Political Memes

Yeah.. I already voted last election but the below makes me concerned..

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/read-the-emergency-executive-order-trump-activists-are-rallying-behind

Note the article says this is being pitched but nothing surprises me anymore

And honestly they are boring. Ugh, these guys are also bad!.. so fucking what. Sit down and die on the hill of moral high ground?

One should vote, it simply shouldn't be the end of it.

If you voted Democrat and thought you made your part, wrong. You barely made one shift towards one slightly less terrible group. This is not victory. A part of what you should do, yes. All you should do - not.

"Both sides are bad" is correct, but perpetuate the notion that you only can vote on the two different parties. There are other parties you can vote on.

"Literally the only way to stay in power", do I need to remind OP that they WON the elections? Democracy goes both ways, your "side" doesn't always win.

Yup.

That said, please be kind to leftists, and try to primary a candidate people can vote FOR, rather than just voting against Republicans. (America needs more Mamdanis, and "vote blue no matter who" is a reasonable stance but a TERRIBLE slogan.)

Same goes for leftists: Be kinder to and more understanding of liberals. Not everyone has it in them to be a hardline revolutionary. (And don't forget to vote in the primaries.)

Imagine the hammer is the polling box and all your solutions look like voting when your think all your problems look like nails.

Everyone should vote. Absolutely. Go out, do it, cast that ballot.

Voting won’t solve all of our problems. We need to go beyond just voting.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, you dumb fuck Americans should have voted for Vermin Supreme.

If you are form the US, you are having your primaries by now.

Those are the ones where good people appear and need your vote to stay on the race. Go participate there, instead of complaining about the main election.

"But they'll steal the elections!!!!!"

Oh yeah? Just like all those state and special elections they've been losing by double-digit electorate shifts for the last 18 months? Including the one covering FUCKING MAR-A-LAGO???

Grow the fuck up. Get registered to vote, and when elections come round, VOTE, DAMN IT. Fascism only wins if you just give up and let it.

A lack of good options in the general is a sign of poor turnout in primaries.

Now the question is which is easier, convincing millions of people to vote for “anyone not a republican” or convincing a candidate to be more than “not republican”

They'll try to shove you off the platform with constant negativity and trying to act like Trump is just a continuation of all the same. If you didn't care before, why do you care now?

It's not. It's different.

Nah, in the long run: a weak and unstable US is better for the rest of the world. Also: with the orange man, you know what you have and you don't want to vote for more genocide, right?

If you have a problem with the truth, that's a you problem. You can disagree with a course of action, but if truthful criticism of Dear Leader makes someone The Enemy to you, you're much closer to fascists than you'd like to admit.

I usually see it as calling out the political capture of the two-party system which has rendered the United States an oligarchy with increasingly dysfunctional democratic functions. Quite often it is a call out of the partisanship that reinforces the rigidity of the two party system and preventing any positive or lasting reform. At the very least those are the valid contexts I know of for bringing up any both-sideism of the two American political parties.

But yes, the Republicans do win when there is less voting.

To only have two sides is the problem.

And scolding people for criticizing Democrats as "both-siders" means you like your fascism with less overt racism.