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Abortion rights were repealed under Democrats, trans rights are being repealed under Democrats, police budgets have increased in response to BLM, and non-stop war is completely bipartisan.
Both sides ARE bad, just because one of them sometimes offers tepid opposition doesn't make them good. Democrats are not on your side either.
What an absurdly simplistic view of things. All you're doing with this "both sides" bullshit is encouraging more people to sit out the process which is how we got here in the first place. Shame on you, do fucking better.
Hey so I am empathetic to your point, but also have some disagreements.
I voted for Biden, and will again. But both sides are bad. One side is definitely worse, but doesn't change the fact that dems are status quo, pandering, old money pearl clutchers who greatly benefit off of for profit criminal justice, and the suppression of working class. They are not my ally.
I'm really tired of the "perfect is the enemy of good" dnc party line, while we allow good enough to be enemy of better.
Just my thoughts. Also alot of the liberals act like this is sports or some shit. If you browse the conservative communities and the liberal ones, both sides are literally just mirroring eachother, instead of going after the people who put us here in the first place.
I'm a lefty, and american, and the politics here are rigged. I don't really blame the people who sit out tbh. They're up against a power, that quite frankly, will take a fair amount of upheaval to take care of. And no one wants to do that. It's a shitty state of affairs.
I really hope we can get money out of politics, and have viable 3rd parties..but tbh, the dnc would try to stop that, so...they aren't my true ally, just cause the other side is worse.
Our voting system (first past the post, winner take all) is keeping us in the two party system better than anything else the dnc could do. Let’s see them support ranked choice or similar.