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Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

I dunno, Aaron. If we don't exercise some care in how we vote, we might vote in the same sort of people who will "look forward, not back" and try to restore a status quo that wasn't working in the first place... we'll face another go-round of this fash garbage.

These Vichy Dem Consultant-led Party Leaders we're current stuck with are NOT helping the people or fighting back. It's kinda sickening, really.

And what of the democrats running on fascist positions?

Care to be more specific?

Every Democrat that's running on taking rights away from trans people, calling women "biological men", etc. Capitulating to Republican framing on whether trans people should keep having the same rights they've had vs we should lose some rights

a vote for dems isn't a vote against fascism though. it's a vote for slightly less fascism or for fascism slightly later. it is only to dems' benefit that we are threatened with as much fascism as possible every voting cycle so that all dems have to do is convince people they are not quite as bad

Can you share with me your proposed theory of change that not voting for dems will have?

sure. we want a situation in which the people who get elected are the ones with good policies. we achieve that by making good policies be a requirement for getting votes, which can be established by giving out votes to people with good policies. occasionally that can even be democrats