Lauren WeinsteinOne of the reasons why Evil so often triumphs over Good, is that Good argues endlessly about whether or not its members are "sufficiently good", while Evil gleefully accepts all applicants.
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the gripe ibis@ShrikeTron i mean sure, or you could point out that the cruelty is the ultimate point, and the motivation and mechanism by which it is achieved doesn't really matter, which allows seemingly opposing ideologies to unite in a common goal.
@thegarbagebird @lauren Yes, but I'm also pointing out the opposite.
Dems **existentially need** to compromise toward ultimate good. Allow seemingly opposing ideologies to unite in the common goal. That's what the platform used to mean.
Current "Purity Games" has been a losing game.
@ShrikeTron the purpose of a system is what it does. the dems need to compromise, yes. they need to allow opposing ideologies, yes. but not towards ultimate good. they need to block aoc from the oversight committee despite her popularity because that is more their purpose. their existential need is to facilitate the status quo, even if the status quo is a slow decline and gradual rightward shift. it has been for ages now. the purity politics is perfect for them as it allows them to perform goodness, while obstructing any actual progress. you saw it all throughout the most recent campaign. that was the club used to beat anyone who was upset that biden was a hard border guy, that harris started her campaign by promoting us military superiority, that both of them were facilitating genocide, that they abandoned police reform and healthcare reform. they were told to grow up, that the only way to reach ultimate good was to continually accept the lesser of two evils.
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that is what the democrat party exists as. consider dual power systems, passing state-by-state ballot measures that move towards vote reform, with the eventual aim of shifting away from the fpp electoral model, reclaiming individual school boards from the conservative phone-tree-and-mlm-based organising (a big task, there are multiple redundancies in place). the democratic party with it's current reason for being, while it certainly shouldn't be considered an enemy, is not a reliable ally. they won't work with you, you have to work around them.
@ShrikeTron also i apologise for misreading the tone on your original reply, i spent five minutes basically telling you what you were saying all along, what a muppet.