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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, there is profound love of Fascism on both sides of the aisle in the US at the moment.

Which is why, IMHO (and FYI, I'm not American hence have no emotional stake on it) the only option for American voters who don't want Fascist-lovers running their country to make things better (rather than merely slow the worsening of things) was to send a message to the leadership of the party that can more easily move away from the whole Fascism-loving business, so that in the next elections they field a candidate which is not a Fascist lover.

The US is so ridiculous undemocratic that the only possible way to chose improvement with one's vote is for traditional Democrat voters to refuse to vote so that the Fascist-loving Democrat candidate barely wins or even loses - which means enduring 4 years of Trump - to try and scare the DNC to field a less Fascist candidate next time around. All this is a stupidly long shot because there are so many ways the DNC can react to it that don't really move the party leftwards.

That's it. That's the only way one's presidential vote in the US can be used to improve things. A ridiculous long shot with 4 years of pain until things might get better. The useful idiots getting the DNC of the hook for its electoral defeat by blaming "lefties" sure aren't helping the DNC get the message from the electorate and fielding a candidate who is not a Fascist-lover.

By the way, all this is entirely consistent with the view that Democrats are closer to not being Fascists than Republicans are. I'm not at all disputing that Trump is worse, I'm saying that if the Democrats aren't turned around from the current trend in the "evolution" of their politics, it's pretty much guaranteed that there will be US Presidents in the future who are even worse than Trump and hence that it is logic (though risky) to use one's vote now to punish the Democrat leadership in order to change the type of candidate they field in future elections.

PS: I dispute that Israel has only sped up their genocide after Trump won the election - it seems to me the speeding up predates that, having happened still well in the period of the Biden Presidency and before the next president was known. It's hard to pinpoint it, but might even have happened when Kamala Harris made clear her unwavering support for Israel, hence the Zionists knew that no matter who ended up as POTOS they were unwaveringly suppported by future POTOS. Then again, maybe it happened when enough hospitals were destroyed by Israel that the dead in Gaza stopped getting counted properly hence the numbers published in the International Press stopped going up significantly. That said, all that is irrelevant for the point I'm making as I accept that Republicans are slightly more Fascist-loving than Democrats.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I mean, we could pass state level electoral reform so we could be free to vote outside the 2 party system with no spoiler effect.

Republicans are passing laws in their states to protect First Past the Post voting. Why do the democrats want to use the voting system republicans prefer? Don't democrats support democracy?