Look, my dude. The democrats were basically just trailing the republicans by maybe 12 years.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Holy fucking shit.
Do you not remember the Republicans OR the Democrats 12 fucking years ago?
At best, this victory would have bought us just a few more years of uneasy status quo and failing to address the causes and conditions that brought us to this point. As things were, we were getting our Nazi arc sooner or later.
Oh, great, the "Let's just get it over with" argument.
Until we address the conditions that brought us to this point, we would, at any rate, inevitably tip into open fascism; shutting up, falling in line, and hoping that they’ll win if we don’t think bad thoughts about the democrats won’t fix it. Let’s face it, there wasn’t a political appetite for fixing it in the next four years, as there wasn’t in the last four years (see: Merrick Garland). We needed to fix it, and we still do.
Oh, okay, so are we in a better position to address those conditions now that Trump was elected, or worse?
Worse?
In every sense?
Huh.
That you're sitting here saying the Dems were just following the GOP and that the Dems are 'Diet Nazi', more now than they were previously, is exactly the kind of fact-free vibes-based fucking politics that I expect from my fellow Americans, and that fascists leverage so easily into voter apathy. I suppose it was stupid of me to expect people who took enough of an interest in politics to discuss it to have higher standards.