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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world -1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Yea right, let’s elect another Republican and see how that goes. The Republican Party is decidedly more racist, sexist, anti-worker, anti-choice, anti-science, anti-healthcare, anti-regulatory, pro-corporate, pro-slavery, pro-fascist, pro-war, hyper-religious, authoritarian, and anti-progressive, than even the most centrist of Democrats.

This kind of “Both-sides-ism” is a ploy to further weaken perceptions of Democratic candidates before the midterms. The most neoliberal, centrist, corporate Democrats are leaps and bounds better for America since the Right’s embrace of Trumpism. Republicans are literally dismantling our government, our society, and our economy. A vote for any Republican will be a vote for Trump, no matter who the candidate, for as long as the party continues to exist, even long after his death.

Healthy democracies and economies lie in tension between a balance of opposing sides, and managed capitalism worked pretty well until we allowed extreme wealth to penetrate its guardrails. It’s time to swing the pendulum back to the more socialist policies Americans are desperate for, and yet another Republican president is a huge shove in the wrong direction.

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

cool story the post said nothing about not voting tho?

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

At this point, I am extremely skeptical of anything that criticizes the Democratic Party while Trump openly loots and destroys the country with weaponized incompetence, and every single Republican representative unabashedly enables him and profits from it.

I believe this kind of content is designed to push voter apathy by making comparisons between the two parties. There is no comparison. A debate about capitalism is relatively minor when choosing between thinly-veiled corporatism or concentration camps and open Nazism.