• piefood@feddit.online
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    1 day ago

    If you like. I can’t help but see continued support for the lesser evil as naively defeatist.

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      Trying to do nothing wrong shouldn’t get in the way of doing something right, we didn’t get here overnight and we won’t get out of it overnight, perfect doesn’t exist but better does, it just feels like roadblocks with no compromise to me. We’re never going to be handed a perfect candidate and things will never be fixed in a single election, it just seems to me like that is an all or nothing argument and that will always leas to nothing.

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        Well, if the Democrats were just doing nothing wrong, I’d be OK with that. But they are doing a lot wrong. Just off the top of my head:

        • Bombing children
        • Torturing innocent people
        • Removing highly-popular social programs
        • Increasing funding to the military and intelligence agencies
        • Deprortations without due process
        • Increasing funding to the police
        • Handing the election to Trump
        • Fighting against healthcare for all
        • Giving taxes to their rich friends
        • Backing a genocide
        • Keeping their friends out of prison

        I’m not asking for a perfect candidate. I’m asking for a candidate that isn’t a monster. But the Democrats aren’t interested in providing a candidate that isn’t a monster.