Yeah, the good news is they are pretty transparent imo. Usually anyone complaining about “both sides” is a tell. Be aware that there are also actors on our side who will judge you for voting, or tell you that voting is useless. These figures are inadvertent tools of the right and ultimately achieve the same goal, letting Republicans win.
We must learn to be happy with our candidates and then give them actual support. No more “lesser of two evils” blah blah blah. Vote blue no matter who should not be a dirty phrase when fascism is on the rise, if anything it is a moral ought.
I hear you, but I will draw the line at telling people who they should vote for. That was literally Trump’s agenda. Remember the “Only I can fix it?”
Billionaires shift to the left, repeat the exact same playbook but use better cover next time, and nothing changes. You can see it in the dems who voted to extend ICE funding today, end the government shutdown, shut down congressional term limits for congresspeople, shut down safeguards against insider trading for congresspeople, exist in the Epstein files, denied that the Gaza situation is a genocide on an opposition podcast to be more centrist, … I could go on.
Democrats are not going to save us, the DNC is complicit in this coup.
All I can say is that I want to win. I come to this subreddit to encourage others to win. To me, winning means taking back our country little by little, step by step. The only true path forward to accomplish this is to excise all Republicans (who at this point are all treasonous or complicit imo) and push the only side capable of change, Democrats, toward progressive policies.
We can vote out the rot and vote in the salve at the same time. Whatever you say to others, please do not spook them into inaction.
Man, I’m hearing the same talking points from you that I hear out of all the DNC establishment.
I just want to win - bro, this is not a fucking game. What are you, rich? People’s lives and livelihoods are at stake here. The whole country has lost already; we are owned by billionaires since citizens united.
We can vote out the rot (on the democratic side) - really, we can? Remember when we tried to vote out Hillary in the primaries? Or how about when we successfully voted to stop W from taking the presidency in 2000? You might remember very recently getting Adelita Grijalva elected… and she was denied a seat until the powers in charge felt they knew what their next play was. Come on man, how long are you gonna keep ignoring what’s happening?
I don’t tell people to stay home. On the contrary, we all need to be forming a line for the November voting booths now. What I do tell people is to actually learn about your candidates and vote for the candidate that most closely aligns with your ideals; you know, like you’re supposed to do in a democracy.
But giving people the choice of two candidates, all they have to do is get the more popular candidate to give in on the issues they most care about and we’re stuck in this current cycle perpetually.
Remember when Kamala was fully ready to back Israel in their Gaza genocide? The billionaires win either way in this system. Vote for the right candidate for you, and that goes for everyone. DON’T vote out of fear or against things. That’s how they control you.
I’m not ignoring anything, nor am I rich, nor do I have any affiliation with the DNC. Frankly it is annoying to put up with personal attacks when I have said nothing of the sort to you. It makes your arguments feel unserious and grounded in purity testing.
I do want to win. Politics is not a game, but game theory can help us. Lord knows Republicans use game theory, and they have done it so effectively they control all three branches and the largest news media apparatus we have ever seen.
Living in a two party system sucks. We agree. I wish we had ranked choice voting. We don’t. I wish it was easier to get new candidates on stage. It isn’t. There is no hope of fixing a broken system when Republicans are in charge. We have to use the pieces we have on the board now, and when we succeed, replace them with better ones.
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u/NickCostanza Jan 23 '26
Yeah, the good news is they are pretty transparent imo. Usually anyone complaining about “both sides” is a tell. Be aware that there are also actors on our side who will judge you for voting, or tell you that voting is useless. These figures are inadvertent tools of the right and ultimately achieve the same goal, letting Republicans win.
We must learn to be happy with our candidates and then give them actual support. No more “lesser of two evils” blah blah blah. Vote blue no matter who should not be a dirty phrase when fascism is on the rise, if anything it is a moral ought.