The Democrats really suck. Our FPTP 2-party system is really some bullshit. However, it is really difficult for me to buy into the validity of the slippery slope you are describing when the people around me keep voting for the option that is #1 worst by a whole fucking lot.
And the further that #1 worst keeps surging and lapping #2 on the evil-dex, the further their psycho supporters seem to like it! We’ll see if the pedo shit can finally reverse that.
This would be a different conversation if we’d elected democrats over and over to avoid republicans and somehow still got dragged to the right. At the end of the Obama administration, for instance, there was the concern of the bait and switch.
But no. He gets impeached a couple times for betraying the US in different ways after being openly terrible for years, and dozens of millions of people still turn out to vote for him. He tries some light coup and all the daily otherwise career ending craziness, and they turn out to vote for him AGAIN in HIGHER numbers.
The fact that the democrats are the good cop capitalists to the republicans’ bad cop capitalists is definitely a problem, yes. Any of us who get to vote in the US should be keenly aware of that. And there are multiple things we can try to fix in parallel. But sometimes you have to fix things sequentially too.
Starski@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
What a weird way to deflect from our current president being a pedophile
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Watch it happen.
Starski@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Sure, but that’s not the point I was making.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
This mass abuse would not have been covered up for 40 years if it was not inclusive of elite actors across the board.
And “we have scientifically calibrated how to be exactly epsilon less horrible than the republicans” has been the Democratic strategy since the 1990s.
Look at the UK; Labour is a preview of what the next “democratic” regime in the US will look like.