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The Ratchet Effect
DEMOCRATS BLOCK MOVEMENT BACK TO THE LEFT / REPUBLICANS TURN EVERYTHING TO THE RIGHT
Many of us are demanding to arrest or at least abolish all of ICE.
You can see posts that say "arrest ICE" or simply "fuck ICE" with very positive reddit vote scores in many cases.
What about arresting ICE in real life?
What if the next Presidential election arrives, and instead of voting Republican or Democrat, I'm going around supporting a candidate who focuses on driving awareness of all the ICE crimes caught on video?
Because when I say "fuck ICE," I don't mean it as shorthand for "fuck Trump." More like shorthand for "fuck all the authorities that abuse their power" or "fuck the military industrial complex " or "fuck the parallels between my country and the Nazi Germany we supposedly defeated."
Or just "fuck having a country where I can be robbed, beaten, or killed by the authorities any day, without consequences."
Parts of this post, placed anywhere with reddit-style votes, might reveal not many Americans are really with me on this.
Forget a President, I wonder if any major city can even elect 1 mayor, that goes 1 day, without making a choice that helps someone in uniform get away with robbing, beating, or killing someone else.
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I blame the people who enable the perpetrators. While the US is still a democracy, that includes people who voted for the perpetrators, as well as those who threw away their vote allowing the perpetrators to win.
The blame doesn't stop there, I also blame the DNC's bungled handling of the election, but regardless, I have zero doubt in my mind that there would be fewer government kidnappings under Harris regardless of how shitty the circumstances of her nomination were.
In what way did voting for 3rd party candidates last election stop perpetrators? In what way will voting for third party candidates stop perpetrators in future elections? By all means campaign for them, raise awareness, but if they can't make it past the post your votes are wasted.
Until US moves away from FPTP system, you have to work with the system we've been dealt, while pushing for reform. Just wishing it was different doesn't help anyone but the worst candidates.
Working to stop the perpetrators isn't enabling them. You're getting things completely mixed up.
My state has ranked choice voting btw
That's great. Most don't. Plenty of us remember the hateful dogpiling of privileged bluestaters. Anytime someone begged others to just vote. Not for a specific candidate, but just to vote against the Republicans. Yes It didn't matter if you voted because your state was already going that way. But that wasn't the case for most other states.
Or when others begged people to vote strategically for candidates that stood a chance of beating the Republicans. Yes, it didn't matter if you did or didn't because your state was already going that way. Good for you. That wasn't the case for most people. The fact that so many loud obnoxious oblivious blue-staters managed to convince Palestinians in swing states to vote for Trump. Chefs kiss, hilarious. With allies like that who needs enemies.
People voting third party in states without ranked choice voting are arguably even more impactful 🔥
Agreed! They helped elect Trump - look at the impact he's had! They should be proud!
RFK Jr dropped out so he couldn't really have any voters, and Democrats and Republicans aren't third parties. Not sure who you're thinking of. I was talking about people like Jill Stein who tried to stop anyone genocidal from getting elected
Oh yes, Jill Stein! The people's President! I had totally forgotten about Jill Stein, the candidate who is totally not propped up by Republicans to siphon away Democratic votes in swing states.
I've been living under a rock for the last year - how's her administration been going? Has she ended all the wars and state sanctioned kidnappings?
Thank God so many people voted for her, can you imagine if anyone else had won? Good those votes weren't wasted on someone with a statistically significant chance of winning.
Sure, they prop her up by arresting her at protests
Absolutely, Republicans love it.