I get it, you are “on the left.” You would have voted for Obama a third-time if you could, Biden was the next best thing obviously. Anyone who implies differently is an “asshat.”
Yea, I never once claimed to have agency in our system, and the liberal rallying cry about voting is absolutely an example of that. What are you actually upset about? That I am accurately describing our shitty society?
I vote and I have voted in every federal election and most of my local elections since I was first eligible to vote in 2000. But I never vote for the “Bad” choice, nor the “worse” choice. I always vote in the primary of the majority party which was usually Dem, but in Texas I voted in the GoP primary. When it comes to the General Election, locally you have no excuse to vote for bad or worse, you typically have multiple candidates, some that are even good. On a federal level, there is no reason to vote for bad or worse either because even in swing states, voting for “Bad” means you support the bad, telling yourself the alternative is “worse” is just a coping mechanism and ensures no one will ever get any other choices.
I disagree with your characterization of even a majority of 2016 Trump voters. But I don’t want to re-litigate 2016. I just want to remind you not to dismiss wide swaths of the country for classist reasons, and using term like “yokel” or whatever classist term you love to use to otherize isn’t helpful.
I get that you can wring your hands and call the cages Obama built “holding cells” or whatever, but let’s get your definitions straight.
Now as far as the voting process, I don’t believe there has been any fraud that has affected a presidential election in any way that matters, except POSSIBLY Florida in 2000, but even then I wouldn’t put a lot of stock in it. But the important part about America’s sham democracy is that the choices are rigged from the start. You don’t get to vote for an environmentalist, you don’t get to vote for a leftist, you don’t’ get to vote for a candidate that will dismantle the CIA, that will recall 100% of America’s armed forces, that will stop supporting Israel, that will stop sending cluster munitions to Ukraine. The only thing you get to vote for is which flavor of Capitalist you prefer. You also don’t’ get to vote for reforming our first past the post system. So given this reality, why should I give fuck that the Red Capitalist technically matches some Ivory Tower definition of Dictator, but conveniently the Blue Capitalist is just shy of that definition?
By the way the Biden administration is still holding children in cages.
Debating these minute differences sounds like Manufacturing Consent to me.
If you are referring to religion, then just say that? I’m no fan of the christian right, but fortunately they are more of a boogie man these days as opposed to the 80’s and 90’s. For the uneducated, well if you want to continue to not give a fuck about them, then I’m sure all the people in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana will surely be lining up to vote for whatever out of touch liberal you are supporting instead of the person who actually engages with them.*
*In this hypothetical, Trump was the person who actually engaged with them, and he won in 2016 because of that outreach.
I don’t’ understand how you can say that Trump being elected is a dictatorship, but Biden being elected is a healthy democracy. Either America’s democracy is illegitimate (I Agree), or you are just mad that the other team won. Pick a lane.