Your evil for not supporting the guy arming fascists and facilitating a genocide!
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Oh look, more grandstanding and moralizing from the party currently funding a literal genocide
This crap is fundamentally wrong for a litany of reasons. Firstly, it assumes that all we can do is vote for the least-bad candidate or party, instead of engaging in something more materially helpful. It reeks of low expectations and a lack of strategy, which liberal politicians are more than happy to capitalize on; it's a thought terminating cliche by now, and has been for decades. Only grifters and fools should still be engaging in this in 2024.
It also often implies that, because none of the parties want what we want, we should vote for the candidate most likely to defeat the conservative whack jobs in a given election because conservatives will do the most harm if they’re in government, so it defacto means voting liberal.
But approaching elections with Anyone But the Conservatives/Vote Blue No Matter Who as a guiding principle is dangerously wrong because, as some of our more patronizing visitors fail to understand, it underestimates just how aggressive liberals are in serving the capitalist class, or how apathetic towards human rights they are in general.
It is a liberal government that watched Roe get struck down while doing nothing, after decades that could've been used to codify it. It is a liberal government now that maintains 'migrant camps' on our southern border. It is a liberal government that runs guns to apartheid regimes engaging in ethnic cleansing. It is a liberal government that shot down any hope of increasing the federal minimum wage any time soon. It is a liberal government that has thus far failed to enact any sort of single payer health insurance. It is a liberal government that enacted austerity to try and curb inflation, killing the poor on multiple ends. It is a liberal government that restarted student loan payments when Joe could have ended them with a penstroke. It is a liberal government that completely punted doing anything on ending COVID.
It is a liberal government that is actively, materially harmful to many people.
You wanna guilt me into voting for Joe? Go fuck yourself