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... and that's EXACTLY what you just did. You posed it as "not trusting Democrats enough to vote for them", like you are picking a cabbage or dating, not as YOUR duty to identify the best candidate and voting for them.
As long as tons of voters are prepared to skip voting or vote third party because the least bad politician wasn't up to their standards, we will keep sliding towards fascism.
The problem isn't dems, it's fascists, corporate/billionaire funding, and voters
"not trusting Democrats enough to vote for them"
And there is the bigger reason we are where we are. Yeah, the constant fundraising is irritating and alienating, but not fundraising is a death spiral for politicians. If they don't spend half or more of their time fundraising, they will be toast the next time. If you don't have huge corporate and billionaire donors like Reps, you either constantly beg individuals, or flame out
Because American voters treat it like dating
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BECAUSE IT WORKS!
Your representative spends as much or more time in office trying to raise funds than doing their job because, as I have fucking said, money -> campaigning -> turnout
That is because American voters see voting as a kind of dating game or buying a pumpkin rather than a duty.
As long as large numbers are disenfranchised and even larger numbers don't bother voting, money drives elections and politicians always have their hand out
Both parties have a hand out
Look, yelling childish stuff at me is not going to make any sort of argument.
If you want a good conversation about the role of money in US politics, the effect that "Citizens United" has on voting, and how the entire "money-centric" culture in the US drives towards fascism, then sure, let's discuss that.
But shouting really basic stuff at me is just going to make me think you are an imbecile
@clintruin
Fuck no.
Discordant music and someone screaming at me is not going to get any sort of message to me.
So this is the thing that burns me - people who fantasize about what should happen in a just universe and then blame the ONLY group of people who try to do the right thing but are ineffective. The dems didn't have the clean slate you pretend, Mueller was ALWAYS going to do a slow shuffle to nowhere, and nobody was going to do a rocket docket and throw white conservatives in jail.
So slow clap all you want, Dems didn't create this mess, and shaking a fist at them is dumb
@clintruin
Yah, but that's the party that tries to model the correct behavior and hope for the best, and if they had gone bare metal and thrown a ton of these guys in jail, there would have been an outcry from 90% of the media, the population, and the talking heads
Here's the issue - if you solve a problem before it becomes huge, vanishingly few people will see the value and thank you, but the majority will loudly condemn what you did, because the bad thing didn't happen
@hankg @pluralistic
Just a thought
If you are a teacher with a sign in your classroom that says "Everyone is welcome here", don't resign if your admin says to take it down
Rather eat up their time in a long string of meetings to understand if it was the material, the font, the size, the ink color, ... until, they are like "OH FFS! TAKE DOWN THE SIGN!"
Then replace it with a bigger sign with bold letters that says "No One is welcome here"
Rinse, repeat
Then "Only Some People are welcome here"
etc.