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We have Biden because of Trump. And we will get whomever is opposite of Trump again.
Having a two party system where one party is apeshit crazy means the other party can suck too, as long as it doesn’t suck as bad as the other.
This is why we have the US political game producing no results for the people.
I’m a liberal but we need a strong Republican Party if you want to see a strong Democratic Party and a strong America.
@chonky
@SocialistStan@mymastadon.link -- Yes. Because without a decent partner across the aisle, nothing gets done. The Republican party can't even govern themselves. The GOP Primary is a circus, and the Republican voter is still leaning toward Trump. If all the Democrats need to do is defeat crazy, we will always get the status quo candidate.
Without Trump, we wouldn't have Biden.
:EA DATA. SF: Our two-party system sucks real bad, but I'm going to vote for fucking Biden because I'm a transgender woman taking care of a disabled woman and if Trump or the current crop of Christofascist Republicans obtain full power, both of us will be subject to the full might of the US government.
@jrdepriest -- If we didn't have Trump, we could have had Bernie...
We're stuck with the lesser of two evils...
AGAIN.
@jeffowski
Even Bernie would have been a compromise but Trump is a disaster, just the worst nuclear disaster trainwreck.
@jrdepriest -- We are all stuck "voting blue no matter who" and I'd love to get to voting based on policy and how to get things working/fixed/improved. We shouldn't be voting on which citizens get state protection or not. We shouldn't be voting on whether to save our democracy.
But here we are...
@jeffowski Nobody needs a strong Republican Party, because all it does is to push the Overton Window further to the right. What's necessary is a political party that puts real, tangible, social measures on the table, because the Democrats' inaction is what's digging their own grave.
@nasd1066 -- And why is that?
Because instead of working on policy and figuring out how to fix shit, we are trying to reinforce the pillars of our democracy from a minority of apeshit crazy fascists that are seriously trying to for a repeat of January 6th.
This is precisely my point.
@jeffowski You can't promise a radical change and basically Heaven on Earth, then make basically no changes. The discontent generated from doing essentially nothing against student loans, or rent prices, or for example, the PR disaster that was East Palestine, will make people either not vote, or switch from voting Democrat to Republican.
@jeffowski
I begin to suspect that our FPTP voting system may not be bringing about optimal results.