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An American tragedy: how Biden paved the way for Trump’s White House return
(www.theguardian.com)
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But like what’s the other option? You know you’re getting one or the other, and one is going to hurt a lot of people rather directly.
Really, though, the time is now to start trying to make changes, when we’re in an election that ship has sailed and you ARE picking the lesser of two evils.
The other option is what people did: staying home, not voting, and not caring which one they get because neither one has done anything to improve the material conditions in their day to day lives. All the yelling about duty and democracy isn't going to do shit to motivate people who are up to their ears in bills and working three jobs to pay rent.
Like, obviously that's not ideal. I'm one of the people who is at risk during a Trump presidency, I know he's the worse option. But the DNC can't coast on "wow those guys are just so bad" forever, they have to actually do something.
And yes, I know Republicans try to stop the government from doing literally anything helpful at every turn. That doesn't mean the Democrats have to lose their fucking spine about it. If they're not even willing to threaten the nuclear option with the filibuster then they're not even doing politics, they're just getting paid to argue politics on TV with their office buddies.
Sure I get it, and I don’t disagree, the dnc cannot just coast on ‘well at least we’re not THAT bad.’ But if someone stayed home and didn’t vote or voted 3rd party out of spite, I have no patience for their calls of ‘boo boo don’t blame us, blame the dnc!’ I know several people who are terrified about what the incoming presidency could mean for them, and I am also afraid. Sure the dnc and the democrats don’t do very much for us, but at least they are militantly opposed to us.
Again, the time to start pushing change is NOW. Not in 4 years, when if we do nothing we will once again be stuck with well, at least is isn’t actively awful.
That is if we even have a democracy for next time.
Yeah, for the most part I don’t disagree. I held my nose and voted Harris even though my presidential vote doesn’t matter in a blue state anyway. I just think the responsibility ultimately lies with the DNC, not the voters, since the DNC’s job is literally to get Dems elected. I’m not particularly optimistic about how much the DNC really supports us, even if they are for sure better than Republicans.
I’ve stopped expecting anything in the way of progress nationally that isn’t coming out of the courts (SCOTUS is weirdly a mixed bag in this regard). I’m not expecting any of them to stick their neck out in the next 4 years when I’m already seeing think pieces about how trans rights cost Dems the election.
Same on pretty much all count there. Get involved locally, form communities, let’s do the best we can to support each other and ride this out