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"Yes don't vote at all to get rid of fascism"

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago (21 children)

If you are confronted with two evils, thus the argument runs, it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to choose altogether. … The weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

  • Hannah Arendt, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship," in Responsibility and Judgment (2003)

It's very interesting that those who screamed that we had to choose the lesser of two evils in 2020, thereby admitting to the evil of the Democrats, immediately shut up about this evil as soon as Biden took office. Now that the greater evil has taken power, you never talk about actually fighting it, you just spend your time bashing people with a conscience.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Don't know what the fuck you're on about but that's hogwash. No self aware individual on the left doesn't hate their own party's faults, at least in the US. The same simply can't be said for the other side.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

on the left

The Democratic party is not a leftist party. It's a center-right liberal party. The point of my post was that "self aware" Democrat voters pay lip service to acknowledge the evil of the Democratic party, but then do absolutely nothing to challenge it when the Democrats are in power.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

You didn't say anything wrong but the takeaway is really vague and open ended. What do you propose they do?

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