Ok. But the Dems and Republicans aren’t the same. Like I agree with you that our system is beyond fucked, but that doesn’t mean both of our shitty parties are equally shitty. If you want to pretend like the Obama or Biden administrations were the same as the Trump administration you just as much in a fantasy as someone who thinks the Democrats are actually competent and well-meaning.
Like shit, I’m not pretending like voting is the be-all end-all of civic action: FAR from it. That’s why voting, at best, is harm reduction. But fuck, it’s so goddamn easy, and why would we want to ceade ground for no reason?
They only differ in rhetoric. Deportations exploded under Obama and were higher than Trump’s first term. Drone strikes skyrocketed. Biden approved record breaking amounts of money to Israel so they could fund a genocide they were proudly broadcasting. Obama’s cabinet was filled with Wall Street execs right as it became clear that they’d knowingly crashed the global economy to make a quick buck and then gave them money to buy the assets of the people they fucked in the first place.
If you still believe in democrats, you’re not engaging in politics, you’re engaging in a cult.
The dems only pretend to be different. They don’t have to be the same if the financial entities who fund control and dictate their decisions and actions are the dame financial interests behind the republican party.
Look ip the ratchet effect. Basically when the Republican party is in power things move as dar to the left as possible then when dems are in they pretend to tru to push progress to the left but the mechanism just ratchets back without moving anything meaningful to the left then the right comes back in and boom more progress to the left.
Whag did democracy just do this last election cycle? They ignored constituents and refused to move any policy to the left and instead courted “moderate republicans” and touted endorsments from liz cheney joe walsh and other past republican leaders as wins? The Democratic party is not a left party they are a neo liberal right wing party. They are the other wing on the same bird and that bird is shitting all over you.
Ok. But the Dems and Republicans aren’t the same. Like I agree with you that our system is beyond fucked, but that doesn’t mean both of our shitty parties are equally shitty. If you want to pretend like the Obama or Biden administrations were the same as the Trump administration you just as much in a fantasy as someone who thinks the Democrats are actually competent and well-meaning.
Like shit, I’m not pretending like voting is the be-all end-all of civic action: FAR from it. That’s why voting, at best, is harm reduction. But fuck, it’s so goddamn easy, and why would we want to ceade ground for no reason?
They only differ in rhetoric. Deportations exploded under Obama and were higher than Trump’s first term. Drone strikes skyrocketed. Biden approved record breaking amounts of money to Israel so they could fund a genocide they were proudly broadcasting. Obama’s cabinet was filled with Wall Street execs right as it became clear that they’d knowingly crashed the global economy to make a quick buck and then gave them money to buy the assets of the people they fucked in the first place.
If you still believe in democrats, you’re not engaging in politics, you’re engaging in a cult.
The dems only pretend to be different. They don’t have to be the same if the financial entities who fund control and dictate their decisions and actions are the dame financial interests behind the republican party.
Look ip the ratchet effect. Basically when the Republican party is in power things move as dar to the left as possible then when dems are in they pretend to tru to push progress to the left but the mechanism just ratchets back without moving anything meaningful to the left then the right comes back in and boom more progress to the left.
Whag did democracy just do this last election cycle? They ignored constituents and refused to move any policy to the left and instead courted “moderate republicans” and touted endorsments from liz cheney joe walsh and other past republican leaders as wins? The Democratic party is not a left party they are a neo liberal right wing party. They are the other wing on the same bird and that bird is shitting all over you.