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As shitty as it is, this country 1. Isn't designed in such a way that would allow a third-party candidate a genuine chance of winning and 2. Has too many centrists that will vote for Biden regardless. Trump has repeatedly garnered heavy support in Republican polls, so they're pretty much almost all in on him. Splitting the blue vote between Biden and whoever else will only lead to a Trump victory after which we might not even be ABLE to vote in 2028.

I'm legitimately having a panic attack. These airheaded anarcho-kiddies are genuinely going to land us all in camps.

biden's doing literally nothing to stop states from criminalizing lgbt people's existence emilie-pain

their fears about a trump presidency are valid but i wish these libs would stop putting their hopes in the DNC when its clear they have zero interest in running a candidate that isn't complete dogshit

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[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 66 points 4 months ago

America is literally in the same state as late 1920s Germany except that there are no Communists fighting fascism. Democrats will keep bringing politics rightwards and eventually you'll have someone as bad as trump in power because Muh election of the Century will be fought between Mega Hitler and Omega Hitler and you'll have to choose which one is the lesser of two evils.

[-] Kestrel@hexbear.net 46 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I see waaaaay too many center left pieces that are like "Weimar Republic now??" that completely ignore the fact that there is no The Left in the U.S.A. much less any kind of real SPD equivalent.

[-] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago

The Democrats are very much an SPD in the sense of "national-chauvinist warmonger party that deliberately alienates anybody to the left of them while hoping that the worst centrist reactionaries are willing and able to hold back fascism with them when they are actually neither", but you can admittedly argue that they are very unlike the Weimar era SPD when it comes to healthcare or having functional infrastructure or all the other things that got permanently declared impossible utopianism under Reagan.

[-] Kestrel@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

Yeah that's what I meant. Their positions on what workers deserve and what society at large should be like was still far left of American Dems.

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