• barsquid@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’m glad we can hop out and instantly bothsides this one by comparing insidious shit the DNC does choosing its presidential candidates vs. gerrymandering to prevent voters from having any choice about their specific districts’ leadership in the general.

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        6 months ago

        Amazing, though, how much a defeatist attitude like yours can, and will, accelerate that process. (So, yeah, arguments like this are a HUGE PART OF THE PROBLEM!!!)

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        6 months ago

        Southern Strategy and decades of propaganda fed to fear-addicted racists is what lead to Donald Trump.

        The only way past “better than the only other option” is when there is such overwhelming support behind the guy who does not want a Long Knife that we can safely vote for an actual preference. Or a sane voting system would be fine too.