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As Trump Attacks the Republic, the Cowardly Democratic Party Still Won't Fight to Win | Common Dreams
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The democrats lost and haven't changed a thing. The third parties also haven't changed. They still don't stand a chance.
And now we have blatant fascism and a mentally ill narcissistic pedophile with dementia hauling anyway anyone he dislikes in the back of a van while he builds concentration camps for anyone who angers him.
How exactly is this better than Kamala?
I don't think Trump being president is better than Kamala, which is why I didn't vote for him.
If Kamala had won, then she would still be black bagging people to concentration camps. ICE existed before and both Biden and Kamala explicitly support it. The silver lining is that, because Trump is doing it blatantly, as you say, at least more people are aware of it and upset about it. Doing fascism while following the rules and keeping everything out of sight and out of mind is arguably worse, but it's kind of a toss up.
Of course, the strategies I mentioned were and are longshots, which may take a while to work if they will at all. But they have a nonzero chance of working, which is more than "vote blue no matter who" does. That is, if the goal is actually stopping fascism and not just easing into it more comfortably.
I no longer beleive its possible for this system to fix itself with slow internal incremental change. Do you?
Nope we need heavy change to undo the heavy changes that gop did. But they did all that stuff with votes.