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You'd rather cross your arms, watch it all burn down and then smugly* say "well it's the best we could do."
All I want is for the democrats to even say they're going to make incremental progress, to pretend they're interested in progress at all, and they won't do that. Maybe if they're scared enough of continuing to lose, they will. I'm not counting on it.
So what incremental progress are you talking about?
Maybe incremental progress from the 16k people in ICE detention when biden took over from Trump 1 would not look like 40k in ICE detention when he left...idk? Maybe Biden could have made incremental progress by not providing Israel with at least $18 billion more in military aid to support the genocide than trump 1 did?
The smallest increment of progress is ceasing military aid to israel to support its genocide of Palestinians. That would be incremental. From there maybe we could see aid to palestine, idk. Fuck you for voting for genocide and then saying I'm the bad guy. There's no "oh they killed 20,000 children last year, and this year they only killed 18,000, that's incremental progress we should be proud of!"
Sir, this is a Wendy's and I'm Canadian. I'm on the sidelines watching the mouth breathing neighbors machine-gun their own feet off.
Hillary sure nailed it with the basket of deplorables comment, but it seemingly applies to the entire body politic.
For the record though: I absolutely would have voted dem versus abstaining. At home I have consistently voted for progressive leftist parties. Last time around I picked Carney. BECAUSE I UNDERSTOOD WHAT THE ALTERNATIVE REPRESENTED. So far I don't regret my choice. I wonder if any of you who stayed home and avoided being a part of the solution regret yours.
I live in a deep red state and voted third party. I don't regret it one bit and will do so again next time.
Lol, you're the one saying "fuck those people who are so smug, not voting for the democrats, even if they support genocide; those people just want to watch the world burn" ... Why are you "sir this is a Wendys"ing me??
I'm serious though, what is the incremental positive change you're talking about here? I want incremental progress. I want a solution to be a part of. I just think it's delusional to think that the democrats as they are are a solution.
I'm from CT; CT was never going to send delegates to vote for trump. All my vote would do is affirm that one more person is comfortable enough with the democrats ongoing support for the genocide of palestinians to vote for them. I'm never going to regret not voting for funding genocide.
You can engage in strategic voting as you see fit, I'm being strategic too. I'm withholding my vote, and I'm not the only one. The Democrats have gotten a pretty clear signal on this: Dearborn Michigan was a sore loss for them and it was lost because arab and muslim democrats simply didn't show up to vote for harris due to her continued support for the genocide of palestinians (will they do anything about it, I don't know. it seems they're trying to suppress their own post-mortem on this https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/18/democrats-2024-election-autopsy - my guess is they'll stick to their usual "how can we be as far right as possible while still picking up just enough votes to beat the republicans?").
And hey, that you're canadian provides an opportunity to show what I mean. Carney won in a landslide...you're sure you couldn't have done more good by staying home or voting NDP or green or whatever and making the liberals bite their nails a little harder? make them think that they actually should be more progressive? Like...the right-winger lost his seat (great, hilarious), and the NDP lost so hard they lost their full status or something, right? Fair enough if you live in a place that it was a close race with the conservatives, but if not, I'm not sure your vote for carney was really all that strategic. Or maybe there's something there I don't understand, please feel free to let me know if that's a terrible example for some reason.
I voted Carney. I'm not the person you're replying to, but I think standing clearly against the principles of the Conservatives was what was most important. I think that's the clearest message and an important one to send at the time.
Fair; I don't have a finger on the pulse in Canada, if there's a risk that the principles of the conservatives are eclipsing human decency in prevalence, then send your message! I expect you'd send the same message by voting for whoever you want to vote for (assuming you'd prefer to vote NDP or Green or whatever), but again, I'm not trying to shame anybody for voting for democrats. If you're not a fascist, vote your heart out for whatever reason you like. That's great. Of course I hope the democrats change, but if they don't change, the best result of that would be they win by the skin of their teeth and are terrified enough that they may change next time. In the US, Donald trump got fewer votes in 2024 than he did in 2020; he's way less popular even in absolute terms despite a larger voting population. The democrats are WAY WAY WAY less popular than they were in 2020. And I hope they take something constructive from that. I want them to win.
I just object to being told I'm a bad person for having any standards whatsoever that would stop me from voting for someone (not supporting genocide is a pretty low bar to clear and democrats are lying on the floor to smash their face into it).
I really don't know how to get this through your heads. Trump could march me personally into a gas chamber and I still wouldn't regret my third party vote. If the reason I die is because I was too unwilling to support genocide, then I will die proudly. I did not adopt my position on this idly, on some lark, with no thought of what it could mean.
If we collectively accepted that genocide was not an acceptable option, there would be no problem, because there'd be now way to avoid the pressure of such a movement. But instead, we have people like you trying to assert that genocide is somehow acceptable and demanding absolute, unconditional support for the democrats, and predictably failing.
What kind of world would we be living in if everyone in history allowed themselves to be limited by what the system (what the people in power) said was possible? We'd be living under a monarchy with chattel slavery.