I get 2-3 text messages a week from some Democrat and they never talk policy. They never talk about anything but "IF YOU DONATE 5 DOLLARS OUR CORPORATE SPONSORS WILL MATCH IT 300% AND WE WILL FINALLY TAKE DOWN TRUMP" and I wanna murder whoever sent it.
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If you hate against Dems, even if it's the same amount as GOP, and you dont topple the regime and fix the democracy first, you will just help the GOP.
Let's be real: US Americans won't actually burn those parties, while the fascists will vote GOP, no matter what you say. So you just make the GOP stronger, talking like that, in the current situation. This talk only works in proper democracies, where third parties can rise and form a coalition with yet bigger parties, before the government becomes full fascist. I don't see this potential in the US.
Their entire message for over a decade now has come down to "We're not as bad as Trump, vote for us!" They're still bad, and no amount of neo-liberal apologia will get me voting for a neo-liberal again especially after this past election. After all the comments that they just need to reach across the aisle harder. Of Biden saying we need Republicans as well as Democrats in a speech.
Conspiracy theory nonsense that only helps fascism succeed.
Someone is unfamiliar with or in denial about the Ratchet Effect 🙄


Someone doesn't know the difference between ratchet effect and controlled opposition.
The Labour Party here in the UK tried the strategy of "vote for us or get Reform". Their popularity has completely collapsed and the two party system is in the most peril it has been in the modern era. They have nothing to offer, only negative messaging. The Green party have surged because they're offering actual policies and hope.
The US and UK political systems aren't identical of course, but there's a lesson to be learned about trying to coerce your traditional voter base into voting for you because "the badder guys might win".
Nothing convinces me that the Democrats are interested in winning, only interested in maintaining the positions they are paid to maintain. They take their base for granted, and its long past time the bought and paid for individuals were replaced.
Study the history of fascism and you will learn that the only way fascists are prevented from seizing total control of a country is when the center left, the far left, and everyone in between sets aside their differences to present a united resistance. Fascism is an existential threat to everyone who isn't a fascist.
when the center left, the far left, and everyone in between sets aside their differences to present a united resistance.
So you do understand that we need a center left party that will put aside their differences and vote together with the left? Because right now, a lot of European and North American countries don't have that, they have a center right party that is willing to put aside their differences with the far right to vote against the left. This isn't a problem with left unity.
I'm not pointing fingers at just the far left. Everyone needs to understand that there is no threat bigger than fascism. Anyone who believes in a government by and for the people needs to unify against it, from the far left to the center right.
That might mean allying temporarily with people who think that what is happening in Iran or Gaza is okay. Fascism is a worse threat and will cause more suffering and death.
people who think that what is happening in Iran or Gaza is okay.
Those are the very people who will not vote together with the left. They are the ones voting with the Fascists.
I don't disagree but the problem is the current crop of centre/centre-left politicians and parties are actively pandering to fascists and the far-right with their actions and rhetoric, rather than challenging them. They have allowed them to take control of the narrative on all sorts of issues, immigration being one of the major examples. Then they've tried to emulate their policies.
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