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Those train tracks are the non-voting, bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe idiots.
Amen, if the fascists don't kill me for being a Palestinian, it'll be the white leftists giving me a fatal aneurysm lecturing at me about how letting the fascists win again will totally help my cause that I just want to feel assured that my government isn't looking for ways to officially enlist the Klan as a morality police.
Wow, what a shitlib you are. /s
the tracks are capitalism.
weve been on this track for a long time, through republicans and democrats in power.
The train tracks are the influence of the bourgeoisie and their allies as they perform hatred judo.
was voting and presidency meant to feel like a Pachinko machine? (or Peggle) where you launch the balls, and you are separated by acrylic and have no control past the first bounce.
I don't quite get why you're being downvoted because that's honestly how I feel, and I don't even live in the U.S. I feel like it applies pretty well to Sweden as well. At least there are options here that are like a 60% match with my personal viewpoints, but there's no such thing as a perfect fit.
It may be that I (accedentially or not) compared the quality of indirect democracy's quality of outcome to gambling. Or im secretly making a larger more radical stance, somthing, somthing, revisionist social democricy has failed here, somthing, somthing.
What's important to note is that people have been doing it according to your politics for decades, and it has produced the situation we're in right now.
It kind of seems like the lesser of two evils and pied piper strategies are actually closer to being the tracks in this metaphor, not the people who refuse to vote for Fascist Lite.
Yeah, this is what always bothers me about the vote shaming crowd. Yes, we need to reelect Biden because Trump is a literal fascist who will end American democracy, but we need to have a hard look at how we got into this position, starting with Democrats embrace of neo-liberalism in the 90s and ending with the fact that the party is running a candidate that 67% of their own voters didn't want on the ticket. And no, Biden and Trump are not the same, but George W. and Obama were pretty damn similar, as well as Clinton, Regan, and the first Bush. If the Democrats don't start offering and actual progressive alternative to the right, we're just going to keep doing this until a more competent fascist finally wins.
I will scream this unpopular message until I turn blue. Get involved in your local community politics.
We all only seem to care about electoralism every four years when we're presented with a disgusting choice that disheartens us all and makes people cynical and feel unable to affect change. Meanwhile, there might be uncontested elections running in your county RIGHT NOW that will decide how much and what kind of support will be given to your district, how your schools will be run, how your taxes will be used. Even just pushing back against local political candidates you don't agree with sends a powerful message, that we demand actual representation, not WWE theater like the fascists want to make it.
Our federal government is the peak of a pyramid. We're all clawing and scrambling to make the peak all polished and shiny according to our own values, meanwhile the giant foundation is just crumbling every day, threatening to bring the whole thing down.
Actual progressive alternatives to the right don't have a majority in the US, sadly.
Your iDiOtIc CaSe is no substitution for a valid counteaargument. Neither of your parties represent the interest of the people. Get a third one.
Americans have two ethical choices in the upcoming election:
That's it. Voting 3rd party without changing the system prior is not an ethical choice, for it enables fascism.
And it's gonna be this way until it deteriorates into absolute dysfunction, isn't it? Because so far it's been 0 times they went "good grief, crisis averted, the right sports team won the election, and now is the time we fix the system". It's always a crisis after a crisis after a crisis.
Not voting doesn't get us any closer to fixing the voting system, dipshit. You can vote and advocate for voting reform.
No, I cannot.