I feel like posts like these always fail to realize how fucked of a situation US ‘democracy’ is in where you must vote for one shitty candidate because the other is literally a fascist.
Like no actually some people have decided that the entire system is untenable - they no there’s a lesser of two evils, but they refuse to partake of an illegitimate system.
Yeah, but to me that seems worst. If the fascist comes to power by a slim a majority, it’s these ‘honorable’ citizens to blame. Voting is a simple act that holds tons of power. I’m not gonna say that one vote could change the tide, but the past two elections have been slim where key voters in certain states can certainly change the outcome of the election.
If you want to change the system, you don’t fix it by throwing your hands up and say ‘I don’t want to play anymore’. You fix it by voting and pestering the fuck out of your representatives to change the laws.
I mean, our democracy has never been in great shape during my lifetime. Presidential elections have been about damage control for my whole life, and I’m probably just a little older than the average Lemmy user.
Shit sucks and it will get worse. But how quickly is still to be decided.
I feel like posts like these always fail to realize how fucked of a situation US ‘democracy’ is in where you must vote for one shitty candidate because the other is literally a fascist.
Well they’re both in favor of straight up genocide. It’s evolved from one literal facist to two.
“a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition”
Genocide is almost always committed by fascist regimes, but in and of itself it is unrelated to the political system/philosophy. You could theoretically have a perfect democracy where the people vote to genocide another culture and it would not suddenly make their political system fascistic.
America is currently fulfilling all of these conditions with a small mask on. Snowden and Assange and any figure that poses a threat gets thrown in jail. Guantanamo bay is still open.
The fact that Americans are in heavy denial about it doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
You can vote in Russia too by the way. And in China. Must be shining democracies
I feel like posts like these always fail to realize how fucked of a situation US ‘democracy’ is in where you must vote for one shitty candidate because the other is literally a fascist.
Like no actually some people have decided that the entire system is untenable - they no there’s a lesser of two evils, but they refuse to partake of an illegitimate system.
And those people are short sighted morons
Yeah, but to me that seems worst. If the fascist comes to power by a slim a majority, it’s these ‘honorable’ citizens to blame. Voting is a simple act that holds tons of power. I’m not gonna say that one vote could change the tide, but the past two elections have been slim where key voters in certain states can certainly change the outcome of the election.
If you want to change the system, you don’t fix it by throwing your hands up and say ‘I don’t want to play anymore’. You fix it by voting and pestering the fuck out of your representatives to change the laws.
I mean, our democracy has never been in great shape during my lifetime. Presidential elections have been about damage control for my whole life, and I’m probably just a little older than the average Lemmy user.
Shit sucks and it will get worse. But how quickly is still to be decided.
Well they’re both in favor of straight up genocide. It’s evolved from one literal facist to two.
Both support genocide yes, though genocide is not the same as fascism even if the latter almost always does the former.
I’m not quite sure what the the definition of “fascism” is according to you but openly committing genocide does tend to land someone that label.
“a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition”
Genocide is almost always committed by fascist regimes, but in and of itself it is unrelated to the political system/philosophy. You could theoretically have a perfect democracy where the people vote to genocide another culture and it would not suddenly make their political system fascistic.
America is currently fulfilling all of these conditions with a small mask on. Snowden and Assange and any figure that poses a threat gets thrown in jail. Guantanamo bay is still open.
The fact that Americans are in heavy denial about it doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
You can vote in Russia too by the way. And in China. Must be shining democracies