Things can do good and still be bad. America helped fight the Nazis (and also paved the way at certain points in a few things you list including free education for children) and they're still bad. Thing can be better than other systems and still be bad. Capitalism was better than feudalism. I still don't want it. Also its laughable to say it fought hardest against imperialism. I dare you to tell that to many of the countries it used to control, both directly and indirectly, through military power. I dare you to tell that to a Ukrainian friend. Russia/USSR was/is still an imperial power that's caused a lot of harm.
Also, even doing all that, it was still authoritarian state own capitalism at best in the end. That's what you're defending as the bastion of lefty success?
Enjoy your bad logic and your boot. We don't see eye to eye.
You asked what kind of socialism I like. I really liked the elected leader of Sweden Olof Palme who enhanced socialism by strengthening unions with the long term goal of turning them into workers cooperatives. He was unfortunately assassinated before he could see that through. But this form of non authoritarian socialism is how I would like to see the rise of socialism.
I also agree that unions and class struggle work too. But part of that is being politically involved and voting. I'm not diminishing the work of unions, my whole point is emphasizing the power of voting. Not voting is literally throwing away the limited amount of political capital you have.
Organize. Unionize. Share theory. But also vote.
P.s. I'm not down voting you. I known that's silly to comment but I don't try to punish people having good faith arguments with me.
The truth is the dems suck. They will do anything for a buck. They will support genocide for a buck. And they will lose an election they know they could win because the electorate will just swing right back to them in after they had another taste of republicans for 4 years if it means they keep getting that sweet sweet AIPAC money.
From a pragmatic standpoint, not voting isn't teaching the democratic establishment a damn thing. They're far more afraid of you voting for change within the party than they are afraid of you not voting and temporarily ceding power to the right. Then they get to leave in the obscene things the Republicans enacted that also make the dems money without it looking like they wanted it to happen.
The reality is that if more people voted consistently then the political machine would actually be beholden to the voters. Politics would actually shift left towards popular policy instead of just swing back and forth. But people don't vote. So they can just ignore what you want most of the time. And now we have the deal with whatever the fuck the authoritarians leading project 2025 can manage to fanangle. And if they get their way the american people will either accept things the way Russians and Hungarians have and the worlds largest army will be run by uninhibited authoritarian fascists, or the country will get very bloody.
But on the front of this single election and not voting. Its a literal trolley problem. Vote for 1 person to get run over or don't vote/flip the switch and watch 3 people get run over. Either way, blood is on your hands. It's on mine. But there's a little less. No decision is still a decision. Not voting for genocide enabled more death. I don't see how that can be morally superior when the practical outcome is worse.
If you oppose genocide then you'd do everything you could to prevent as much genocide as possible. Enabling Trump by not voting and encouraging others not to vote is going to get a lot of people killed. It's going to get people put in concentration camps, deported to counties they've never been to and will struggle to survive in, result in the erasure of trans people, get women killed in childbirth, get people killed on the job as workers safety rights diminish, get children killed as child labor laws disappear, expand the power Russia has over Ukraine (a country they have commited genocide on before), and still get Palestinians in Gaza and the west bank murdered. It honestly makes "you" almost as bad as the fascists in my opinion. Maybe everyone who didn't vote because of Palestine can go vacation in Gaza after Trump has built a few hotels there and see the real true work all those protest votes helped accomplish.
I'm not absolving dems for being involved in the genocide in Gaza. Their support for Zionism is obscene. But a lot more damage is going to be done now that the power is strengthening in the executive branch under trump and it's extremely privlidged to act like a protest vote was the morally superior option.
But I'm a socialist because I also think that the means of production should be owned by the workers.
I get down voted from the .ml crowd for informing them their support of Trump, either direct or inadvertent, isn't going to save Palestine its just going to get trans people killed and this gets me either blocked or banned. These people see an authoritarian and they can't help but get a boner.
I'm a socialist. But I'm an anti authoritarian first.
In understand cherry picking just fine. You only like the data that fits your narrative and it's pretty obvious. Any thing doesn't firt your narrative is "liberal" or an "outlier." People like you always have excuses when the evidence doesn't say exactly what you want it to.
No. I just don't use truth social. And for 2.5 years after the 2020 election I didn't hear anything about trump and it was glorious. And I pay attention to politics.
P.s. your real clear polling link has trump doing worse that 538, so maybe you should just stick to 538.
I used your specific 538 source ya goober. You can't give a source and then cherry pick what i should read from it.
I heard didly from Trump for years until he started campaigning again. The GOP establishment turned their back on him after he lost the 2020 election. But sure. Unquestionable leader.
But you're really just going to make up whatever definitions that suits your narrative. Trump was the unquestionable leader after he became a pariah but the VP is not at the center of politics at all. Absolutely wild assertions.
Im sorry, do we trust 538s polling average you cited again or not? I honestly can't keep up with your gymnastics. What citations would you like to cherry pick again?
Ahh right. Being VP isn't center stage but checks notes being nothing for 4 years still constitutes as center stage. Got it. You should try out for the Olympics.
Its not the highest. Its +5.3 when it was +8.2 a few werks ago. And its amazing you're still trying to do so many mental gymnastics to brag about a temporary +8.2 approval rating.
I could probably go through the data and find someone with better approval at one point after years of being in politics. Hell, I'm pretty sure Bidens approval after being elected after being vp for 8 years and then on the campaign trail another 4 years was higher than +8.2 direactly after he was elected. But the premise of bragging about a temporary +8.2 approval rating is so stupid I'm not going to bother to make a real comparison and entertain it.
Things can do good and still be bad. America helped fight the Nazis (and also paved the way at certain points in a few things you list including free education for children) and they're still bad. Thing can be better than other systems and still be bad. Capitalism was better than feudalism. I still don't want it. Also its laughable to say it fought hardest against imperialism. I dare you to tell that to many of the countries it used to control, both directly and indirectly, through military power. I dare you to tell that to a Ukrainian friend. Russia/USSR was/is still an imperial power that's caused a lot of harm.
Also, even doing all that, it was still authoritarian state own capitalism at best in the end. That's what you're defending as the bastion of lefty success?
Enjoy your bad logic and your boot. We don't see eye to eye.