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Soooo Dems won't make it better but least won't make it worse. If 2 party then easy choice.
Shame people didnt do this 20 years ago and voted gop out of existence.
You need to zoom out. Imagine you're looking back at this moment from 100 years in the future. If people said "the Dems won't make it better but at least they won't make it worse" and just kept the system going, do you think it will ever lead to progress? Will the whole system ever improve?
You need to look for a solution outside of that system. Stop looking for lesser evils in the ballot box. First, look to the people immediately around you and try to join local organizations that might be directly working to improve their conditions (soup kitchens, women's shelters, etc). Then, organize labor: figure out how to join a union, if there isn't one read the IWW (or any other big union near you) manual on organizing your workplace and find support to start organizing your workplace. Then from there, your objective should be to take the workers' struggle to the national and international stage. Change doesn't come from the ballot box, it comes from building alternative power structures ourselves.
I agree with all you said. No it won't improve just give time for gop to age out. Since they are actively making things worse. Least dems aren't trying that hard to deport people or remove renewables.
Though I think change could have happened if 20 mil people voted third party or for Harris instead of sleeping in. Seeing Trump lose twice would have been a great catalyst for changing gop.
Biden deported more people than Trump 1 did. Biden placed tariffs on solar panels and renewables made in China and continued Trump's trade war. ICE was never abolished or defunded, the police were never defunded. His campaign rode on the back of the 2020 protests and then smothered it in its infancy with a pillow.
Well you right on that. sorry I wasn't clear. I mean deport us citizens not just migrants. If trump does deport us citizens wanna bet a dem will not undo it?
No familiar on the solar tarrifs biden did so I cant speak on it.
"I meant deport humans! Not mere foreigners"