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Your lesser evil over 50 years has grown to an uncontrollably large evil (europe.pub)
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[–] 7 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

...but the worse of two evils was chosen many times so...this is wrong?

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  • [–] 1 point 19 minutes ago*

    Yeah, this doesn't track

    I voted for Nader in 2000 who ran on a platform of getting corporate money out of government. After 8 years of being mad at Clinton for defunding welfare, NAFTA and bombing folks (though still thankful we weren't in the nightmare of the Gulf War,) I felt the difference between Gore and Bush JR wasn't enough and I needed to let the corporate Democrats know they need to work for my vote.

    I also thought there was no way Bush would get elected 'cause he was obviously dumb as a brick, and his daddy was a nightmare that oversaw Iran/contra affair and the failure that was Gulf War. Gore ran on maintaining the balanced budget and was concerned about global warming

    Bush won, bringing about: Record debt Homeland security TSA Iraq War 2 Afghanistan War Repeal of environmental protections SUVs Freedom Fries Cancelling musicians for even slight protest of government 2008 crisis

    Yay

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago (4 children)

    Nope, still 100% correct. It doesn't matter which evil wins, if you shown you're willing to vote for it, that's the new "best we can do".

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  • [–] -1 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

    What was the idea of the "left" in the past? In the 50s the left would never have considered gay marriage as an issue they could remotely even talk about in congress.

    Womens righta Civil rights Gay rights

    So they have moved further left than the left was in the 50s as far as human rights...not further right.

    Unless the drawing is only talking about the very very recent. Like it was drawn by a 20yr old maybe?

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  • [–] 1 point 49 minutes ago

    The culture has moved left, the Democratic Party has moved right in both absolute terms and much more so relative to the culture. Remember when Reagan was a horrible right wing nightmare here to destroy the US economy?

    Remember how Clinton's economic policy was to the right of Reagan and the DNC has been running rightwards ever since?

    Remember when Biden broke the railway strike?

    Maybe before dismissing something as being "by a 20 year old" (especially an image that's been floating around the Internet for most of twenty years), you should take a minute to actually understand what it's saying.

    The median elected Democrat today is to the right of the median elected Republican of 1986 on every issue except for the designated culture war issues they use to differentiate themselves to the politically illiterate.

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