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It's a fundamental flaw with the 2-party system. There are no good options, only a "lesser evil" option.
Yes, so vote for the lesser evil.
The primaries is where you try to get your candidate to the general election. Vote for your chosen choice here, and then vote against the fucking Nazi party during the general election. It's really not hard.
People who sat out this last election are worse than trump supporters. They knew how bad trump was, and decided not to take a stand against him.
And trump voters knew how bad he was and decided to support him, i dont think you understand how fucked up in the head trump voters are
Democrats will go to court and argue that they have the right to interfere with the will of the people in primaries. They will protect incumbent centrists like Henry Cuellar but not incumbent progressives like Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman. They will sue to make sure no challenger appears on the ballot in all 50 states. They will appoint a candidate no one but genocidal centrists like at the last moment without a primary.
Then they'll say shit like "The primaries is where you try to get your candidate to the general election. Vote for your chosen choice here"
Because and only because they like how the primary system is rigged in favor of the genocidal shit they like.
All true. And still, if one is a fucking adult, one can see that the GOP is now, quite literally, a facist party, and the Dems are still orders of magnitude less harmful. Once one is in that voting booth, one votes against the much worse party even if the alternative is still bad. I don't care one criticizes the party up to the election, and swears up and down one didn't vote Dem, or even lies and says they didn't afterwards, one still votes Dem or they are simply demonstrating that they have enough privilege or insulation to ride out a fascist administration without much difficulty.
How many times are pro-genocide fash-lite centrists going to ignore that I voted for their garbage pro-genocide candidate?
I voted for Harris. None of you care who anyone voted for. You just want everyone to shut up about the genocide that is the only thing centrists have ever actually fought for.
It’s goddamn infuriating. I’ve been doing this shit for 30 years, man. Holding my nose, voting for the centrist, because that’s where the party was, and that was my only option. Like look at a poll, dipshits. The vast majority of the party want to stop supporting genocide. The left is your ethical base. Start listening to us.
Centrists don't want to. They spent all this time moving to the right to get here.
Interesting, based on what I have ready from you I suspect you and I are in agreement on most everything since you did actually pull the lever for harm reduction even though it made you sick. It made me sick in 2016 and 2020 when I did it. Before 2016 I had proudly never voted for a R or D at the national level.
I intended to vote for Harris soley for harm reduction, but I had to go into the emergency room on election morning and wasn't released in time to vote. So, technically, I didn't vote for a genocider. By your own logic, my hands are clean, and you are the genocider.
Of course, I don't ascribe that logic to any of this. Absolutist, black and white, chimeric ethical or moral frameworks that can't withstand the real world and have ultimately harmful outcomes are a luxury, if not an indulgence. Harm reduction, mutual aid, compassion, that's what is left as real once you strip away all the bullshit.
Democrats: You don't have to agree with 100% of everything a candidate wants to vote for harm reduction! Just pull the lever for our lovely genocide which is the only thing we'll ever be about! No one blames you for voting for harm reduction!
Also genocidal garbage democrats:
It was always about supporting the genocide you fuckers spent decades moving to the right to get. I voted like you genocidal assholes wanted, FOR THE REASONS YOU STATED, and you made it crystal clear that those reasons were bullshit and all you ever wanted was votes for your fucking precious genocide and enthusiastic complicity from the left.
You blame people who voted with you because you can't admit that you CHOSE to support FUCKING GENOCIDE AND ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE, knowing that it was going to lose you an election to trump. Because the people you're blaming warned you. You heard that, understood it perfectly, and liked the idea of genocide more.
And when you lose again because your crooked party apparatus forces newsom on us even though the left is screaming at you not to do that because you'll lose, you're not going to listen. We're not netanyahu or maga, so you'll never listen.
Yes, well. As I said, I suspect I share almost all the same opinions as you about this, except I don't go around literally lashing out at everyone in earshot as "you fuckers" or "you genociders" before they have even opened their mouth. It's a bit ridiculous and 95% of people are going to immediately believe write you off as a troll.
I will go ahead and type out your response to the above for you to save you some time: You: "What's a bit ridiculous is that you genociders got exactly what you wanted all along...genocide!"
Nope, you go around assuming that anyone who has a problem with genocide must be a nonvoter instead. And you're in abundant company on this thread.
That assumption is convenient for people who would like to silence all opposition to genocide, as it lumps the entire anti-genocide left into one group and blames them for the loss they warned you about.
Any opposition to genocide is preemptively written off, as you did.
They will say "No Kings" and issue blanket pardons to the guilty.
The party doesn’t offer good candidates in primaries, either. The only people I’ve found actually worthy of my vote have been from the DSA, PSL, or Greens. This is why the Dems will never support ranked choice voting, it totally destroys their ability to siphon political power from the left.