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As usual, the blue choice is obviously much better than the red choice, but only in comparison to this bat shit crazy red choice. On it's own, the blue choice is still rather bad.
I'm starting to think that Republicans just exist to make the bad Democrat options look always better in comparison.
If you have one side that is pushing into the crazy territory really hard, the public discourse will change and shift in a way, that a moderate position will be perceived as extreme. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Your comment made me think of this spoken piece at the end of Anti-Police Aggro by Oi Polloi.
Well said. Yes, this is what self-identified-"leftists" miss out on. Their dismissal of Democrats is based in a child's fantasy of politics. In the real world, you have to win the election, move everybody up one, win another election, move everybody up one, win another election, etc. In the meantime, republiQans kick everybody back at-least-two either way, and the cycle repeats.
Magical leftist thinking says we all vote for gay space communism and tomorrow BAM it's replicators and free energy. Alas. There exists a timeline where that is at least sort-of-possible - but we ain't in it right now.
Leftism, at least the version currently prevalent on Lemmy, is literally religious thinking. There's in-groups and saints and prophets and holy scripture and a Rapture everyone keeps waiting for.
Yup. Lasting change requires shifting the Overton window to the left. Otherwise, you get something like Iran.