• kescusay@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      That’s the fucking POINT. We don’t have a great democracy. We want one, but we’re currently fucked by the undemocratic electoral college, a system specifically designed to winnow our choices down to two.

      So your options are a member of a rather pedestrian centrist party, or a deranged and demented monster.

      If you’re not American, as implied by your comment, then you may be used to functional democratic systems. Well, we’re currently stuck with what we’ve got. So as an outsider looking in, who do you want in charge of the world’s largest military? Harris or Trump? Pick one.

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        No citizenry is ever stuck, at any point with the government they have. That was the entire, exclusive positive lesson to learn from the american experiment.

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        Democrats aren’t centrist, they’re right-wing. Harris is talking about making the most lethal military in the world, cracking down on asylum seekers at the border,.and giving unlimited support for genocide. Under Biden the number of people killed by police went up every single year and under Harris that trend will only continue.

        If you want democracy you need to think outside the ballot box, because elections in the US are fucked and both parties are in on it.

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      They deny that this is a fascist country while also refusing to acknowledge that there are no choices. They treat politics like WWE wrestling, they cheer for their favorite wrestler when both wrestlers work for the same company