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Jesus christ this has gotta be one of the most annoying conversations people have every four years. uhhh we gotta vote because the other candidate is literally hitler guys he's literally hitler. uhhhh noooo I don't wanna vote at all because I'm cranky and my candidate has dementia and sucks waaaaah.
I feel like I'm stuck in a fucking time loop. I would much rather see people being like, oh you hate our options, like a sane person, but will probably vote anyways because it takes like an afternoon at most, if you really feel like it and hopefully don't have anything more important to do? Instead of this meme, I'd rather see like, oh, here's some shit you can do, here's some organization you can join, here's some place you can donate money, something like that. Here's what building you should throw a brick through the window of, you know? I'd rather see that, than these dumb ragebait memes.
I don't remember anyone saying previous Republican candidates were literally Hitler. I also don't recall any of them saying shit that's taken almost verbatim from Hitler's speeches. No promises to be a dictator. No talk of political purges. No "blood and soil" rhetoric.
If you think every election is the same, you have really not been paying attention.
But Democrats threw tens of millions of dollars to a “Pro-Trump” Dem Senate candidate in Tennessee. Mayor Adams, up in NYC, has echoed a host of the Trump “immigrant invasion” talking points, when confronted with bus-loads of women and children kidnapped and displaced by governors’ Abbot and DeSantis.
Then you’ve got Sinema in Arizona and Manchin in West Virginia and even John Ossoff of Georgia demanding hundred of millions for bigger and more heavily armed police forces to clamp down on any kind of public dissent in their historically red states. Our AG is once again refusing to close the torture camp in Gitmo, while Anthony Blinken runs around the Middle East peddling advanced weapons systems to extremist governments in Saudi Arabia and Nigeria and India.
You can “Trump would be worse” all you like, but this shit is truly awful on a scale its hard to overstate.
This is why George Washington didn't want a 2 party system.
Nobody does but you're not a democracy so it's tough luck
democratic republic is still a democracy, please don't be like those conservatives who spout "it's a republic not a democracy", the electoral system is outdated, but it's still a democracy
Yeah, sure, just like the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (aka North Korea) is also a Democracy because it says so in the name.
Sorry but that power duopoly with a Mathematically rigged voting system you have over there is barelly more democratic than Russia, the vote being little more than a theatrical performance were you get to choose between two pre-selected options who are so shit they can't really sell their own personal qualities so both mainly campaign on "vote me 'cause the other guy is worse".
Unsurprising both "sides" when in power always govern for the benefit of the same group (and it's not those who voted for them) but they sure make a big show of their differences in the moral plane to compensate for being pretty much the same in when it comes to the actually governing of the country for the good of those who live there.
Looks at the democratic index
The politicians in charge want it. So pretty much every republican and a sizeable amount of democrats. Without actual representative voting, both parties would loose a lot of members to new founded parties who now suddenly do have a realistic chance of actual political power. None of the established people in the parties want that. After all it's working out just fine for them.
Bingo
We are a democracy, it's just that a lot of us fucking suck
If by "us" you mean Boomers yeah I agree.
Us as in Americans, of which Boomers are unfortunately a part
The median age of the senate is 65 years old.
It's the fucking Boomers.
Are you American? Are boomers Americans? If you say the word "us" in reference to Americans, of which you are a part, then boomers are also part of that group, and are included in "us."
You can use "us" to refer to any group or subgroup you're part of, and you can say that a lot of people in a group you're in are awful without taking any responsibility for that awfulness. A lot of us humans suck, but I like to think I'm not too bad
Seems like you're just trying to deflect blame away from Boomers honestly.
How? I'm literally saying that a lot of Americans, boomers in particular, suck. What about that deflects blame away from boomers? I'm literally just acknowledging that they're voting, and their votes are the bad ones