• thevoidzero@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        Yes, but when one side is blatantly bad you should completely vote to other option, then that side will either vanish and new party will appear, or they’ll course correct and put someone better. If they always get half the vote whatever they do, then you don’t get a change.

        If you call it unrealistic, look at Nepal’s election results this week (look into what led into the election too if you want more info).

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            No, it’s people who don’t vote or won’t vote for the lesser or 2 evils that are part of the problem. Change is incremental and people rather not vote if they can’t get what they want immediately. My hair stylist still hasn’t registered to vote and she’s 30yo.

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            I’m guessing you do not know the election thing I’m talking about, in Nepal the new election results (after the protest) basically gave >60% seats to a completely new party, while old powerful parties now have barely any representation, and it’s not even a two party system. If it was two party system the new one would have gotten almost 80-90%.

            So if something similar happened here, given people believe “both evil”, third party would get overwhelming votes, if not at least the “more evil” would barely get any votes. The excuse of “we only have less evil to choose from” does not work if majority of the people still voted the “more evil”, why would a party change if they keep getting votes based on what they are doing.

            Edit: To add to this, even the registered and active members of the old parties voted for the new one. They even took campaign money to campaign for old parties, went to the people and told them to vote for the new party lol.

            This kinda of results comes from not having your whole identity about a political party, which I don’t see it here, and the strong individualism, where people say “well he gave us money last time, I’ll vote him”

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        9 days ago

        Oh no, don’t get wrong. Dems are only ever slightly better but I’d vote for Bernie if they, you know, did the whole actually-caring-about-voters-humans thing.

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      8 days ago

      Both Democrats and Republicans serve capitalism, run by oligarchic pedophilic billionaires. We all need to go farther left than our corrupt two-party system.

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      9 days ago

      it’s both of them, despite what the cultist fanboys of one side have to say.
      They either start/prepare the war or continue it.
      Endless wars, suppport for the genocider state, multinationals, billionaires are bipartisan.
      And if they can’t see that, which they obviously can’t (42/2 upvote ratio) , they deserve what they get.

      bunch of suckers.
      hope your dumb violent shithole destroys itself ASAP

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    ROFL There is a pattern, that Republican leadership is often flawed, their short term solutions will enrich their donors…Only for so long before it causes long term damage for everyone else.

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    9 days ago

    But all the right wingers keep saying the economy is going great!

    I dunno where they get that info but they sure keep saying it!

    Good economy means prices go through the roof, right?

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      9 days ago

      I mean, yeah, it means people are spending more money instead of hoarding it in, say, retirement funds, emergency savings, for a down payment, for some long-term dream… They can save up while we can pin it on the other guys, then we drain it all and call that economy!

      What do you mean, that’s not how it works? Line go up!

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    9 days ago

    Missing Regean. Sure he didn’t crash the economy during his presidency directly, but he set it up to fail in the future.

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      It won’t. Just look at what the 2008 crisis did. It will just mean that you loose and the gain more.