I have a hard time blaming the voters for anything when they live in the most heavily propagandized country on the planet. Ultimately the voters opinions don’t matter when they can be shaped by billions of dollars in ads and media time.
He’s annoying, but he’s right.
If they didn’t want to lose because of protest votes they should have thrown a bone to the protesters before the election.
The DNC chose this, everything else is just an attempt to deflect blame.
Dunno who’s downvoting you, you’re right
American voters have zero agency. We only exist to pay taxes and legitimize the state, which is not obligated to provide us with actual options to vote for.
Are you not aware that draft dodging was a crime?
Inseperability. Codependence. A lack of notable distinction.
Y’know, like how our “two” major parties are the opposite faces of the same capitalist coin.
What does that have to do with anything?
It disproves your BS.
He’s a member of the right-wing monoparty, isn’t he?
He was an independent, switching his allegiance to the monoparty didn’t help him win any federal elections.
You can’t be an independent if there are no parties to be independent from.
You seem to have very suddenly switched from accepting the reality of the American monoparty to suggesting that no parties exist at all. Are you sure you’re arguing in good faith?
Why is Bernie Sanders such an ultra-capitalist far-right Republican?
He isn’t, that’s why he’s not president right now.
I would like an explanation for this because I didn’t realize he was, but your own logic says he is.
You’ve never discussed my logic, you jumped straight from “American political parties only pretend to be separate entities” to “America’s most famous center-left social democrat is actually a right-wing ultraconservative” as if making the latter claim would disprove the former.
Drones can’t search houses for contraband or arrest dissidents.
If Trump starts blowing up whole neighborhoods in search of insurgents he’s just going to manufacture more insurgents.
Tell me if there will be any Republicans left to vote after Trump goes full Blair Mountain on the 60% right-wing Teamsters that refuse to cross a picket line.
There’s a reason why America stopped doing conscription during Vietnam. Turns out that 90% of folks can’t be trained to willingly shoot people and a large fraction of the remainder would sooner shoot their own commanding officer than some poor foreign kid.
There’s a reason why the Democrat superdelegates refused to nominate the most popular American politician in 2015.
The Orange Hitler is on track to take power and you wanna put up a flag to support America’s Chancellor Paul von Hindenburg. XD
What goalposts?
America has a capitalist monoparty that only pretends to be two parties so as to maintain the illusion of choice.
I’m trans and I voted for Harris, asshole.
People like you are why the Democrats thought they could offer nothing and still win.
Stop trying to enforce a Republican-style party line and try building a winning coalition instead.
60% less than the last presidential election. The one Biden won.
Stop blaming third parties for the Democrats’ failure to build a coalition within its own party.
Literally all of the third party voters could have voted a straight Democrat ticket and it wouldn’t have affected a single swing state. Third-party voting was down by about 60% versus 2020.
But you have to admit that RBG didn’t step down during Obama’s term, that they let Republicans keep Merrick Garland out of the SC and gave them that seat, that they didn’t put Roe v. Wade into law during any of the chances they had to do so.
Admit that they were excited about Cheney and Bush’s kids giving an endorsement and never even bothered putting Sanders on stage at a campaign rally.
Admit that their presidential candidate underperformed the abortion-legalizing state ballot measures in every state that had one.
If we’re talking about a distinction without a difference then we can admit that America is a one-party state that only pretends to be a two-party system.
90% of folks can’t be trained to kill.
Half of the remainder would rather frag their own commanding officers than some poor foreign kid.