Post by @NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io

2026-10-21 22:06 UTC

For the record I sort of agree with you, but writing things in capital letters doesn't make them true. At the very least, you need to demonstrate that winning the election now by getting a bunch of corporate stooges into office wouldn't just cause a repeat of this in 2029 or 2033. Your point is not self-evident.

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@davidagain@lemmy.world 2026-10-22 05:16

It is self evident that “stopping the Republicans now will only allow them in later” is a shit reason for not stopping the Republicans now. In two party politics that the US system is set up to enforce, the opposition often moves to the centre where they see their lost votes lying. Republicans winning draws the Democrats to the right. It’s been such a long time since the Democrats held all three branches that they have drifted a long way to the right. Your can pull the Overton window s l o w l y to the left by not letting the Republicans win. But that would be admitting reality and making a pragmatic choice, and I’ll guessing you want the Republicans to win again to teach the Democrats a “move left” lesson that they can only hear the opposite of when the Republicans win.

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