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  • PapaStevesy@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Trump Secretly Orders Mass Arrests After ICE Disasters
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    5 days ago

    We need to stop seeing Democratic candidates like Harris and the like for any movement away from evil to happen.

    And we need to stop electing fascists if we ever want a chance to “see” (read: vote for) such a candidate. It’s actually not about this abstract, undefined “greater evil vs lesser evil” bullshit, it’s about what the two viable candidates were actually likely to do once in power. Everyone knew Trump was a fascist who would try to literally end democracy, he’s done it before and it was essentially his entire platform. Yet here we are. Dems, as experience has taught us, were likely to piddle around for four to eight years and do some performative but ineffectual lip service to their base, while keeping what passes as democracy in place. Seems like a pretty easy choice to me. You can’t fix a system from within if the system has been burned to ground.

  • PapaStevesy@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Trump Secretly Orders Mass Arrests After ICE Disasters
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    5 days ago

    It’s not that they deserve more blame, it’s just pretty pointless to blame the people everyone knew were going to vote for Trump anyway, there was never any saving them and they’re too disconnected from reality for blame-and-shame to have any effect on them. There are actually reasonable people who were non-voters and non-viable 3rd-party voters who could have shifted the vote, the idea is to keep those people from doing that again in an effort to save democracy. We blame them because they are functionally fascists and there’s a chance they might actually feel some shame about that. That chance drops to zero with actual Republican voters.