The proposed bargain has always been “no, we won’t really fight corporations, but we’ll defend social progress!”
Well, they’re in charge, the rich are richer than ever, & now people are being charged with murder for miscarrying & it’s illegal to admit gay people are real.
liberals are the most insufferably ignorant people on the planet holy shit
There are only two possible choices, citizen. Do not think outside the box.
The GOP would be worse. This does not make the Dems good. By any meaningful standard both are bad. the only way for things to actually change within the US system for the better is if the left stops voting for the lesser evil and actually withholds their support for that evil.
Will that be enough? History says no. But a revolution is it#s own beast that would not come from either party anyway.
Both parties suck, stop supporting both and build parallel power.
But what about the minor concessions? There are undeniably differences between the parties.
Here in the UK for example, again the two parties have a lot in common at the moment, yet I'd rather have Kier Starmer's Labour over any Tory party. Even if the only difference after all those years is that benefits get cut by £10 instead of by £20, that can be life changing for a lot of people.
I feel like it's a lot easier to argue for socialised healthcare when the option is at least NEAR the table rather than being in the bin under republicans.
I am of course not a believer in the democrats or the two party system, but I would rather have them than republicans.
I don't care for the table scraps of the people in power and neither should you. They toss them to you so you shut up and not because they care.
No offense but I think that's quite a priveleged take to have. Those scraps can be the difference in going hungry or not. I don't care why they're throwing them - if it helps it helps.
If you really think either party will keep the needy from growing hungry or has an interest in housing the homeless, where exactly have you been living for the last 100 years? It sure ain't the US.
No, I don't think they will. I don't think voting for some centrist party is going to drastically change things, but there is a difference. Even if both sides let the people go hungry, I'd still rather be slightly less hungry at the end of the day. I never said voting was the be all and end all.