Vote Blue, just don’t forget that we are still likely going to need to take to the streets and take action anyway in case Republicans do not step down peacefully, or they ratfucked your state’s elections.
Never forget that Republicans broke the social contract between us and our government by ignoring Due Process and breaking the very foundations of the trust in our legal system. They should not longer be protected by said Social Contract, they do not get to have Due Process after they wiped their asses with it.
Make sure you vote for candidates who will refuse to oust the fascist party, and will enable them to continue their fascism in two years. Vote blue no matter who!
Grumble grumble, guess I’ve got to hand this one to the liberals.
But if I vote for 60% of my interests then I still loose!!?!
Choice 1: 60%
Choice 2: 30%
Not choosing: 0%
Choose wisely.
I think/hope it was sarcasm.
Some Americans will justify not voting by using Palestine as an example. Well, yeah, your dems suck too but it’s not a reason to not take action. Voting is easy enough, and at least it really works. Fantasizing about the Revolution won’t do shit.
I’m getting people posting in trans communities telling me not to vote for democrats.
Makes you wonder what percentage of them are foreign adversaries trying to weaken the US (and its allies) - or simply help fascism - by helping the GOP.
Sure, they all say they simply want the US to stop being fascist, but telling people not to vote for Democrats in the General definitely isn’t helping that.
Same people, different disguise, specially on Lemmy.
Some Americans will justify not voting by using Palestine as an example.
Don’t forget foreigners posing as Americans to help encourage voter apathy among Americans (so the GOP can win).
I remember back in the 2010s the argument for not cracking down on the far right in the USA was that that would trigger a civil war. We saw on J6 how many would show up to fight on their side. They were all there. Now, unfortunately they control the military, so it’s much harder.
Coward liberals always paving the road for the fascists that come after them.
Bus stop metaphor. Even if we cant take a train directly where we need to get to, at least we can take a bus in the correct direction.
Best mental description ever. Even self described republicans can surely grasp this idea to be rid of what we have now. I’m heading over to the Library this afternoon to vote early :) ive never voted a straight ticket before. Sort of excited.
Also voting is a way to shift the Overton window. If the left wing party has a thumping majority, those in the party with more radical views (like being against genocide /s) actually have room to manoeuvre and pressure their leader, or even to split off and form their own party.
Exactly. People can’t just fix everything in one go. And having a “left” majority will at least give a chance to shift the narrative.
In the absolute worst case, the Dems are equally as bad as the GOP on Palestine (though I haven’t seen many Democrats support building Trump resorts over the rubble).
In that worst case, then Palestine isn’t on the ballot, and you shouldn’t base your vote on it, but on everything else happening. The lesser of 2 evils isn’t an exciting vote, but it is, in fact, a lesser evil and preferable to the GOP.
No, in the absolute best case, Dems will be even worse than Republicans so far. But still less bad then what Republicans would become if they got another term. So yes, vote for them, if it makes sense in your state. Just keep your expectations in check.
Here’s the proof: (1) US capitalism at it’s current stage of decline absolutely needs fascism to survive. Profit rates are just too low, any semblance of democracy would be used by the people to prevent pushing real wages even lower, but that’s needed for the engine of the dying economy to sputter on. The empire is dying, no way around it. Like every single time fascism has occurred in history, it will rise this time too, to save capitalism in crisis.
(2) The Democrats are a capitalist party.
(3) Ergo, the Democrats will urgently push to hasten the march towards fascism.
This is not even a prediction, just an observation, a simple statement of fact. You can’t reform your way out of the cold, mathematical laws of economics.
Revolution is not a “fantasy”, it’s literally the only viable alternative to unimaginable suffering. Voting for Democrats can only serve to buy time to organize for real change. In the coming necessary struggle, Dems are the on the same side as Republicans and on the opposite side of humanity and life on earth.
Sounds about right to me.
Too soon dude, save it for after the resource wars.
Dude, are you for real? Touch some grass, not everything in life is capitalism.
Capitalism currently controls nearly every aspect of society. We are all living in a fascist world, don’t get butthurt when it is pointed out.
Voting is easy enough, and at least it really works
Provided your definition of “works” is to preserve an untenable status quo against the people who want to make it worse, then sure.
