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If they succeed in electing Trump, Democrats won't need to reflect about anything because they won't be allowed to run for office anymore.
But the Anti-Biden folks will be able to tell the next generation that they "stood up for their own ideals!" Sure, they won't have prevented any genocide, and they will have put the party into power that is currently trying to set up a fascist theocracy, but they can go to sleep knowing they have personal integrity!
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The other side of this being someone saying "we're not going to legislate anything that will help you, and fuck you for asking, but vote for us because we won't actively genocide you" which is not really a great selling point but yeah at least we're avoiding the worse stuff.
It's a bit ironic that it's always "Vote for Democrats or democracy dies" when that setup is inherently undemocratic, since your vote can't go anywhere but the single choice that lets you still have a vote
It's a sucky system, for sure, but we have zero chance to fix it by sprinting towards Fascism.
And perhaps it's ultimately a lost cause, but given the demographic shift of Millennials and Gen Z, I think it's far from a foregone conclusion.
Please go look up the political compass. Both parties are fascist.
Yeah, sorry. You're going to have to give me a source for that claim.
It's this dumbass forum of 14 year olds called /politicalcompass where a bunch of high schoolers with no life experience try to discuss complex issues through the lens of a four-sided charicature of political ideologies that they call the political compass. It's total horseshit and the meme has been coopted by actual fascists.
I actually found one source (might have been the same place), and it "analyzes" Biden and Trump from 2020 based on their past policy stances and public statements; it shows Biden and Trump practically overlapping. This is based on some 62 questions they ask community members.
If someone honestly thinks that's a reasonable analysis of past and especially current stances, I weep for the state of skepticism and rational thought.
As a sidenote, if we look at the polling data the way it should be seen, it's interesting that those people are so far left that they feel like Biden and Trump are overlapping.
That sounds pretty ridiculous. Obviously the list of 62 questions was rigged to get that result. I would have asked questions such as "must a candidate win the election legitimately in order to enter a term of office?" And obviously supporters of each candidate would have a different answer to that one.
E: Add to that, thousands of daily government functions go on without any controversy. Like departments of weights and measures. There's no controversy about paying for 10 gallons of gas and getting 10 gallons of gas. Nobody complains that airplanes aren't falling out of the sky left and right. Perhaps that's how the questions trended. You know, like the Senate has a dragout on Supreme Court confirmations but confirms sometimes a dozen appointments in a single day, abassadors plenopentiary and district judges, etc.
This is exactly what I thought when I read that. What kind of "recalibrating" do they think they're going to get to do with a christian fascist lording over the country?
I can't help but have conspiracy theory thoughts, like this is some kind of conservative campaign. It's hard to rule anything out anymore, and the idea of muslims voting for trump is just that fucking stupid.
Or you could actually hear them out rather than discredit them. Biden is killing their families in mass right now. You want them to think about how Trump might hurt them later? Which is actually happening now? Does making Biden think he will win encourage him to stop participating in the war crimes that he’s being referred to the ICC for?
This is how democracies die.
Wtf are you even talking about? This is the dumbest take of the day by far.
Idiots.
If Democrats don't try to get them back, they won't get them back.
If you’re one election cycle away from collapse, you’re already dead.