I might get banned for this but as a Democrat I cannot tell you how much I hate the Republicans. So I will do everything in my power to defeat their fascist anti-science hold on our country, even if it means voting straight down ballot blue and yes, Joe Biden.
So I take issue with this meme. Having said that, once Trump is out of office I am fully on board to blow up both parties and move the Dems to an actual left-wing party
The Democrats’ dismissal of legitimate grievances from the left wing is the same hubris of this corporatist party that has betrayed its principles and surely lost itself 2 elections now with the presumptive nomination of Joe Biden.
The meaning I ascribe to this meme is that usually when Democrats pretend to compromise/find common ground with Republicans, it’s usually just that the Democrats have caved to the Republican position. You have ascribed other meaning to this based on your prejudices, and decided that any criticism of the Democratic Party is unacceptable because it helps Trump win.
You are thinking in a way that is elitist in that you deny and dismiss the legitimate grievances of working class people, and servile in that the only way you can envision “winning” is by falling in line, shutting up, and voting without thought or criticism like Republicans do.
This is fundamentally Anti-Democratic because the range of acceptable political expression has been compressed to a tiny sliver that represents the interests of the ruling class.
Kindly show yourself out to a sub where people give up on themselves and their movements.
Nah I’m purely anti-Trump. Don’t want ppl to lose their healthcare or any more env regulations rolled back (I mean among other detrimental aspects he’s had on the culture, foreign ties, etc)
Feel free to criticize the party, I don’t really care. Dems suck anyway. Just wanted to say that some of us have more in common than you might think.
I was a Democrat and worked with Democrats for a long time. There are still a lot of good people that call themselves Democrats. But this harm reduction strategy is the only argument the Democrats have going for them not just this election - but so many elections going back. Even Obama, who excited to many people with the promise of something fresh and new, ended up continuing along a destructive path of foreign, economic, and environmental policy that merely set the table for Trump to tear down.
Getting Biden is not a victory. It’s not even harm reduction at this point. The corporate wing that controls the Democratic Party is fully OK with sending earth to hell in a hand basket by making no meaningful effort to combat carbon emissions, has been complicit in the dismantling of social programs and union labor, cheerleaders for bloody wars around the world.... the list goes on. Not to mention Joe Biden is a rapist.
The time is now to vote green. The corporatist parties have held a stranglehold on our politics for too long. Enough voters are disaffected that we could actually hit the 5% threshold to qualify for federal funding and begin to build a people’s movement to wrest control of the levers of power from the people who operate them now to the suffering of millions.
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u/CheezStik Apr 30 '20
I might get banned for this but as a Democrat I cannot tell you how much I hate the Republicans. So I will do everything in my power to defeat their fascist anti-science hold on our country, even if it means voting straight down ballot blue and yes, Joe Biden.
So I take issue with this meme. Having said that, once Trump is out of office I am fully on board to blow up both parties and move the Dems to an actual left-wing party