At least they aren’t openly nazis. When presented with two evils, pick the lesser. If you don’t pick either, bigger evil benefits for you not voting rather than voting against it.
I know, it feels pointless when the opposition is only marginally better less evil. But I am reminded this one motivational speaker who told me you have to make it difficult as possible for them:
If enough people always vote for lesser evil, and demand justice and accountability, it accumulates. Sure, a political party may spend a minimal effort to brush the one protestor off, but many will be more difficult to ignore. Eventually they have commit political capital and resources to answer the dissatisfaction, even if it’s to defend themselves. And those are resources they have to divert from the usual fuckupperies. At some point it will be easier to budge to the demand of a large demographic.
If a politician can ignore a demographic for free, they will. An act of small resistance is still resistance.
But always voting for the lesser evil means that, as long as there’s a greater evil, the lesser one gets a free pass and does not really need to change nor fight anything the greater evil does. In fact, it’s in the lesser evils best interest to enable and nudge the greater evil into even greater evil, because it will let him do whatever and still be the lesser evil.
Have you ever read the essay entitled “Who Goes Nazi?”
In the end, when people are dying like they are now, they don’t really care who are white supremacists and who are cheerleading the white supremacists. If you vote for a corporate Democrat who votes to fund ICE, I guessthat’s better than voting for Donald Trump. But it’s not going to help people who are in death camps or people who already died or families that have been torn apart.
Sometimes voting for the second worst candidate isn’t good enough. Sometimes you need to do a lot more if you want to live your life with dignity and decency. Unfortunately, posts like this are designed to oversimplify life and convince people to give up. But I think that’s a load of bullshit. I think we can do better, and it all starts from recognizing that the Democrats are not going to save us unless we force them to.
It’s easy to blame the people who stayed home and it’s hard to take responsibility for your own potential.
No corporation is ever on your side. There’s a reason why authors for over a century have been writing dystopian books about them going back to the gilded age.
If only the corporate Dems were actually on the good side… Sigh.
At least they aren’t openly nazis. When presented with two evils, pick the lesser. If you don’t pick either, bigger evil benefits for you not voting rather than voting against it.
I know, it feels pointless when the opposition is only marginally
betterless evil. But I am reminded this one motivational speaker who told me you have to make it difficult as possible for them:If enough people always vote for lesser evil, and demand justice and accountability, it accumulates. Sure, a political party may spend a minimal effort to brush the one protestor off, but many will be more difficult to ignore. Eventually they have commit political capital and resources to answer the dissatisfaction, even if it’s to defend themselves. And those are resources they have to divert from the usual fuckupperies. At some point it will be easier to budge to the demand of a large demographic.
If a politician can ignore a demographic for free, they will. An act of small resistance is still resistance.
But always voting for the lesser evil means that, as long as there’s a greater evil, the lesser one gets a free pass and does not really need to change nor fight anything the greater evil does. In fact, it’s in the lesser evils best interest to enable and nudge the greater evil into even greater evil, because it will let him do whatever and still be the lesser evil.
Have you ever read the essay entitled “Who Goes Nazi?”
In the end, when people are dying like they are now, they don’t really care who are white supremacists and who are cheerleading the white supremacists. If you vote for a corporate Democrat who votes to fund ICE, I guessthat’s better than voting for Donald Trump. But it’s not going to help people who are in death camps or people who already died or families that have been torn apart.
Sometimes voting for the second worst candidate isn’t good enough. Sometimes you need to do a lot more if you want to live your life with dignity and decency. Unfortunately, posts like this are designed to oversimplify life and convince people to give up. But I think that’s a load of bullshit. I think we can do better, and it all starts from recognizing that the Democrats are not going to save us unless we force them to.
It’s easy to blame the people who stayed home and it’s hard to take responsibility for your own potential.
No corporation is ever on your side. There’s a reason why authors for over a century have been writing dystopian books about them going back to the gilded age.
Better than Nazis