Asklemmy

Money > Ethics. Its pretty simple, everyone has a price. People will ignore or downplay the shitty things if you keep a certain level of contentment.

It's the degeneracy into idolism. Idols can do no wrong.

Because for the most part, Americans are bloodthirsty morons.

Dems don't care who the leader is. What matters if they're advancing the agenda. Same reason Republicans cheer on a pedophile rapist.

Because government does things that large populaces can't or won't do for themselves. Sometimes that's things like Social Security, regulating companies so they don't enslave us or dump DDT all over the place, or organizing enough coordinated violence to prevent other, more aggressive governments from coming in and taking over. Sometimes, usually when the people aren't paying enough attention, it's horrible things like building Gitmo or supporting Israel.

Ideally, everyone would be well-informed and engaged enough to immediately hold government accountable when it does horrible things in our names, but for a lot of people life is hard, and they've been actively discouraged from having that education and engagement, usually by one flavor or another of psychopath who wants to get away with their atrocities and not be answerable to a decently informed and engaged electorate.

Democrats do, on balance, care more about their leaders committing atrocities than Republicans do, but the phenomenon of "I just can't think about that right now, I've got other things going on" is a universal experience.

It's right to be outraged by this complacency, and I don't even think anyone is wrong for wanting to disengage from any political party or even politics as a whole in response, but wanting to remain morally pure and wanting to achieve anything of merit within the system we currently have are mutually exclusive goals.

If someone finds politics as a whole, and all of the moral compromises involved, so abhorrent that they don't want to engage at all, I get it, but they'd really better start looking up how to engage in violent resistance, because change either comes through politics and all of its attendant compromises or through violence, there's no third alternative.

i guess not all democrat supporters are historians. we had biases taught at a young age with social studies and stuff. and it's easier to compare presidents to past ones. kinda why conservatives default cheer trump cause he's 'better' than biden obama etc.

like trump basically started a war, and by the time alls said and done. we're way too busy doing damage control, reparations, complex PR and stuff. it's not forgotten but we work on the present.

Because the alternate is literally fascism. Until we do away with first past the post, there are only two real choices. And if you don't choose the lesser of two evils, then you're part of the problem and you're literally responsible for people dying.

We are all tired of what-aboutism.

We gotta focus on the present situation.

Sounds like you’ve built yourself quite the straw man.