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Blaming voters when the primary cause for all of that is corporate interference in every aspect from candidate selection to gerrymandering districts to lobbying to the ads seen online and on television to the misinformation/disinformation sewed into widely accepted corporate media.
The people with money are the ones to blame. Not the pool of potential voters beaten into submission at work and propagandized into thinking a far right party and center right party are our only options.
Oh ok, throw that on the big list. Whatcha all gonna do about it?
I participate politically in my city but it isn't about me, this isn't about atomization of each individual's participation level. The problem is systematic and framing it as such is important, not blaming individual nameless voters.
Well first of all, ditch the fucking pretense that the Democrats collectively are actually leftists. They're not, never were, never will be while you continue voting for them. Gavin Newsom is looking like the potential Democrat front runner for 2028, and he has a lot of negative things to say about LGBTQ+ people. That human rights are negotiable is an abhorrent political view.
Gloat more. You just want a system in which no one less genocidal than you is allowed to run.
This is ahistorical drivel.
My plan is to shit in your mailbox
You can look at what our ancestors did. It took voting against the lesser evil to end slavery. The Republican Party was a third party that abolitionists put forward after generations of effort failed to work either of the existing parties from within. In the end it took forming an entirely new party to actually push forward with abolition.
Just as soon as there's a viable leftist third party, they'll have my support. Currently, third party votes only guarantee the greater evil wins.
Yes we wouldnt want you to have to do any work of course. We'll serve you up something nice on a silver platter, until then I'm sure all the Palestinians will understand that you voted for their genocide. "Oh, there wasn't an immediate solution to everything available?" They'll say "no no, we totally get it, please tell them we think its awesome starving to death, wouldn't want them to be mildly inconvenienced" they'll say.
"one foreign-policy one-issue" say you dont give a shit about genocide you coward.
Because the tactic of running an unelectable psycho and yelling at anyone daring to critique her has really been doing wonders.
Funny to bring up Venezuela, you people really have the memory of goldfish. Venezuela has been the target of the US for over a decade now, same goes for Iran. The only thing thats worse (for you) is that you have to pretend to give a shit.
Oh, he gives a shit. Like every other centrist, he prefers genocide over all things.
The majority of deaths in Gaza happened under Biden. Things did not get exponentially worse, you just didnt give a shit when it wasn't politically expedient for you to do so. The only reason we are in a situation where Trump is president is because of decades of this weasely behaviour from cretins like you.
If you have then this is another count of you being some sort of psycho, since more people were deported under Biden than Trump 1. So if this is something you actually cared about, then you wouldnt care for dems either.
Like Guantanamo Bay? Or Abu Ghraib? A CIA blacksites? Or do those not count because they target brown people? And do you think its better when they're in proper AMERICAN detention camps? Run by Tom Homan, who was installed by Obama into an agency expanded by Obama? I guess that doesn't matter though, because its your team.
Which never happened under dems, oh wait it did. And the leaders of the Ferguson riots were assassinated in a dem city under a dem governor under Obama. Cops kill people all the time, you just dont give a shit when its not politically expedient.
No, Trump won because the democrats suck so much they can't even win against a pedophile rapist. There was no state where third party votes were enough to make up the difference and even if there had been then that would not have mattered because dems are not owed your vote.
This is true, unless you're an immigrant or a Palestinian or a union organizer or a peaceful protester or against expanding the police state or against fucking up the climate or you want to protect womens right to abortion or you want to protect queer people or you want universal healthcare or you want to lower the military budget or you want to stop interventionism. Its also not true about changing the democratic party one elected official at a time.
But if we ignore all that, then its true, Yeah.
We've been trying this "incremental change" in Democrats for decades now and this is the results we've got. Nah, don't think it's going to work chief.
Grass roots party funded by the people and truly for us. Because big money isn't going to allow anyone to fundamentally change the system. Elect independent individuals into local and state governments as well who will work to remove first past the post and put in ranked choice voting. Again, expecting any of the big money parties to make change is the definition of insanity.
Ok good luck with your by-and-for-the-people party
You could have said you were a conformist jerk and been done with it. Saved me the trouble of thinking you actually cared.
Ahh so you're just a nihilist then. Again, you save people a lot of time if you say these things out loud then first of all so we know you won't be arguing in good faith.
Go back to brunch you disingenuous facist
Arguing with a liberal is like pulling teeth.
I love when liberals go mask off and show their true colours.
Why are you bitching at me instead of an admin? Whine more.
https://xkcd.com/1357/