ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESFeb 5

Part of the reason for the USA's failure is MAGA but the other big aspect is a left that does not engage the real enemy

Toxic idealism

Spineless capitulation

Mindless cynicism

"Polite society" "high road" cluelessness

And lazy entitlement

Not financial entitlement but this obtuse entitled foolishness that we have the time and space to criticize some aspect of the left according to deranged standards of perfection when we're facing literal fascism

Make MAGA the target of your venom

Show threaddavoyagerFeb 5

@benroyce
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What does that even mean?
Toxic Idealism. You are just taking an ugly word, toxic, and put it in front of a beautiful word, Idealism. There is no such thing.

Spineless capitulation exists across the political spectrum.

Mindless cynicism is far more emblematic of the right

The rest is mostly true except the graphic should have far more blue hands to represent how the left vastly outnumbers the right.

Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESFeb 5

@davoyager

Toxic idealism is when there is a better choice but it is scorned or attacked because it is not ideal

There is only better or worse in this world. There will never be any other choice. Forever

So people who do not choose better because they are walled off into inaction by their foolish toxic idealism are only aiding fascism

This sort of inept idiocy is a very real phenomenon unfortunately

Perfect is not the enemy of good

But plenty of morons insist it must be

Show threaddavoyagerFeb 5
@benroyce To say the left largely suffers from what you call toxic idealism is incorrect. We have learned through hard experience that we will never achieve the perfect and so have had to settle for the good time and time again. The ACA is a great example. We wanted universal health care but were unable to achieve that and so had to settle for what we could get through the corrupt Senate. Some people yes, especially young people, but as a whole you are wrong. The left compromises.
Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESFeb 5

@davoyager

we are currently suffering through 4 more years of trump as a direct consequence of assholes staying home and not voting for harris

some of this is racism

but some of it is toxic idealism: demanding something better before they get off their lazy entitled ass and prevent fascism

Show threaddavoyagerFeb 5
@benroyce and a great deal of it is sexism.
Imagine if all those idiots in 2000 hadn't voted for Ralph Nader or stayed home instead of voting for Gore.
It would be a totally different world today.
Show threadGeorge BFeb 5

@benroyce @davoyager

I think 2000 can be more accurately blamed on Florida just blatantly stealing the election than people staying home

Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESFeb 5

@gbargoud @davoyager

florida 2000 wasn't example of people staying home, it was an example of the other problem: idiots who don't understand what a third party vote means in an FPTP voting system

certainly moron nader voters didn't put bush into the win column, what they did was put the results into the hands of a shitbag supreme court

Show threaddavoyager
@benroyce @gbargoud
again if enough people voted for Gore instead of Nader we would have won
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