Well, if the Democrats were just doing nothing wrong, I'd be OK with that. But they are doing a lot wrong. Just off the top of my head:
Bombing children
Torturing innocent people
Removing highly-popular social programs
Increasing funding to the military and intelligence agencies
Deprortations without due process
Increasing funding to the police
Handing the election to Trump
Fighting against healthcare for all
Giving taxes to their rich friends
Backing a genocide
Keeping their friends out of prison
I'm not asking for a perfect candidate. I'm asking for a candidate that isn't a monster. But the Democrats aren't interested in providing a candidate that isn't a monster.
Pretending to fight the greater evil, but then immediately caputulating and building out the tools that they use to be evil is enabling the greater evil. Calling the lesser evil out for pretending is not enabling the greater evil.
It's political leverage. A lot of voters will follow Sanders' lead. The threat of a lot of people not voting for Harris would have pulled her to the left, and made her give consessions. Instead, he signaled to the rest of the Democrats that he will vote for them, no matter how terrible they are.
I want him to be oppositional. I'm against the Democrats as long as they keep being the "lesser evil".
The Democrats generally don't try to earn votes. They generally only try to appeal to their rich donors. If people stopped voting Blue No Matter Who, and started voting for other parties, then the Democratic Party would either die off, or would have to start fighting to earn votes.
You mean the last election when there were two right-wing candidates on the ballot? Yes, you are correct, that leftists don't come out to vote for right-wingers. Of course, when there is a leftist on the ballot, leftists do show up, as evidenced above.
I didn't see anyone in this thread say they are the same. I always find it quite telling how liberals have to make up points to argue against, instead of sticking to the points being made.
all of the further left candidates are not going to get funding from billionaires.
That's why I want them to run, and not Newsom. If he wins, backed by billionare money, he's just going to keep perpetuating the same system, the same way that Biden and Obama did.
He is accurately pointing out that the current system isn't working. He never said to get rid of the whole thing, you did. If you think he is "repeating Trump's talking points" just because he said that the current system isn't working, then you need to work on your reading comprehension skills.
Additionally, you don't need to have a replacement or a fix, to be able to point out the flaws in the current system.
You should take a deep breath, calm down, and read what Cile wrote. They were pretty clear, but you keep yelling at them for things that they never said.
Bro, you don't seem to understand. It's only when the Red-Team supports genocide that it's bad. When the Blue-Team supports genocide, it's totally cool. Didn't you see the last Presidential election?
The costs only ballooned because the companies keep bloating themselves. It's gotten cheaper to make games, but more expensive to run giant companies that pay ludicrus amounts of money to executives.
I've heard that it was also good for cleaning water. Historically, people didn't know about germs, but low-alcohol drinks were a good way to clean out the dirty water
I don't understand where this "Leftists don't vote" meme comes from. Leftists demonstrably vote, when they have leftist candidates to vote for. Mamdani, Sanders, AOC, Sawant, etc all get plenty of votes.
But Democrats keep running center-right candidates that pretend to be lefitsts. I find it telling that, as Democrats keep moving to the right, their approval rate keeps dropping, and they keep getting fewer votes.
Well, if the Democrats were just doing nothing wrong, I'd be OK with that. But they are doing a lot wrong. Just off the top of my head:
I'm not asking for a perfect candidate. I'm asking for a candidate that isn't a monster. But the Democrats aren't interested in providing a candidate that isn't a monster.