• BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world
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    5 hours ago

    Every voter wants a perfect candidate.

    I’m so tired of this line, as if progressives don’t like the Democratic Party because of a 5% difference in policy opinions.

    Our options for President for the past 30-40 years have been fascist capitalist or capitalist willing to compromise with fascists. To those who actually care about worker’s rights or the environment of the planet we live on, it’s a difference between a candidate who agrees with you on 0%, or one who agrees with you on 2%, but only the policies that don’t hurt capitalism.

    It’s not a case of letting perfect be the enemy of the good, it’s a case of the lesser evil IS STILL FUCKING EVIL. Fascism now and fascism in 4-8 years still results in fascism; how are we supposed to be excited to vote when those are the only options we are ever allowed to pick between?

    • HowManyNimons@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      Jesus Christ. Do you know how the Republicans have turned America into a right-wing hellscape?

      Incrementally.

      They inched the Overton Window right every time they won. Every time some egg said “If nobody’s offering universal healthcare I’m not voting” they get to set the terms.

      They’ve been doing it for decades now.

      Time to start inching it back.