I thought this was insightful.
The reality is we keep electing shitlibs to “stop fascism” and those shitlibs take that as a mandate to pretend it’s 1994 again and go full Blairite/Clintonism/neoliberalism while purging its own left flank. And it predictably has failed with catastrophic consequences EVERYWHERE this has happened.
How about if we stop doing that?
Who is “we” exactly and what is the alternative and can that alternative actually be elected?
How exactly does it happen that we avoid “shitlibs” and get more progressive people elected especially in two party nations and systems?
I suggest reforming the system – especially in the USoA – but how can that happen without people in power making that so – and then how do you get people in power wanting and working to make such reforms?
You need some kind of proportional representation system. First past the post is just a recipe for disaster.
You won’t, though. You wield a Blue MAGA commentariat who attempts to shame anyone who actually does stop doing that.
Vile as they are the fringe extremist Trump cultists and 2025 mob had something it seems the left wing of politics is incapable of – unity.
Standing behind their candidate no matter what. No matter how much some disagreed with that candidate – even if they rightly disagreed with some aspects of that candidate.
If only we’d had that unity and complete backing of the leftwing party’s nominee when it was most needed.
I fear now it is too late.
@ The trump helping bad faith troll beholder : Shame goes where it is deserved. You deserve every bit of shame and guilt laid on you and then infinitely more.
You robbed the entire world of so much better than it would have had along with the rest of the Bothsiderists, Only-Unicornists and the Trump helping traitors Stein and West.
You have caused incalculable harm, suffering, death, grief and pain.
Metaphorically, you like the other Trump enablers, have an ocean without surface or bed full of blood upon you.
All supposedly because of your dislike for the more leftwing, more progressive of the two USoA parties.
The very least you could do is admit you, Trump enabling troll “beholder” were catastrophically wrong and apologise and do everything possible to make amends -but you refuse to do so probly because you never actually wanted anything other than the Trump tyranny you worked for in the first place.
After all, you can’t say you weren’t warned and told of the consequences of your actions beforehand.
@ The trump helping bad faith troll beholder : Shame goes where it is deserved. You deserve every bit of shame and guilt laid on you and then infinitely more.
You robbed the entire world of so much better than it would have had along with the rest of the Bothsiderists, Only-Unicornists and the Trump helping traitors Stein and West.
You have caused incalculable harm, suffering, death, grief and pain.
Metaphorically, you like the other Trump enablers, have an ocean without surface or bed full of blood upon you.
All supposedly because of your dislike for the more leftwing, more progressive of the two USoA parties.
The very least you could do is admit you, Trump enabling troll “beholder” were catastrophically wrong and apologise and do everything possible to make amends -but you refuse to do so probly because you never actually wanted anything other than the Trump tyranny you worked for in the first place.
After all, you can’t say you weren’t warned and told of the consequences of your actions beforehand.
Sounds pretty accurate to me, PZ.