Leopards Ate My Face

They have a two-party system and when they don't like either candidate they throw a tantrum and vote for no one.

Sure the US political system is the most broken of all democratic nations but throwing the baby out with the bathwater isn't the solution either. As bad as Kamala Harris may have been I'm pretty sure she wouldn't have randomly started to war with Iran so does that.

If I can chose between certain defeat and possible defeat in 4 years, I chose the latter.

Voting Democrat in the general election isn’t nearly enough to stop the ratchet-effecting into fascism, and a stand-for-nothing placeholder centrist Democrat president in 2028 will probably just lead to Trump-3/Vance/someone similarly horrible in 2032

I mean, we could also just vote for a Democrat in 2032 and not have fascism. Or, we could defeat fascism in the United States if the left would just get up off it's ass and DO SOMETHING instead of just complaining like they always do.

I'm serious. What the hell has the left actually done in this country to change anything, to stop fascism, to defeat capitalisim? Where are the collectives so I can get a job without having to go to a soul sucking corporation? Where are the "citizen patrols" so we don't need to rely on fascist police to protect people? When somebody loses their job where's the help, the support structure? When someone gets evicted and their house gets stolen by the bank what are the leftists doing about it? Where's the alternatives to "the system" you all say you're going to undermine but never actually do? This is all stuff that I've literally been hearing from the left my entire life, where the hell is it? Is it ever going to actually happen? I haven't seen shit from "the left" in this country except a bunch of stupid youtube videos about how the latest blockbuster movie or YA novel doesn't have enough representation in it or how celebrity/politician/CEO XYZ is bad so you better not support them/listen to their music/read their latest book else you're supporting [insert bad thing here.] You understand me not playing a video game or watching a TV show becasue someone bigoted was involved in it's creation changes nothing, right? You understand standing around holding a sign blocking traffic isn't going to change anything, right? None of that virtue signaling shit matters, except to make yourself feel good. You know what actually CAN change things? You know what actually CAN defeat fascim? Voting. But we can't even get the left to get up off it's ass and do that every four years.

So you don't like Democrats? Would the president of Venezuela been kidnapped if Kamala were president? Would ICE be out in the street busting down doors and sending people to death prisions in Columbia? Would ICE be straight up running people over and shooting them? Would Elon Musk and his band of dipshits have gutted the social safety nets so millions of kids starve to death? Would bombs be murdering entire families in Iran right now? The answer to these questions is "NO," and anyone who thinks otherwise is part of the problem.

So please, don't give me this shit about how voting democrats somehow "enables fascism" because that's a load of B.S. 100 years ago it was LEFTISTS who made this country better. Because of LEFTISTS we have a 40 hour work week, and an 8 hour work day. LEFTISTS stopped child labor. LEFTISTS passed anti-corruption laws. LEFTSIST broke up the trusts, smashed monopolies, and stopped greedy corporations from spewing thier shit into the water and air. 100 years ago LEFTISTS got up off their asses and made the country a better place. And how did they do it? BY VOTING. Because protesting doesn't change things, making tik tok videos that critique mainstream media doesn't change things, throwing cans of soup at the Mona Lisa doesn't change things - LAWS change things. And you pass laws by voting.

You don't want to vote? Then don't. But don't give me this bullshit about how it doesn't do anything, because it does. It's the only god damned thing that actually changes things.