Political Memes

Do you notice you misportray again? You vote for change. Sure it might be a little change until the Dems are sure they can keep winning, but that's how change starts. Like, see the original post again.

Carter wanted to change things. And he got voted the fuck out.

So Clinton learned to go to the center, and he won.

Gore wanted to change things and ran on environmentalism. And bam he lost the election.

So Obama learned to not say anything. He ran on vague hope. But he did the ACA. And what was his thanks? To lose the House of Reps, then again lose the house of reps, and then to lose both the house of reps and the senate.

Clinton said she'd have a map room to fight climate change. And bam she lost the election.

So Biden learned to stfu about environmentalism. And he won. But Biden did green energy anyway. And what was his thanks? Polls said he was going to lose.

So Kamala also learned to stfu about environmentalism and pretty much anything progressive.

That's what the situation is. The Dems go to the center because everytime they look left they loose. How do you make things progress? By giving Dems consistent and overwhelming victories.

Again, just spelling out how white and not in danger you are, just now you're lying about it because you think just going "nah bro" hides how above it all you're talking as if you know you'll be fine anyways.

If that's true, then you're in the same boat as us, only you're holding the gun to your own head instead of having it held by someone else, and talking about what a principled stand pulling the trigger is going to be.

We are currently in a fascist regime; both parties are heavily lobbied by corporations that dictate policy.

That's not fascism.

People continue to struggle more and more under both parties, while they play political theater to continue to divide us.

100% people need to engage more. And in national elections quit voting for 3rd parties. Showing solidarity with and not dividing themselves from the rest of the left. Till our voting system is reformed and 3rd party presidential candidates are no longer a mathematical impossibility. With the only message being sent, that you're safe to ignore.

Voting outside the two-party system will help establish that people do have standards when voting. 

That's literally the exact opposite of what it does.

Yes, and a good percentage of the populace decides to stay in and not reward the duopoly with their vote. 

Then they get the lack of change they've committed to.

Reading comments like this is unbelievably frustrating, because you’re so close to being right, but you refuse to take that next tiny step, which makes you dangerously wrong.

Yes, both parties are lobbied out the ass, it’s bad and it’s wrong, but which party at least tries to mitigate the harm? Yes, there’s unproductive political theater that divides, but which party at least tries to talk about real issues that matter to everyday voters?

Your approach is akin to burning down the house instead of doing the hard work of fixing the roof. You will never get the outcome you imagine by voting for a third party, unless you do the hard work of improving our overall system, from inside the system. You play the game with the team you have, not the team you want.

The problem with this take is that you cannot conversely punish the duopoly by withholding your vote, regardless of whether or not you think they "earned" it. Even if you don't vote, one of them still gets in. The problem is, the people who are going to vote for the significantly worse of the two options are very motivated to vote, and they will do so.

Lord.