For those of us looking for actual improvement, voting hasn’t “worked” in over 50 years.
Get the fuck out of here with your fascist apologia bullshit. “BuT vOtInG dOeSn’T wOrK” in a thread literally about voting working. What the fuck do you expect to accomplish with that pathetic, defeatist loser attitude? “Oohh waaah voting doesn’t help so I’ll just sit here and do nothing but discourage everyone else around me to not vote either and then complain more when things get worse and worse”
Wallow in your misery by yourself instead of trying to drag an entire country into your whiny bitchbaby bullshit too
I question these comments when I read them.
Do you live in the US?
I can promise you it was much different under Obama, Biden and Clinton.
Are you doing anything about it? How do you actually see it happening? Real questions.
And yeah, I mean, it’s a shitty vote, but it’s harmless to go and just do it. It CAN be worse if you don’t. Fuck, even my compatriots vote while being under dictatorship.
Hungary, Brazil, Serbia, Slovenia, possibly Israel, have all rejected Right Wing governments, and Europe has been fighting hard against Right Wing challenges. The Right is struggling hard, and generally not winning. Their biggest prize, the United States, is working to reject them as well.
For what it is worth the Serbian incumbent led the neoliberals and the student list coalition is a big tent opposition movement. And the Slovenian election saw a shift towards the far-right with a supporter of the outgoing Vucic in Serbia gaining the seats the incumbent lost.
Even in Brazil, with Lula’s win you also see a swing in their parliament of liberal parties falling to far-right part gains.
There’s positivity abounds with these elections, but let’s be clear: The Right is only struggling if the billionaire class is struggling.
Do you know the party landscape in Israel?
Netanyahu’s party won.
Please please please, America. Get your orange, shit stained, geriatric, pedo rapist, despotini
into an electric chair,prison,care, under control. We’re begging you! -The rest of the worldAnti-fraud measures played a huge part as well both in Hungary and Serbia. Groups of volunteers hung around voting stations, spotting and reporting irregularities. Sometimes getting threatened by burly men who brought dozens of impoverished people who sold their votes in vans and stuff like that. They’re the unsung heroes of these elections.
I didn’t know they organized to this extent. That’s awesomey thanks for the link.
There haven’t been many English-language articles on the topic - I’m trying not to be paranoid about it, but it crossed my mind that it’s a bit suspicious. With Trump’s history and interference intentions, I think the importance of citizen preparation and organization cannot be overstated.
I hadn’t read anything about this in Finnish either. What languages have there been articles in?
I’ve read a few in Hungarian. Here’s one about the Hungarian election, here’s another about the Serbian election. Maybe machine translation can help?
But you know what? The documentary the Hungarian volunteers made to raise awareness is available with both English and Finnish subtitles on YouTube! It’s a bit long, but it might be worth a watch!
I don’t think I’ll survive 16 more years of this
Thankfully, I doubt trump will either. The sooner the better!
I’m sure the CIA has a heart attack gun. If they really wanted rid of him they could be rid of him.
I suppose the problem really is he’s a symptom rather than the cause. Getting rid of trump doesn’t do anything about the Republicans who allowed this to happen in the first place and were totally okay with it even when he started killing people.
Unless America deals with those people the possibility of returning to a trump like regime always exists.
It’s why Europe no longer trusts the United States, even if a Democrat replaces trump there’s no guarantee that things won’t go back to the way they are now in four years time. That is not an ally that can be relied upon.
Getting rid of trump doesn’t do anything about the Republicans who allowed this to happen in the first place and were totally okay with it even when he started killing people.
Yep, we’d need to undo Citizens United, arrest/disband the entirety of the Heritage Foundation, expand the Supreme Court seats, set term and age limits for all politicians/officials seeking office, and that’s just the bare fucking minimum.
The problem is Vance can’t have 2.49 terms yet.
As soon as he can, trump will either die or be 25thed
I suppose the problem really is he’s a symptom rather than the cause
Yes, but he’s a symptom of Neoliberal Capitalism, which is a bipartisan disease. Clinton ending Welfare as we knew it is just as much responsible for Trump as Reagan gutting unions.
