypse
GOP winning = far worse ghoulish policies against minorities and stripping of civil rights in the country = higher chance of dying from deranged conservative government policy
The inflation reduction act invested heavily into renewables and green tech. There is always more that could be done, but you really think Trump would've passed something like that?
it's not that trump would have been better, it's that we shouldn't be using trump or republicans as the bar we measure politicians against. it's a really low fucking bar.
these democrats are occupying the position of opposition, but since they're ineffective and corporate, the republicans are allowed to push further and further right with every election. And since democrats are occupying said position (and actively attack anything that threatens said position) it's difficult for any other person or institution or party to arise that can represent actual, effective opposition to republicans.
So in each individual vote we are trapped in an impossible-to-win game theory problem in which choosing the lesser of two evils is the strictly rational choice, no matter how bad it is, as long as it's technically better. And thus democratic politicians can assume any "rational" dem voter is going to vote blue no matter who, so they (the democratic politicians) can spend their time/energy catering to other demographics (or more often, their major donors).
It's only the actual threat of a withheld vote that keeps dems in line, as the only thing more materially impactful to their interests than donor money is losing their seat (and thus the power that the donors are paying for). So despite the fact that the rational choice within a single vote is to choose the technically better option no matter what, when acting in a series of votes it may become rational to abstain when our interests aren't being represented.
And even so, all of this electoralism is very effectively acting as the circus of bread and circuses. We need to be out and organizing outside of controlled political institutions.
Wow. That really matters.
Government funds stolen from the third world I hope your settler colony burns. Can't have "positive reforms" under an imperialist structure
Trump never blew up NordStream and killed thousands of poor Europeans with that heinous act.
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