It was built into the system, one way or another. The founders were morons. Even at its best, you have a few hundred people you have to corrupt to take over the entire country.
I feel like no matter what animal people use to insult a human, the human is usually worse than the actual animal. Even with snakes. Muskrats are sweethearts, they just swim around ponds and tag along with beavers.
That's the meaning of the phrase "the banality of evil". It was a commentary on how in Nazi Germany, behaviors that were individually almost innocuous or careless manifested at the society level as a genocide. Because it really just takes millions of dumbasses to follow a monumentally evil path.
Jesus fucking christ. YOU BUILD A PARTY UP BY VOTING FOR IT. PEOPLE EMPLOY THE SAME FUCKING "LESSER OF TWO EVILS" LOGIC FOR PEOPLE IN THE SENATE, AND HOUSE, AND GOVERNOR SEATS. EITHER THE POPULATION TAKES THE INITIATIVE TO ACTUALLY VOTE FOR PEOPLE WHO AREN'T MASS MURDERERS, OR MASS MURDERERS STAY IN POWER, PERIOD.
Stop messaging me. I'm seriously going to scream, you're so fucking stupid.
One day before? How about 12 months before? How about 4 years before? I've been hearing your lesser of two evils bullshit for 25 years. You locked yourselves in a prison and threw away the key. There is no escape for you all until you reject your own fucked up self-defeating mentality. Period. You will keep voting for mass murderers and they will keep tightening their grip until we're all dead. They just have to keep pantomining "big tough Muricans vs. opposition with a conscience" enough for you to buy it. And we're all stuck on the ship you decided to sink. We're truly fucked as a species because of the idiocy of people like you.
For the ten millionth time. The population has the option to vote for anyone. Preemptively narrowing the options down to two parties is self-defeating circular logic. I have addressed this exact point on this website about a thousand times already. Stop bringing it up. It is incorrect - misinformation/disinformation.
Biden introduced the "oligarchy" word again and now you're all using it. Like the actual oligarchy wasn't running this country under Biden. Like Biden didn't just send, what, 40 billion dollars of arms to a genocide. Like Congress, who between them and the President completely control the Treasury (not just the information, mind you, but the FUNDS) weren't completely on board with all of that. Like the federal government isn't a frigging money laundering operation that hemmorhages 800B/yr into the black pit of military spending.
You think I don't see what's happening? You think there's been some huge shift because Trump comes into office and starts breaking everything like a gorilla? That's because you're getting led around by the nose instead of following through diligently on everything that's happening. The same U.S. imperial policies are continuing uninterrupted. The "Israel" policy is proof incarnate of that. You're focused on trying to demonstrate 1% of difference between "Israel" policy between Trump and Biden, completely ignoring the 99% of similarity which absolutely begs the question, why the fuck are the openly fascist party and the so-called "opposition" completely in agreement that they SHOULD support a genocide. None of you seem to have a coherent answer for that question! Or the ten thousand others like it that don't make it onto CNN or MSNBC or even Reuters or AP News. Because you don't analyze the economy, you don't analyze the federal budget, you don't look at the revolving door with all the federal agencies and Wall Street and military contractors and oil interests and so on - all you focus on is attention-grabbing headlines that make you completely miss the big picture. You don't understand that the empire even exists. You don't understand that they're meddling with every single country on Earth to impose an economic superstructure. That's the problem with you people. It's never slow, careful analysis, it's REACT, REACT, REACT. You're armchair analysts - you react to headlines and you repeat the same theories you heard from everyone else. You're not educated. You're brainwashed. You're the automatons running around the imperial core, panicking every time the TV tells you to - and worst of all, never concerned with how you affect the rest of the world, only selfishly with your own wellbeing. That's how you move so effortlessly from "there's not a genocide happening" to "so what if there's a genocide happening, the genocide would be even worse under Trump." Somehow the lightbulb never even went off in your head, "why the fuck are our politicians arming a genocide."
So you don't have a strategy then. Then sit the fuck down. "I don't know what the fuck is going on and I guess we'll just try whatever the fuck" is not a strategy.
"In Congress or the Senate"? Congress INCLUDES the Senate. Congress is the combination of the House and the Senate.
Yes you do. You support him via advocating for a completely ass backwards promotion of third party voting.
This is the most fucking backwards logic I've ever seen. I talk about "leftists want to make a better world" by using a completely different approach than voting for fascists. You frame the false choice of "anyone but fascists is impossible" again. And then by your logic, not supporting fascists is equal to supporting fascists, because "it's like voting for fascist B, because either fascist A or B has to win!" THIS LOGIC IS NOT SOUND.
If you can't actually add something that's not completely fucking insane to the conversation, then DO. NOT. REPLY.
No, somehow in my 16 years of primary education and going to college for political science/pre-law, I somehow managed to come out not understanding the most basic principles about the U.S. elections. Thanks for coming along to share that vital piece of information with me. This is really so helpful and productive and not a complete derailment of the conversation and waste of everyone's time, that you came along to say that.
And now the genocide will get worse.
Let's back up. Did you actually read what I wrote SPECIFICALLY? Because all I'm hearing is the same talking points again. Here it is, one more time:
P.S., nobody said “the exact same”. You all just love rolling that out, but at the same time can’t even acknowledge exactly WHAT similarity it implies, that two “opposing” politicians both UNQUESTIONINGLY PARTICIPATE IN A GENOCIDE. Really, finally, at long last here - take a minute out of your life and seriously ask yourself - HOW THE FUCK DID THAT HAPPEN? What in god’s name brought us to that situation? Because if you can’t explain that, you don’t understand anything about what’s happening.
Or in one sentence. WHY. DO. BOTH. OF. THEM. SUPPORT. A. GENOCIDE. You want to pretend you have some grand strategy to shape this society in the future? OK - THEN EXPLAIN HOW THIS HAPPENED, AND EXPLAIN HOW VOTING FOR PEOPLE SO IMMORAL THAT THEY SUPPORT GENOCIDE CAN EVER POSSIBLY RESULT IN FIXING IT. You wanna pretend you're strategic, then explain your understanding of the situation, and assuming it has any relation to reality, explain how you you think your approach will fix it.
No, the fact that we had an election and the sum of you voted for a fascist and another fascist is why the country is disintegrating. See, when you make immoral choices, bad things happen as a result, that's why the choices are immoral. You love to pretend that this logic only applies to third party voters, while ~140M of you vote for literal monsters and accept ZERO culpability. For some reason you're all even more focused on third party voters than the literal Trump voters, despite them having 25-50x as much influence on the election.
It was built into the system, one way or another. The founders were morons. Even at its best, you have a few hundred people you have to corrupt to take over the entire country.