@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 @Tengrain

Democrats so far haven't pandered to the radicals on our end of the horseshoe, and I think that's helping us survive.

It's also been long enough, with the Left side of the horseshoe being sidelined while seeing their counterparts getting what they want, that most of them are openly defecting to the other party in hopes of getting a better shot at power than Democrats are willing to give them.

Far Left podcasters, journalists, even a handful of elected officials flirted with it up through 2020. Then 2022, putting them on their heels and empowering the Dem base, came the wholesale defection of people like Greenwald and Rogan and Chapo and Jacobin and such to arguing Dems are worse and Trump is preferable.

Now we have a handful of the elected officials joining in on it publicly, notable exception of AOC who is now an enemy for not.

#USPol #USPolitics #FromTheLeft #Left #Chapo #Jacobin #Democrats #GOP #Election #Horseshoe

@textualdeviance @imstilljeremy @Tengrain I have a collection of responses like that from accounts I’ve suspended.

IF we manage to win, it’s highly doubtful their voices will have weight with the candidates they chose not to support. That just makes sense. But I'm sure they'll find the Republican Party more than welcoming instead?

@TonyStark @textualdeviance @imstilljeremy

They become the useful idiots for the right, just like Lieberman was. They won’t be thought leaders there, either, just props.

Think GlennZilla always being on Tucker Carlson’s old show. Like that.

@TonyStark @textualdeviance @imstilljeremy

I want to stress that I am not sanguine about any of this. We are in a treacherous political moment, we need to rally everyone to vote, there’s no margin of error.

Paraphrasing Franklin: if we don’t hang together now, we will hang separately later.