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@DrALJONES Democrats keep getting more blatant. Nowadays they're barely even trying to hide that they DGAF what us peons want.

The real reason their action/inaction almost always belies their words isn't cowardice, or "getting fooled", or ineptitude (the excuses they've been using for decades). The real reason is they're every bit as much beholden to their billionaire patrons as the Republicans.

The Dems' job is to give us false hope, so we don't take it into our own hands.

@MySideIsHumanity There is no third party. All you're doing is telling people not to vote.

@Gustodon The Greens, among others. Or do you mean “no third party who the billionaire-owned media tell me is ‘realistic’, I.e billionaire-approved”?

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@MySideIsHumanity American politics is about entrenched forces within government. It's an ugly, broken system, but it's what's happening. The Democrats and the Republicans have succeeded as political parties because they have that infrastructure, the built-in, on-the-aisle tools to make things happen. You want a Green candidate? Elect the Democrat with the tools and the ideas to make it happen within a broader political spectrum, one that Republicans will never allow.

Also, Donald. WTF?

@Gustodon The independents (people who don't align with either party) already outnumber the people who say they align with Reps or Dems. Not to mention people who only choose Rep/Dem because they think they have to.

The only reason this horror show continues, is that the 99% keep listening to billionaire-owned media who tell them nothing else is possible. And keep telling them to hate/blame each other for the horrors being perpetrated on ALL of the 99% by the robber barons.

@MySideIsHumanity It was a crisis election.

There was exactly one right thing to do.

The rest is lazy voters and selfish perfectionists.

@Gustodon It's ALWAYS a 'crisis'. It's always 'not the right time' to demand better, but even when they win control of all three branches Democrats refuse to undo the damage. I've been watching this for decades.

@MySideIsHumanity You're a Republican's dream voter, or non-voter, as the case may be.

@Gustodon Sad how it always comes back to this… people (both Red and Blue) who regularly drink the billionaire-owned media cults' Good-Us-Versus-Evil-Them koolaid,
1) will never stop making excuses for horrible things their Good Us do as an Unfortunate Necessity,
2) are brainwashed into believing Evil Thems in the 99% are the Real Power running this horror show, and
3) when cornered and out of logical arguments, they accuse anyone who won't pledge allegiance to the Good Us of being an Evil Them.

@MySideIsHumanity Answer one question honestly:

Would Kamala Harris be a worse president?

You had a chance to do something good (vote to elect a Black woman president) but you chose to do something bad (abstain and make academic criticisms about the results of an election you didn't participate in.) I don't know if that makes you evil, but you're definitely responsible for evil acts.

@Gustodon If you think "Swear a Loyalty Oath to the Good Us right now or you're an Evil Them" is an appropriate answer to my post, you've demonstrated beyond doubt that you refuse to seriously consider anything I say. I wish you well, and I hope some day you can find a better way to live than Good-Us-Versus-Evil-Them.

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@MySideIsHumanity Yup; boycott the overextended duopoly, with a minimum 3 party position.

Too bad so many don't understand the math, at root.