Too many comments asking us to vote for the "good cop.". Yes, one cop is a raging asshole punched you in yhe face, and the other cop said "im sorry he's an asshole, here have a cigarette". THEYRE BOTH TRYING TO PUT YOU IN PRISON DONT TALK TO EITHER OF THEM.
Every fucking day it’s anothe democrat texting me, begging me for more money I don’t have.
I don’t have $5 you fucks. You stole it when you raised my taxes, gave me shit, and then bailed out more billionaire cronies.
America is a house on fire... the Republican party is throwing gas and fireworks at it, the Democrats have no idea how to fight a fire and are not sure if it's their job to put out the fire.
You still should vote Democrat but immediately after continue to fight for complete reform
Having said that and witnessing American's reaction to their house being set on fire was basically nothing, I am not holding my breath they won't re-elect republicans and give them a bigger gas canister to finish the job
Democrats are watching it burn and enjoying the show, while pretending to care by writing strongly worded letters and slamming social media posts, so that when the time comes, they can take over the government and do nothing to improve things, because they serve the same billionaire overlords pushing fascism.
Democrats are the ones providing the gas
Never mind that they voted to continue funding ICE every single year they were in power,
never mind that they did nothing to codify abortion / LGBT protections when they had a supermajority under Obama,
never mind that their so-called "progressives" like AOC vote to arm an apartheid ethnostate recognized by a multitude of international human rights organizations as committing genocide,
I'm going to downvote you because what you're saying makes me sad
The number of negative and/or "just vote for democrats idiot" comments shows how brainwashed and doomed Americans really are.
Nobody's saying that voting for the just a tiny bit slightly less evil party is wrong and you shouldn't do it. What people are saying is that it will solve nothing and lead to no real change. At best it'll result in Americans being ever so slightly less abused on a daily basis. Which is of course better, but still shit. That's the main point.
To most people, it's fine to vote for liars, scumbags, criminals, and pedophiles, as long as they're the least bad available candidates. However, if you're struggling with admitting that they are indeed liars, scumbags, criminals, and pedophiles, and should be at best put in prison, then I'm sorry to say, but there may not be hope for you.
Even if Americans managed to get rid of the entire republican party, and have a government purely made of democrats, it'd still be a far-right government, one of the worst on the planet. Let that sink in. All Americans deserve better. As a matter of fact, all humans deserve a better American government, since it unfortunately impacts us all. But you're not gonna get anything close to a resonably good one by voting. It's just not happening in our lifetimes. Likely not even our children's. If you genuinely wish for a decent life, then you can either leave the country or prepare for mass riots. I know it sucks, but that's the reality Americans - and everybody else - live in.
Choosing not to vote because "both parties bad" empowers the GOP and teaches the Dems to drift right because they keep losing to conservative candidates.
You move the party left by voting in the primaries for the progressive candidates. But you also need to vote for whoever gets nominated, even if they're not progressive enough. Choosing not to vote for the Dems is beneficial to the Republicans, and supports everything that's happening right now.
Choosing not to vote because “both parties bad” empowers the GOP
If you don't vote, it's your fault that we lost
We don't owe you anything
Dems need to pick one
John Fetterman being a perfect example of this dynamic in action
You cannot vote your way out of fascism. You can vote in all the progressive candidates that you want and until they are deemed to not be a threat to the status quo, they will be given no positions of power to threaten the status quo. The reform bullshit lines that they give you only prolongs their existence. They promise you that change is just right around the corner. If only you stick around long enough. Karl Marx talked about these exact same scenarios in 1860 and people are still waiting on fundamental change. In the words of James Baldwin, how much time do you want for your progress?
I'm happy to rage at how terrible Democrats are. I just also want people to recognize how outwardly horrible Republicans are. I think of Democrats as capitalistic opportunists that see an illogically frothing-mouthed monster, and developed a profit means to fight it forever through virtue signalling.
By all means...that monster shouldn't exist. Not by votes anyway. It has no logical means by which to exist, and it's a cancer not just to Americans but the whole world. No matter how anyone explains it, I'll never understand how people keep voting for them.
I mean all this hand-wringing about Democrats and the American left can't stand up a functioning party that could win a council race let alone a congressional one. Dems have their flaws, but if half the online left focused their rage posting into actually trying to get a foothold in winnable races (other than voting for Jill Stein every four years) maybe the two party system would be broken by now.
Reducing the condemnation of an openly genocidal entity to "hand-wringing", and support for said genocide to "flaws", is on par for the soulless liberal.
That's a lot worse just to say that you don't understand that the US is a one-party system
Im now convinced more than ever that the left will never gain any traction in the US when I see posts like these. It's clear lefties are not interested in building political power but rather just opining endlessly about the so called dualism of American politics while sipping Starbucks and ordering delivery on their iphone
It’s clear lefties are not interested in building political power
But I thought we had so much political power that we caused your pro-genocide corporate-owned candidate to fail?
Also leftists don't drink Starbucks dipshit.
Feels like a lot of people are just fed up with the whole system at this point.
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