In my country, it’s called “voting for the fox because the rooster is crowing out of tune”.

  • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    America doesn’t have a mainstream left party.

    It has a status quo party (Democrats) and a fascist party (Republicans).

    Clearly the status quo sucks for most Americans, so they’re more tempted by fascist alternatives.

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      5 days ago

      “Things are kinda bad, maybe they’ll get better if they get worse.”

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        4 days ago

        that’s the gist of it.

        “Things are not working well, for years I’ve been voting for the guys who claimed they wanted to repair it. Now I’m voting for the people who want to smash everything…”

        “… because I’m too dumb to realize that re-creating from scratch is far more difficult and even less likely to succeed”