Funnily enough my immediate reaction to reading this was a little "oh, sorry". Just who I am (as a tangent towards this ghost town of internet of yore, I caught the 'Sorry Cop-o-type' in Disco Elysium
right away when I played through that a couple of months ago, great game). And my sympathies in regards to your family. I won't be so crass as to say you're 'lucky' that they're still at least at the cable news stage (as bad as Newsmax is, which is max), so I'll just say that try keep them from the internet side of things. You'll be shocked how quickly "liberal globalist agenda" turns to "The Jews".
But man,
She did real bad this year. My copium is that people listened to the centrists who said voting for her was useless and so on, so they just all went and voted Trump.
This makes no sense. You mean the voters that you keep (rightfully) reaming the Democrats for trying to go after? Or hell, what is with this "this year"? While yes, she has done abjectly terrible this year (so terrible in fact that she is in real danger of losing to
Robert fucking Kennedy), you say this like she or her party have actually done well, and Jesus dude, they have
never done well. Screw the 5% threshold, it'd be a record setting day if they hit 2. They have no seats in the Senate, or the House, and hold less than 200 elected positions across the entire country. The uncomfortable truth you don't seem to be getting, is that they aren't a party, they are the idea of a party. Because unfortunately,
Winning that ballot initiative (and stopping the others) is far more important than who wins the presidency.
This isn't true. The president picks who sits on the Supreme Court, who have the power to strike down such initiatives (like they rightfully did with the aforementioned SB1070), and that's before the fact that the president now has executive power to do whatever the hell they want now (due to said Supreme Court). For as much shit as the Dems get for running a neutered, mealy mouthed campaign, where the hell was Stein? The left is so fucking starved of meat that even calling what was going on 'weird' was enough to set people off, all Stein had to do was basically walk out, go "look at these idiots" and dabbed, and steam roll the election. Unless you think that the key to success is to be a huge, million dollar political apparatus like the other two parties.
But look, I'm not saying I have any answers to this shit at all, it's just that this whole "nee-ner nee-ner, told you so" attitude is getting obnoxious and hypocritical. First off:
Both of them are evil. I refuse to vote for evil period, even if Harris is a "Lesser Evil". I've been very consistent in that (especially when you guys have decided that Genocide counts as a lesser evil).
Dude, genocide was never the lesser evil, the problem is that between the two front running, genocide supporting parties, the one that has openly stated a desire to start ethnically cleansing the United States is the objectively worse option. And when you sit there and look at both of those and go
People don't look at that and go "wow, what a moral and upstanding person, I wish our politicians had character like them", you just come off with this dismissive air of "whatever, not my problem", which becomes particularly rank because as (I'm presuming here since I am also) a straight white male with leftist ideals, you're not in any real danger right now. Especially while trying to add qualifiers to burning everything down.
Or this whole "Dems trying to play the blame game" shtick while simultaneously trying to constantly blame the Greens non-exisitance politically entirely on the Dems, like they would have 80mil+ votes if only the Democratic party didn't exist. And speaking of, you keep saying that now they should take the lesson that they should move left, but from my own cynical view where would you get this idea from? Like you keep saying, all of Steins votes wouldn't split the deficit, so why would they try and chase them? There isn't even the evil option of trying to peel her voters away to cripple her because they just aren't there. You complain about how Democrats gave so little of a fuck about genocide, meanwhile apparently the left couldn't even give enough of a fuck to vote for her.
Hell, even watching you giggle at that Simpsons reference from
@hanselthecaretaker2 like you haven't been doing
literally the exact same is buck wild.
On top of it all, he's not American. He's preaching at you from a country with preferential voting, where he's never even had to consider whether his values or the greater good/lesser evil should come first, because he gets to vote both.
On the one hand sure, but on the other, is it any less condescending than to try and blame our fucked up political system on them?
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