@TonyStark

I’m always amazed that the “Both parties are the same” argument doesn’t fall apart more often when one points out that the Republicans are (constantly) trying to take away voting rights and access, and Democrats are trying to restore and expand voting for everyone.

Go figure.

@textualdeviance @Tengrain I’m voting for the most progressive candidate available. The “burn it down, I’m not voting for Biden” crowd are actually the ones electing the right- what they accuse me of.

Nobody is going to listen to anyone proud of throwing them under the bus. It’s why that wing is completely falling apart.

@TonyStark @Tengrain Exactly. The GOP gave in to their radical fringe and then utterly lost control. All the moderates got swept out in primaries and by 2010, the party was fully in the hands of the Dominionists and Tea Party sovcit weirdos.

Democrats so far haven't pandered to the radicals on our end of the horseshoe, and I think that's helping us survive. We're picking up way more people from the disillusioned right-leaning middle than we would endlessly trying to placate the alt-left.

@textualdeviance @TonyStark

I don’t think our extremists are all that extreme, it’s just that the GOP pushed the window so far right.

So, yes, I’m blaming the Republicans for making the left into the far left.