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I don't understand. We're bush, Nixon, Reagan and trump the lesser of 2 evils? I'm pretty sure they're the cause of the current MAGAstan government.
I think committing genocide is bad, even if someone else is also doing it, and I think its bad to reward someone for committing a genocide.
Pretty directly: The Democrats were committing a genocide. Voting for them will not stop the genocide. The argument that "but someone else is also doing it!" doesn't make it matter any less that you are doing it.
You are presenting a false dilemma, there are more to do than vote and there's more than two parties.
It didn't matter what Trump did or did not do. The fact is that you allowed the Democrats to keep doing it, and then to reward them for their bad behavior, you decided to try to elect them again. That's how US politics has become so fucking dysfunctional. You reward bad behavior.
Then dont run your mouth on American politics of you dont want people to engage with you on us politics
I'll remind you that you're in my space
Yes as a matter of fact, I created it and those that can read rules that I laid out are welcome to stay. Those that can't gotta go
What is your source for the Clintons "convincing" Trump to run? According to Politico "What the sources from both camps agreed upon, however, was that Clinton did not urge Trump to run. " https://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/report-bill-clinton-talked-with-donald-trump-as-he-was-considering-white-house-run-121052
https://smry.ai/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bill-clinton-called-donald-trump-ahead-of-republicans-2016-launch/2015/08/05/e2b30bb8-3ae3-11e5-b3ac-8a79bc44e5e2_story.html
From that article: "an aide to Clinton said the 2016 race was never specifically discussed and that it was only a casual chat." The closest thing in the article to Clinton encouraging Trump to run is that they say the conversation was "upbeat."
I feel like you are reading too much into that.
And we feel like you are not reading into it enough. It's one big club and we ain't in it.
Maybe OP is just starting highschool?
If OP is more than 2 years old, should be able to remember that the current government was not the lesser of 2 evils when it was elected. Don't need to look farther into history.
Seem to be missing a few administrations there. Though I notice BlueMaga liberals are basically having to memory hole every democratic president for the last forty years because "if you just vote us in we'll stop the Republicans!" Doesn't convince anyone when they look at what democrats actually did in office