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FFS. “The lesser of two evils” seems both timely and inappropriate, for some reason.
This is what "Vote Blue no mater who" gets you. It's ok to demand better from your elected officials, even if their opponent is much worse. The Republicans are jist going to keep rumning more fascists while dudes like this keep preventing progress from occuring that will actually improve the country.
This is what decades of people sitting out gets us. 1/3 of the country does not vote. Repubs are able to run further and further right fascists because their base will actually vote.
Maybe more people would vote if candidates ran on platforms that benefited actual people. It's been decades of neoliberals shoveling money to corporations and the wealthy at the expense of normal people, so no wonder they dont care to vote.
Like how everyone came out en masse to vote Bernie in the primaries and therefore he was the candidate in the general election for 2016 and 2020.
Not a good situation by any stretch of the imagination. A corrupt candidate should not clear the bar, in my opinion, no matter who they run for.