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It's delusional to think that anyone would be as bad as this unprecedented administration. What you're doing is like saying Jeff Dahmer and a guy that killed one person are equally bad. There are degrees of awful, and Trump is about as bad as it gets.
Clearly you didn't understand my comment.
"Delusional" isn't an argument, and the rest of my comment addresses why the "degrees of bad" idea isn't relevant at all.
The rest of your comment doesn't make the difference between the Republicans and Democrats irrelevant. It ignores the reality that Republicans are the main baddies making a bad system significantly worse with zero positive legislation. I acknowledged the Dems suck, but there can at least be some progress made with dem leadership. It's not good enough progress, but it's still progress. Because of that by itself, the degrees of bad is extremely relevant.
Look all of the way back to Reagan. Clinton wasn't great, but he was better than his predecessors and was the last president to have a balanced budget before Bush killed it. Bush dragged us into our current political climate and decades of war. Obama continued with military action, but also got the ACA, gay marriage, and weed legalized during his terms. Then Trump had nothing good and divided the country as bad as it's been in my lifetime. Then Biden tried to do some good but was blocked at every turn. I wish he had gone harder to hold people liable, but his admin did pass positive legislation. Including his messy exit, he's still top two best presidents in the past 26 years. Was he great? No, but he did some good. Now we're back to Trump, the worst president for most of our lives. No redeeming qualities.
The US system is broken, and neither Dems or reps are the answer, we need more progressives in leadership to effectively drive the change needed. But change doesn't happen overnight, and in the interim period Dems are a vastly superior option even with their glaring flaws.
It does actually, but you don't seem to acknowledge the uniparty, their homogenous class interests in the Epstein class (not the citizens in either case), and their violence towards both marginalized demographics and war/genocide.
Obama bombed so many countries in his time, and most of the Dems in power did the same thing. There's more than enough shade out there on all of them. Kamala was islamophobic herself.
Additionally, the political system in America has allowed for someone as terrible as Trump to come into power.
While I agree the system is broken and that Dems/reps are not the answer, I disagree that reformism within the system will yield anything. Reformism doesn't work, a radical revolution is needed.
I've said multiple times that both parties suck. That is acknowledgement that both parties have crossover that's bad. Only the majority of one party is fighting to release the Epstein files. I'm not saying Harris would have made a blanket release, but I don't believe for a second that she would have fought to keep them secret the same way Trump has. I'm not going to defend her on what may have happened in the war. Her silence on Israel was not good. However, harris doesn't have a strong history of islamaphobia. I tried to find damning instances from her, but the current Israel/Gaza situation is about the only thing surfacing, and it's not a good look. But she doesn't have a stories history that I can find suggesting this is chronic. Again, not saying she's a saint.
As far as Obama, I mentioned the bombings were bad. Not defending them. I'm just saying that he also successfully passed domestic policies that were good. That's different from any Republican president that has done all of the bombing with none of the positive extra stuff.
I don't think reformism is the answer. I'm just saying that since change takes time, the best option we have is Dems, because they aren't as bad as Reps. I'd take 4 years of almost anything else than the current admin, which is a testament to just how bad it is now and the parity between the alternative. No change is better than worse change, but it does move the Overton window. So yes, we agree the system is fucked. I just believe that the biggest factor is Republicans because Dems do the smallest of good sometimes.
That's a fair enough take, then.