• anticolonialist@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I blame Democrats for someone like Trump being a viable candidate. Their bullshit ‘lesser evil’ mentality over 50 years has enabled this result. Instead of holding your party and it’s politicians accountable dem voters strike out at anyone trying to do your job, exactly like what’s happening with Biden. Voters have allowed their party to continue shifting to the right so much they are to the right of Reagan Republicans.

    Stop demanding leftists bail you out of a mess democrats created for themselves.

    Don’t like the system, stop enabling it

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      6 months ago

      The government is not one person. Are there members of congress, state and local government with whom you align? Do you think they will be more able to have a positive impact under Trump or under Biden? I’m all for criticizing Biden and the Democratic party. I recognize the cynicism of the “lesser evils” cycle we are stuck with when it comes to presidential candidates. I recognize the unfairness of the “if you don’t eat the Dems bullshit and vote blue you will be complicit in creating a fascist state where women don’t have bodily autonomy.” It feels like we are being forced into accepting the Democratic party based on a threat. I won’t be threatened. But I will also not make things worse for people out of personal frustration and discomfort. So Biden is another neo-centrist. We know this. And I’ll vote for him again because the politics I actually support will have a better chance of doing some good than if I don’t vote for him. You can say I’m giving in to the Dems threats but I don’t give a shit. Our country has failed to deliver good candidates but I’m not gonna take my ball and go home.

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        6 months ago

        because the politics I actually support will have a better chance of doing some good than if I don’t vote for him.

        But we all know the reality of any of that happening is none. The exact same discussions we are having right now in regards to wages and housing and education and healthcare we have been having for decades in this country and on many of these issues for damn near over 100 years. The same issues that we are faced with right now with the state of the economy they were faced with those issues during Martin Luther King Jrs era. They lead the public on with promises that we are almost there, but we’ve been almost there for decades. At this point, hopefully a majority of the general public believe that they are just being led to the polls with a carrot and platitudes of empty promises that will never be fulfilled.