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Democrats need to pull themselves together and remember: Biden is still better than Trump
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Funny how the person we always end up having to unite behind is someone who would have been a republican 20 years ago, and not someone who'll actually try to make change
It's funny how when the threat of fascism looms, you don't tend to have a full array of different choices laid out in a neat menu of candidates to thwart it.
It's almost as if the conditions that create fascism necessarily require and go on to arrange a lukewarm, unpopular candidate as the only other option so rubes can justify not voting when the actual fascist needs them to abstain.
I'm so tired of the people who think they're better than the system and don't fully grasp that we're fighting just to keep some modicum of a democracy.
The conditions for fascism necessarily result in a lukewarm unpopular candidate because the conditions that give rise to fascism are decades of lukewarm unpopular policies enacted out of expediency.
That's a good point. If only left-wing Germans had backed Hindenburg despite his right leanings, they could have won the 1932 presidential election and stopped fascism in its tracks.
Oh, good thing you shot down my point by asserting that fascism is inevitable. That makes the fact that you're enabling it totally fine.
Fascism is inevitable if we count on someone like Hindenburg or Biden to save us, because they either can't or don't want to.
Refusing to act because you are idle daydreaming about a perfect solution is the dumbest way of enabling fascism. So thanks for that.
You are fulfilling your own prophecy of making fascism inevitable. And you don't sound as intelligent to the people who understand what's on the line as you do to yourself.
Thanks again for stating outright that you're cool with fascism as long as a true left wing candidate doesn't exist.
In your opinion, is fascism more of a threat now than it was in 2020?
Yes, explicitly. Trump is campaigning on taking political revenge on the party that "stole" his presidency. Republicans are passing bills criminalizing the bare existence of demographics like trans people.
Dude, I was reading just yesterday that Missouri passed a law making it illegal to view lgbtq content without first identifying yourself.
I live in an area in the south where people talk every day about how democrats are going to hang once Trump takes office because they believe all our problems were caused by Biden. It wasn't like this in 2020.
You think you're setting me up for some kind of gotcha, but you're not paying attention.
Keep day dreaming. It's obvious you don't see the writing on the wall. I'm done playing this game where people like you assert that voting Biden is somehow worse than the power grab republicans are practically advertising at this point.
This conversation is over. Thanks again for wasting your vote.