All guns are heart attack guns if you know how to aim.
The CIA has always been conservative
Not only don’t listen to the “both parties are the same” people - get them out of your life, block them, move on to giving your time to people who believe in change. It’s not naive to believe in making progress, it’s naive to think it won’t take hard work and have lots of setbacks.
Both sides are the same can be progressive as well. You have to know that voting won’t solve your problems while seeing that it can give marginal improvement.
Yeah the important thing is you do something to actually try and help improve the situation on the ground.
Absolutely. Let them wallow in their defeatist echo chambers. The word for people who insist you can never win is Losers.
Both sides are the same. In that they both serve the Epstein class.
But one side wants to give you health care.
The other side wants to let you die because Line Go Up!
The wild thing is that republicans are conservative and democrats are centrists.
By “both sides,” people seem to mean right and middle.
Can we have an actual left?
But one side wants to give you health care
Well, part of one side. There are Dem politicians who either don’t support M4A or only support it when it clearly has no chance of succeeding and thus their support will be irrelevant, dropping that support when it starts mattering.
I’m kind of there with you.
“Both sides are bad” = true.
“Both sides are the same” = false.
Both sides are bad, but we stand a better chance of fixing the one that actually wants us to have elections.
And really ‘both sides’ are bad because we let them be. More attendance and information for primaries and choices would probably be a hell of a lot more palatable in most places.
One side is:
- raping children
- murdering US citizens
- dismantling the healthcare system without the required approval
- bragging about tampering with voting machines
- starting trade wars and
- starting actual wars.
The other side, for all their faults, are not doing all that.
But they are enabling it and sending an insane amount of money to a genocidal, fundamentalist, child trafficking colony that uses its excess wealth from this corrupt system to keep supplying weapons and money to continue an ever expanding genocide. So that’s not great
Not great, but still better than doing the first list AS WELL AS THE SECOND.
Yes but I’ve been voting blue no matter who for over 20 years. My parents and grandparents died voting blue no matter who for thier entire lives and things keep getting worse and more corrupt and fascist. We need a revolution. These politicians aren’t scared of us and that’s a real problem
You should go back and study revolutions critically. I think you are romanticising revolution quite a bit and the reality is most revolutions are just another group of wealthy people taking control.
“Some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.”
Genuinely curious, has hungary managed to undo any of orban’s meddling in the interceding months? I assume the answer is no.
Actually Peter Magyar, the new president, pass laws to ban Orban from returning to power and purged Orban-appointed officials.
the new president
He’s the prime minister. President of Hungary is András Baka.
It will take years of work, but they made a great start on it.
Except Hungary is a mostly reasonable country that had one major bad actor. In recent history, it has invaded 0 countries, forced its interests on another 0 countries, and caused the deaths of 0 civilians.
Whereas the US has had nothing but extremely bad actors. Ever since its foundation it’s been doing hardly anything but genocide and meddling in other countries’ processes.
Hungarians could choose a relatively reasonable opposition. Even if far from perfect, still a meaningful upgrade.
Americans can only choose between genocidal pedophiles. Even the best possible presidential candidate will be a barely noticeable improvement. At best.
This is not a fair or reasonable comparison.
In recent history, it has invaded 0 countries, forced its interests on another 0 countries, and caused the deaths of 0 civilians.
It just had a russian puppet government and tried to prevent the EU from sanctioning Russia and supporting Ukraine. I suppose this could have caused the deaths of quite a few ukrainian civilians.
no
ML kid spotted
The Republicans are going to expand their majorities, In fact I never expect the Democrats to meaningfully hold power ever again. The overton window has shifted too far to the right.
The 19th will be repealed by 2040
Marriage Equality by 2030
At some point, sodomy laws are coming back alongside bans for gender affirming care for adults.
Why do you think Republicans will expand their majorities? Polls indicate it’ll be a bloodbath in favour of Dems.
Polls also said Hillary and Kamala would win
Well Clinton yeah. For Harris polls were more split and virtually all of them were within the margin.
Whom does this doomsaying help?
People need to be aware of the truth, it’s over.
Your personal predictions ≠ truth.
What’s the plan then? Put more chum in the water while in it and expect the shark will leave some alive?
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