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...but the worse of two evils was chosen many times so...this is wrong?
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
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".
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?
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.
Just giving away that you don't think non-white people exist
Yes, non-white people had it so much better in the 50s?
Edit: btw I literally said "civil rights"
Pretty sure donald was the eviler of two evils. The evilist of many evils.
So pick the greater evil next! Problem solved
Or do literally anything other than what you've been doing for all the decades leading up to this point
Like butt stuff?
Pretty sure more than half of these elections we're choosing the worse evil
No offense, but for the population at large, was there a meaningful choice?
The side that really wanted this might have been a smaller minority than the ones that did not, but ultimately they were not only far for violent (in every meaning of the word and method) but also had control of the police and the courts, meaning murderers routinely got away with it while the leadership and even rank and file got murdered, received very long prison sentences that removed them from society entirely, or even got framed for murders and executed or lynched for it.
The average person does not now, or have they ever, dictated anything. Also as it stands there is no such thing as an 'average' person by any metric.
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