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This bothsiderism has got to stop.
There are real people, marginalized people, who are being harmed tremendously by the current admin that absolutely would not be under a democratic admin.
The corruption is worse than it has ever been with prosecuting political enemies and dissidents.
This idea that you're doing anyone a service by pointing out that neither side is great is doing everyone a disservice by pretending they're anywhere near equivalent.
When politicians no longer respond to democratic systems, they earn public ire whether or not one is marginally better for some folks some of the time.
The violence is worse, because it's cheaper to hire one guy to beat up another guy right now than it is to pay them both off.
If you don't want to read my posts, block me. But this a hideous truth you don't want to face.
We're not getting anything new. We're getting the same treatment we doled out to Muslims and homosexuals twenty years ago.
We're getting what we voted for, Republicans and Democrats alike.
This is not the case though. There are major differences we see every day.
Trans people have their passports editted.
Black and brown people are being disappeared off the streets based on racial profiling, without judicial warrants and who knows what is being done to them.
Social programs such as medicaid that keep millions alive are being gutted
I mean I could go on and on. Its not marginal, and to think its marginal is to live in a privileged bubble.
The violence is also worse.
Neither being criticized nor being obnoxious make your comment any more or less true. The fact that its makes no sense is what determines that.
How can you not realize that regressing 20 years, but for more people is notably worse?
They only just got the right to corrected passports under Biden, and he was barely willing to enforce it. No prior liberal administration gave a shit about Trans people.
Happening for literally centuries. FFS, look up the history of Sandra Bland and Tamir Rice. Both executed during the Obama Administration by local police. This, six and seven years respectively, after the "Obama Beer Summit" that was supposed to kick off something resembling a national reform effort.
Under Nixon, under Carter, under Reagan, under Clinton... I'll spot you this. The PPACA was arguably the biggest reversal of the trend. But because liberals were more wedded to budget math than popular politics, they failed to expand the program into conservative states quickly. So now its that much easier for a Red President to yank it back from blue residents.
Incidentally, what have California and New York and Massachusetts - states with enormous budgets and vast pools of skilled labor - done to close up the gap again? Neoliberal privatization of the New Deal has been half the math on these cuts going back to the Tip O'Neal era.
And you'd still only tell half the story. This is "War on Terror" politics all over again. It's the Drug War. It's the Red Scare. Republicans kick off a national security hysteria. Democrats modernize it, so fewer middle class white people get caught in the dragnet. All the Coke You Can Snort for Ivy Leaguers like Clinton and Obama. 60 months in jail for Keith Jackson, because Bush Sr needed a photo-op.
This isn't new. Operation Wetback, the 1968 police beating outside the Democratic National Convention, the shooting of antiwar protesters at Kent State, the assassination of Harvey Milk, the MOVE bombing, Iran-Contra, the Rodney King riots, The Brooks Brothers Riots that stole a Presidential Election, the opening of Guantanamo Bay and the Middle Eastern Black Sites after 9/11, Iraq War protests and arrests and beatings, Occupy Protests and the mass arrests and beatings, Ferguson and Baltimore, January 6th... none of this is new.
Every one of them was facilitated or ignored by a host of liberal politicians. None of them were prosecuted. We got no Truth and Reconciliation Committees. We always and forever look "forward" as we walk backward into the abyss.
Ah yes, the ol "Slow progress is the same thing as active discrimination" routine. How lovely and nuanced.
Not to mention this is happening without a senate majority and with a supreme court stacked against them.
Once again, you are in bad faith making false equivalences.
This is happening at mass scale and a clear spike from the relatively occasional incidents of the past.
It's like you literally just want things to get worse with this type of nuance lacking thinking.
Look, I could go on typing specific nuances missed for everything you bring up but we'd be wading right past the point that you refuse to acknowledge; that there are clear differences between the parties. Those differences exist today, and they are massive and matter. A third party strategy is a strategy that would guarantee that any leftist policies were made impossible for generations. If anything, trying to spin up a fake republican third party would help your case more.
Its just the math of a winner takes all/first past the post system. Whichever side splits, the people who were closest to it lose severely.
In this case, the neolibs are absolutely your allies vs the right wing fascists. Those are the facts.
Weimer Bidenism failed. They spent far more money and manpower inflating the national security state than entrenching civil rights for minorities.
What the fuck happened to the ERA? Dems gave up on that shit 40 years ago and never looked back. Clinton, Obama, and Biden all presided over legislative majorities. What did they do with them? More cops. More surveillance. More USAs who made a bigger deal out of people growing weed in their backyards than CEOs queuing up the next Business Plot.
Quit pretending I'm some kind of Evil Genie who is making things worse by pointing out the historical failure of your liberal heroes.
You want to go to bat for these hacks? Make a real defense of them. Quit whining because I won't lick the boots of the guy who is 10% less fascist.
Biden should have had every Senator and Executive Official involved in J6 cooling their heels in Gitmo. Instead he fucking handed them the keys to the kingdom four years after they tried to do a lynch mob on Congress.
The neoliberals are joined at the hip with this administration. They came right out and said it the day after the '24 defeat. Lining up to announce on cable news how it was open season on Trans people, Migrants, and Muslims, in retaliation for dismal turnout.
Cut the shit eh?
What is your realistic plan other than pointing fingers, pretending a magic revolution will save you, or pretending third parties do anything different than what I described?
There is none. You are only fighting the only pragmatic way forward that there is.
I'm just some powerless dipshit sitting on the sidelines, noting with increasing horror at the degree of fascism endemic in my own liberal base. I help my neighbors when I can. I help strangers when I find them. I volunteer my time and money to keep the homeless out of harm's way and to warn anyone nearby when I see some ICE thugs on the street.
Beyond that, I'm doing what I can to survive in a nation that's increasingly intent on kidnapping and lynching people at random.
Brother, what's your plan? Clap harder? Wave your little foam finger and throw on another layer of liberal merch?
Or maybe you're hoping to get by as a kapo long enough to see the other side of the regime?
You are worse than powerless. You are actively fighting for the fascists with this nonsense rhetoric that encourages voter apathy and encourages people to be idealistic rather than pragmatic.
And yet this is all sweeping the rain if you continue to push for voter apathy or options that give fascists the win.
I've stated what I think people should be doing and what I think they should have done before.
If democracy survives, they need to, at the top of their lungs, support the democratic neoliberal party they hate so much, and continue to support it through decades of meritocracy until through primaries, local politics and more, they've shifted them right, as every single time they lose, that is an opportunity for the non progressives in the DNC to shift further right, something naive people online simply refuse to understand.
People just don't like it because its unfun, boring, and takes a long time, but that is the only practical way in a broken, slow system where for the types of changes they want to happen, you literally need progressives to have control over the party, the house, the senate with a super majority and the presidency.
Those are just the facts. Until then, your goals should be to keep the democrats in place to stop the house from being lit on fire.
You don't have to like it, no one does. You just have to realize that that is factually how it is.
Right now though? We're all fucked because you didn't do that before (and because a large portion of normal folks kept treating politics as if it were just this separate thing they could compartmentalize and ignore, thinking the trump admin round 2 somehow wouldn't be worse than 1). Right now, resistance is all you can do. Supporting the mayors, senators and governors who try to resist, protesting, protecting people from ICE through warning, scaring them off, etc.
Charlie Kirk tier logic.
You can't just call every argument that makes you uncomfortable charlie kirk tier.
Comparing everything you don't like, illogically, to the argument of a white supremacist is extremely obviously in bad faith.