I have remained a voting Democrat since I started voting during Bush. I do not find “both sides” a way to prevent people from voting. I find that Dems have taken to also nominating insufferable assholes, following the lead of the Republicans. But people like paying more attention to crappy leaders than learning how to elect good ones.

Also - Trump hasn’t been as bad as claimed. He has mostly been what I expected for 12 years. Mostly ineffectual and inconsequential. Undeserving of the attention he is given.

given the choice between the benign tumor and the malignant tumor, one is better off with the benign one. refusing to choose just hands it to the malignant tumor by default. furthermore, it’s not about supporting the lesser of two evils but identifying which evil is the worst overall and focusing everything you have on punishing it. refraining from punishing evil is, surprise surprise, AN EVIL ACT

Ashley B noted in one of her YouTube videos (Here we go) that in 2016, the largest focus of social media campaigns by Cambridge Analytica and by Russian assets, targeted black voters in battleground states to encourage them not to vote.

And yeah, the gerrymandering war, voter suppression campaigns, voter caging, election tampering, false rumors of massive election fraud, all these are Republican efforts. When states have free and fair elections to which everyone has access and is allowed to vote, then Democrats win over Republicans.

gotta ask yourself if you want a chance to fix things or no chance at all. with trump, its no chance at all

Multiple things can be true. Both sides are bad, but that’s why the concept of voting for the lesser evil is a thing.

Everybody sucks. But you should still vote.

Well that’s just nonsense. Any criticism of the democratic party, a famously spineless and dismissive organization, is a psyop?

A party that has collaborated with the Republicans the whole way? Going so far as to make ICE one of the best funded militaries in the world?

We need to show the Democrats that being conservative light is not good enough by making it have consequences in primaries.

The lesser of two evils trap demoralizes people and makes them think that this is the best we can hope for from a politician but it’s not, We’ve seen a rise of left-wing politicians lately and we can do better.

We must participate whenever possible and the choices aren’t always great but they do still matter.

So yes, Democrats actively doing less damage than the Republican counterpart, and no it isn’t good enough.

People deserve a world where hope can be a part of it.

It’s either:

• There’s a big fat online conspiracy to deter people from voting in the US even though voting in the US is the thing that truly determines how the country is ruled and other things such as Money, have no or minimal influence in how the US is managed.
• First Past The Post undemocratic voting systems like the one in America create political duopolies, which are populated by people in well entrenched power positions who when not in front of the cameras are basically work mates and protect each other. Further, the extreme political stability of such system attracts people who become lifers in that system, selling their political influence to the highest bidder in order to enrich themselves, and the politicians of both facets of the duopoly have a shared interest that such selling out is either not illegal at all or, when illegal, de facto not prosecuted, so together they’ll change laws and nominate the “appropriate” people to the Judicial system to make sure it is so.

There’s only two parties on the same side, there’s no other side in the USA. Stop trying to say the Democrats represent leftist values.

First of all, half the non voters would vote republican (unless you actually believe democrats are just actually lazier people than republicans?!).

Second of all, 99% of the shit trump does wrong is just plainly wrong under both parties “values.” It doesn’t matter what party this is way bigger than party this is about an enemy of the state controlling the white house.

Also the democrats keep voting to fund his government, instead of shutting the whole damn country down, which is in fact necessary because an active unrepentant child rapist is controlling the white house and he’s starting illegal wars and stealing billions of dollars. So, to vote in the house or the senate for even one dollar of taxpayer money to be entrusted to donald trump as the chomo-in-chief of the executive branch is in and of itself treason worthy of capital punishment.

So yes, fuck the democrats who have voted to pass budgets that hand trump trillions of dollars that he treats as a blank check. Domt tell me dems are the best way to get him out of power, tell me who to vote for to express my desire that the federal government ceases functioning immediately until he gets out. Because this whole lets vote him out ive been hearing it for ten fucking years now and yet here we are. Stop telling me to wait for November, shut the whole fucking thing down today. This guy rapes children and we’re letting him do anything??? Why?? Shut down the government light the constitution on fire because literally zero authority for anything good in the world can exist while the “leader of the free world” is a rapist murderer who is grifting billions of dollars. Like it just has to stop, fuck the vote, just stop this fucking maniac who slathers his face in orange paint and rambles about how the epstein files exonerated him!!

Okay, but there’s a difference between “both sides are bad” and valid criticism of the democratic party.

Getting slapped and getting stabbed are both bad. But not equally bad.

People actually still believe there’s going to be free elections in November… ROFL

Trump is fully intending to pull a Netenyua and call a national emergency to stay in power.

40 plus years of neo liberal policy, that yes have been embraced by ‘both sides’, has been destroying the nation and for some reason people don’t want to admit it.

Not the only way. There are many other, also-successful ways.