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Democrats worry their most loyal voters won’t turn out for Biden in 2024
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That sounds a whole lot like lesser evil bullshit. There is no lesser evil, only ever expanding, ever growing evil.
If you have to choose between two evils, and you don't choose the lesser one, then you are an absolute knobhead.
The knobs are the ones that think lesser evil exists.
Are you saying that you can't see any difference between, for example, farting in an elevator vs stabbing a mother's eyes out in front of their children? Or are you just being dishonest and contrarian?
The difference is democrats would supply the knife for a republican to stab the mother
I try not to do this, but here's a reddit comment from 6 years ago that breaks down the voting records between Democrats and Republicans on major legislation.
bOtH sIdEs arguments are fucking insane.
So you're saying the act of handing a person a knife is equal to the act of stabbing someone with a knife.
I don't think you actually believe that, because it's ludicrous and illogical. I think you're just making up cute sayings in order to avoid actually addressing the subject.
This kind of dishonesty is tedious, to be frank. If this is all you're willing to contribute, then you can waste your own time.
Hurrrdurrr BoTh SidEs i am such a fucking enlightened voted
Too bad you don't understand what the enlightened part is, when the left is talking about enlightened voters we are mocking centrists. And they're too ignorant to understand that they are the punchline
Wow you really have it figured the fuck out 🙄
There's nothing to figure out, its common sense, or should be
One of the choices is literally a fascist dictator wannabe.
There is no third choice with a chance in Hell of winning.
What you're advocating for helps the greater evil, bud.
The greater evil is doing the same thing over and over again as things get worse while expecting different results. The current state of the GOP is directly related to Bill Clinton's Southern Strategy
bill clinton's southern strategy? umm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
Yes, bill Clinton's Southern Strategy
Yes, bill Clinton's Southern Strategy
You are very opinionated for someone who doesn't know what they're talking about.
I know exactly what I'm talking about liberals not paying attention to their own party politics is the problem
can you paraphrase and explain what this means and it's relevancy here?
Bill Clinton helped start the DNC shift to the right by appealing directly to southern Dixiecrats. And the Overton window has been moving to the right since
that's not historically accurate at all. he shifted to the right as a neoliberal, but he had nothing to do with dixiecrats nor the southern strategy. that happened 3 decades before him.
Clinton had his own southern strategy exactly like Nixon did, shift the party far enough to the right to lure in the Dixiecrats back into the party
you're misinformed, sorry
Sure Jan
Of course there are lesser evils. I'd much rather have President Nixon than President Hitler. If those were my two choices, I'd vote Nixon.
Well if we're just making shit up I would rather drink orange juice than cyanide. The problem was the duopoly is that one is cyanide the other is arsenic
Do you not understand hypothetical examples when they're presented to you? Do you have some major cognitive impairment which disallows you from comprehending them?
Those were not hypothetical examples. Here's pulling two different opposing things out of your ass
Sorry... what do you think 'hypothetical' means?