Where along the DNC’s journey to the right do you hop off? Is it never? When do you hop off the electoral trend and join the Revolutionary trend?
And what is this revolutionary trend doing? Is there a plan? Because “let’s get Trump elected and hope for the best” really isn’t a great pitch
Can we convince them that billionaires are eating pets
Lol you’re the one not making any sense, but sure
FTPT is just another convenient fearmongering excuse.
No, it’s reality.
I know very well how it works.
I don’t think you do. Biden has nothing to do with it. Democrats have nothing to do with it. Go read up.
Ok, sure? But as long as we have FPTP, your choices are Democrat or Republican. Or bank on the Green Party winning the Powerball, I guess.
It’s not a matter of politics. We could be voting on which salad dressing to use, and FPTP will always devolve into only two parties (Caesar and Italian, perhaps?). Go read those links I shared.
And without something like RCV, the greens can never win.
You’re presenting a safe with the key locked inside.
What false premise?
The revolutionary isn’t loyal to party, only principle
So the principle you are loyal to is…we get to be led by Democrats or Republicans, forever and forever?
No, you are flat out wrong. Read the links I shared. Statistically, it is nearly impossible for a third party to win under FPTP; you may as well buy lottery tickets. The most a third party can do is create a spoiler effect. This is regardless of being on the ballot or campaigning a lot.
The voting system must be changed. Neither the Democrats or the Republicans will advocate for this, however, since they both enjoy having roughly half the pie.
largest obstacle maintaining duopoly
The duopoly is maintained by First Past the Post. If we want meaningful change, we must change the voting system.
https://ncase.me/ballot/ http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/ https://cdsmithus.medium.com/simulating-elections-with-spatial-voter-models-1ff50892390
You ever see how many pairs of safety scissors are in a kindergarten classroom? What did you think all those were for?
Transition lenses, baybeeee
The fucking magnet in the junkyard scared me so much
“open to” it is good, sure, but I want her to champion it. Bully pulpit and all that
The real issue is that it was vanilla. Vanilla = white, and white = jizz.
Now if it’s cookie dough, that’s manly, because it takes real suck strength (like a Dyson vacuum cleaner) to be able to slurp up those nuggs through a straw.
Medicare for All. The insurance pyramid scheme is getting more and more insane
Kamala: “I won’t raise the capital gains tax as much”
Shortly thereafter: "she’s good for the economy’
These rich fucks have us bent over the table. Any time one of them says something will be 'bad for the economy", interpret it as a threat and it makes way more sense
I wonder if that’s even true. Sure, corporations aren’t black-bagging people in the night (yet), and the VOC genociding entire islands was many many years ago, but who put lead in gasoline and lied about its safety? Who covered up decades of climate change research? Why are we inhaling a credit card of microplastics every week? How are property management companies colluding on rents to create price floors and evict families?
Or here’s something forward-looking:
If Albertsons and Kroger are allowed to merge, do you think that’d be a good thing for American food security? If the government was not powerful enough to stop the merger, what should the citizenry do?
limiting the scope of the government, which is one of my biggest political values
Why?
Smaller government = bigger corporations. And corporate control = everything goes to shit. We’ve reached maximum shareholder primacy.
And it’s not like we can “vote with our dollar” anymore, with how consolidated everything is. For example, consider the attempts at boycotting Nestle…
Ok. Which is yours? What’s your pitch?