I'm not the one gaslighting myself about Democratic governance or pretending that they actually did the things that they promised, and neither are the people who need better pay instead of memes.
I don't think it matters much who we elect, at least if you're a member of the poor and working class. It will be interesting to see the stats on how many people don't bother voting this year.
Every time I hear stories like this it reminds me of the efforts Dubya and Cheney have made to rewrite history because they're associated with some of the worst people and decisions in American history. I don't believe for a moment that he wasn't just another yes man indulging Trump's nonsense.
Sorry, but why is the GOP donating huge amounts to Stein and helping keep her on the ballot if she isn’t running as a spoiler?
That's democracy in a country where money equals free speech, and Democrats, by doing nothing to change campaign finance laws, have demonstrated that they're content to operate in a country where money equals speech.
Also, I don't think that participation in a democracy deserves to be invalidated simply because it's inconvenient for your side, especially when your side has held power twice in sixteen years and their policies have pushed voters away.
I gave several examples of how Democratic governance has been actively harmful in the US and throughout the world.
They had the power to do better, so it's a tad silly that they feel entitled to the votes that may go Green in November.
As I stated in my initial post above, there are myriad reasons why Democrats are resorting to a meme campaign instead of discussing the actual things they've done (and chosen not to do) with the power that we gave them in 2020. They can't. Republicans don't have to lie about Democrats' governance,.
The Green Party is not the reason they are failing. They are failing because of their own broken promises. Workers can't subsist on memes.
they have thrown tens of millions of dollars down the drain for absolutely no benefit.
As opposed the tens of trillions thrown down the drain by Democrats, conservatively speaking. The Iraq War alone, which Democrats supported almost 100%, estimated to have cost upwards of 20 trillion dollars. The Democrats' response to the trillions lost in the Great Recession was to ensure that the rich lost nothing and were never imprisoned for their crimes. The workers, meanwhile, had to take to the bread lines.
I think if you look at Democrats' governance objectively, it's easy to see why Socialists and Democratic Socialists are hostile to them, as Democrats fight harder against democracy than they do to enact progressive policies. It also becomes clear why so many Americans don't bother to vote at all, as they get the same results no matter who is elected.
It doesn't change the fact that in 2016, Democrats lost due to their own choices as elected stewards of this country, and that will be the reason they lose in 2024 if they aren't elected.
The Democrats could, as a party, elect not to rule as conservatives too, but they never seem to do so. They've had the power several times over the last 16 years to make life better for the working class and the poor, and they seem to always elect to protect and promote the lives of the billionaire class.
They make promises they have no intention of fulfilling and people suffer. Then they repeat those promises every four years, but eventually, they turn to excuses, and the Green Party is a convenient one.
You can't blame the Green Party when Dems shoot themselves in the foot. The number of people who vote Green is far outweighed by the number of people the Democrats have convinced, by the way they choose to wield power, that voting is a pointless exercise.
Greens have to actually work to live, unlike Democrats and Republicans, who are backed by billionaires and dark money. That is why most of what they've achieved is at the local level.
The election hasn't even happened yet and they're already blaming us for for a Harris loss. Naturally, though, they (Democrats) aren't doing any introspection on their own record.
They've spent the last year arming a genocide that is killing children en masse, actively targeting civilians, and now making war against other countries and, as of today, attacking Irish military resources in Lebanon. They've made hundreds of billions, which we don't have, appear out of thin air to produce more WMD's and resources for wars abroad, money people here need to feed themselves and their families.
They've sat on their hands while tens of millions are forced to work 2-3 jobs to survive, and even that only covers the bare minimum needed to live in most areas of the country. Most people can't even think of going to a doctor or obtaining higher education now, because both are cost-prohibitive.
They ran an evidently cognitively-impaired man for president and, when they couldn't stage manage him on national tv, that man's brain condition made itself painfully evident.
Instead of discussing their record (which they can't) and their plans (which people don't think they'll actually put into place), they've used their two months of campaign time to repeat memes: "Weird" and "Joy", but when you have to work 80 hours a week to live, memes ring hollow.
These and other reasons are why the Democrats are watching the polls even out now, and what will explain their loss if it happens, not Greens engaging in democracy.
TLDR: If you want progressive votes you cannot rule as conservatives.
Trump wants to get the American public to fund not only his lifestyle, but that of his family for the next several generations. Don't forget, this is the president who literally monetized the presidency, from selling the Resolute Desk to Goya for ad space, shopping federal pardons to celebrities, and making government officials (and their entourages) travel hundreds of miles off course to stay at his businesses so he could price gouge the American taxpayer.
In recent years I've had mixed performance from Supermassive titles. The Quarry didn't run well. The Devil In Me ran very well. I haven't played the new companion game they made to Dead by Daylight, but the demo ran perfectly.
I don't think the excuses for Obama are helpful. Not now, and not then. Even when he was president, it was very clear that the issue needed to be settled by Congress, and he had the power to do it.
I don't think that's accurate.
I'm not the one gaslighting myself about Democratic governance or pretending that they actually did the things that they promised, and neither are the people who need better pay instead of memes.