• HollandJim@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    The us could use it, but barring a war on its own soil, you’re not going to get it anytime soon. All you can work towards is small changes that accumulate.

    You can claim “status quo” all you want but it’s just the same as “not voting sends a message” - it enables the people already there to continue, and honestly, too old or whatever, Biden is the best we’ve got right now.

    There’s a great article on NPR about Adam Kinzinger and why he has left politics for now. I’m a Democrat, but I agree with him:

    I also know that if everything kind of tracks the way it is in 2024, I won’t be voting Republican because, again, I think it’s a simple question of democracy or no democracy. And the Republican Party represents right now a real slide to authoritarianism … If it was Joe Biden and Donald Trump, I don’t think there’s any question I would vote for Joe Biden.

    You can wait for the perfect politician all you want, but I’m not letting the cult slip into power and fuck us all up again.

    PS: Also, calling Biden a “pre-ascendant facist” - NO. Absolutely not. Not sure where your politics come from, but it’s not any sense of reality. Go live in borderline democracy, or China or Russia (or their adjacent states) and then rethink your definitions.

    • TheKingBee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Also, calling Biden a “pre-ascendant facist” - NO. Absolutely not.

      First let me clear this up, I mean that Biden represents the previous status quo, which has led us to a current status quo where the fascist are ascendant.

      The status quo that Biden represents with it’s primacy of shareholder power over every other part of society has led has led us here because it causes inequity and decay. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, then desperate, then fascist…

      I’ve long ago given up “not voting sends a message,” just come to peace with the fact that voting for the people that caused the problem will not fix the problem.

      Biden is at best a delaying action from the bad times which are inevitable at this point.

      If the bad times are coming let them come, because in the meantime the fascists are eating away like termites, like cancer, at the structures of our society, more people are becoming desperate and destitute rife for recruitment, delaying it doesn’t save us, it just makes them stronger.