Open fascists weren’t on our ballots until recently
Nixon was fash af. Reagan wasn't much better. The white Christian nationalism of the modern conservative movement has been around for a long time
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Why didn't they do this in 2020?
2020 had some of the easiest voting rules in US history, with universal no excuse mail in.
Democrats were more likely to mail in votes than Republicans. So (largely Republican) states cracked down on mail in voting shortly after the election.
The participation plunge you're seeing is largely the result of that decision
the majority of women voted Trump as well!
White men and women specifically
Or do you actually want democracy?
I want good policy.
If my democracy is producing bad candidates and bad policies, what purpose does it serve?
your alternative to democracy, given your claim about its purpose in “keeping capitalists in power”.
Capitalism is serviced by the illusion of choice in a functional monopoly. The solution is to break up the monopoly.
But that's a Herculean task.
most of America
One American in five.
He endorsed the best chance there was to stop fascists from taking power
He endorsed them as a last resort when all else had failed. And he immediately became a scapegoat for Clinton after she, too, failed.
What makes Sanders good isn't his relentless flogging of the turds the DNC push out every four years.
It’s not his fault the dems keep royally fucking it up
No. But I dread to see what kind of hack he's replaced with when he retires
The men at the top maintain their position by deflecting the consequences of their exploitative policies onto the lower rungs of the ladder.
These points are only achievable by voting for candidates who advocate for such policies which is admittedly a long shot
Politics is the art of the possible. The entire job of political leadership is to advocate for policy change.
No need to invade when their economy collapses internally and Beijing can step up to buy the whole island out from the bargain basement bin.
Unironically what we're going to hear Trump say. But also, there's so much money in imports, I can see this plan getting bottled up and strangled in Congress very easily.
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Put two policies on a coin and flip it. Half the time you'll get good policy. No democracy required.
Democracy grants input from a broad base of social perspective. But if that persective is polluted by propaganda and haunted by historical bigotry, you'll get out what you put in.
An apartheid democracy is less preferable than revolutionary anarchy, even if you didn't all get to line up at a voting booth and decide to overthrow the corrupt establishment
If you can consistently violate a set of rights, they aren't inalienable. Pretending social obligations and taboos are written into the stars is what gets us some of the more destructive social impulses (abortion clinic bombings, white power marches, etc).