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Perfect is the enemy of better (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 days ago by agamemnonymous to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

Unfortunately voting for Democrats isn’t harm reduction. It’s just a vote against harm acceleration.

... that's what 'harm reduction' means.

As a term, it's meant to suggest that voting for bourgeois democratic parties will never, itself, lead towards a more fundamentally equal society, else it would be a (theoretically) viable path in and of itself.

As a term, it suggests that there is a path that will result in a less horrific situation than if the alternative succeeds - such as more capitalist bourgeois democratic parties, or, more relevantly to recent events, outright fascist parties.

Harm reduction, in this context, means reducing the coming harm, not necessarily reducing current harm.