Gonna Need Yall To Stop Putting Biden Is Just As Bad Propaganda On My Dash. Had To Unfollow Someone Because

Gonna need yall to stop putting Biden is Just As Bad propaganda on my dash. Had to unfollow someone because I don’t want to a start a fight with them over it, but I’m about to bite the next person who puts that shit in front of me.

If you don’t like Biden, vote in your god damn local and mid term elections for third party or further left candidates so that we get better democratic candidates for future elections. But this one is already fucking decided, and I’m NOT ending up under a Trump led dictatorship because yall value protecting your personal sense of moral purity over the collective good. Whether it offends your personal morals to vote for Biden is IRRELEVANT in the face of the alternative.

This isn’t a lesser of two evils situation. One guy sucks. The other guy is LITERALLY PLANNING TO OVERTHROW OUR DEMOCRACY AND INSTALL HIMSELF AS A PUTIN STYLE DICTATOR.

PLEASE look up Project 2025 and stop acting like abstaining is some kind of personal ethical decision!

Kenny from South Park might as well have been an X-Man.

X-Men fans: Oh no! They killed this character! They were my favorite! X-Men fans who've been reading the comics since the 1980s: Oh? They put that character on the bench for a while? I wonder what stories are coming up that the writers felt that guy needed to be gone? I wonder what big reveal will have them return, or will that be a problem for the next creative team?

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On a personal note, having voted third party in 1996 and 2000, I can assure you it did nothing to stop conservative nonsense. The best legal way to push them out of power is to crush them in the voting booth.

We have lived through this before.

People said Gore wasn't good enough, that he was Bland and uninteresting and middle of the road and something had to change. So they voted third party or they didn't vote at all. And the Democratic party didn't wake up, and we got George W Bush and all the absolute hot garbage that came with him.

And they said Hillary Clinton was the wrong candidate, that she was middle of the road at best and conservative for the Democrats at worst, that she was entitled and they were going to vote for a third party or they didn't vote at all or worse yet, they voted for the other candidate as a joke because it's not like those votes change things, you know? And the Democratic party didn't magically wake up, they didn't majorly change, and we are still dealing with the fallout from that.

And that's not only twice in my lifetime, but twice in my voting lifetime. One of the important things you learn in therapy is that you cannot change other people, and you cannot set your expectations based on how you think they ought to react to certain things.

If you are refusing to vote, or voting third-party because of what you think it's going to make someone else do, please reconsider.

If you want to make the liberals or the centrists or whatever you want to call them wake up, you're going to need to do something that hasn't already been done twice in the last 20 years.

Adding my own bit about what Dens do when they lose: they go more conservative and move to the right. After 12 years out of the White House, Clinton won it back by being more conservative than the rest of the democratic field. I won't say Obama did the same thing, but a lot of his policies were to the right of where Regan was in 1980.

If you, like myself, are sick of America sliding into a fascist police state, sitting home and staying out of politics is NOT the way to fight it.

do you really think voting for the dems is going to make a difference?? this is a genuine question.

Absolutely.

Because historically, that's how you get them to move left.

Now, and let me be clear, this is not the only part. Because once we elect them, we have to keep fighting them. It may seem counterintuitive, but in a two party system it is far more advantageous to have someone in power who you can fight and push on issues than to let them lose.

When Democrats lose, they don't go looking to resell the left on them -- they tend to move center, because folks in the center are still voting, and they think they can win those voters over. They don't think about the part of the pie that's missing, just what they can get out of what's remaining.

Now, long term, we need to think bigger. We need to be pushing progressive candidates on the state and local levels. This is because that's where the real battlegrounds are right now. All of our issues with trans rights in the last few years? Largely state based actions. Be active with your school boards and city councils. They have a lot more of an effect on your daily life than the folks in Washington.

This will also help build our "farm team" (to use a baseball metaphor). It's what Republicans spent the seventies doing, and it's part of how they ended up getting so much power.

The Presidency gets all the focus, but in truth we just need someone progressive enough to sign the legislation we want passed. Presidents fuck us over really easily, but rarely have the power to make our lives better. We have to keep that in mind.

We vote for Biden as a stop gap -- the finger in the dam. We then go and build the future on our own.

Push the party Left. Save democracy.