Fifty House Democrats led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) have sponsored a bill that would form a commission to assess President Donald Trump's mental fitness for office, pursuant to the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
They have a fascist lite instead of full fascist? Dunno, sounds like it’ll only be marginally better. Vote the lesser evil, because, apparently that’s better…
Nobody knows what the long term holds, and it’s in no universe worth gambling on accelerationism when there’s real immediate harm we can prevent by voting for the Democrats. At the very least, measles won’t come back.
There’s real immediate harm you create by voting for the Democrats under current leadership, and that’s opportunity cost. You’re allowing a group which is doing nothing to combat Trump and the GOP to maintain positions of power and organize resistance to them to their own benefit.
No Kings is the best you’re going to get out of them, and it’s nowhere near enough.
There is currently no alternative to the left of the Democrats that has a credible path to power. It is not an “immediate harm” to undermine an alternative which is not even considered a genuine threat by the establishment.
Build those alternatives, sure, but they are not going to overturn the current system overnight.
Negative, I’ll vote in primaries and do what I can in my limited capacities to see better candidates that aren’t harmful. I won’t accept less than that.
They have a fascist lite instead of full fascist? Dunno, sounds like it’ll only be marginally better. Vote the lesser evil, because, apparently that’s better…
Less is better than more evil, correct.
Maybe in the short term . . .
Nobody knows what the long term holds, and it’s in no universe worth gambling on accelerationism when there’s real immediate harm we can prevent by voting for the Democrats. At the very least, measles won’t come back.
There’s real immediate harm you create by voting for the Democrats under current leadership, and that’s opportunity cost. You’re allowing a group which is doing nothing to combat Trump and the GOP to maintain positions of power and organize resistance to them to their own benefit.
No Kings is the best you’re going to get out of them, and it’s nowhere near enough.
There is currently no alternative to the left of the Democrats that has a credible path to power. It is not an “immediate harm” to undermine an alternative which is not even considered a genuine threat by the establishment.
Build those alternatives, sure, but they are not going to overturn the current system overnight.
The Democrats have no credible path to stopping the GOP, demonstrated more than once.
Credible is just nonsense to justify refusing politics by the lazy.
And why the left will not just support Dems blindly. Evil is still evil.
We need to live in the reality that we’re getting evil either way and try to minimize harm.
Negative, I’ll vote in primaries and do what I can in my limited capacities to see better candidates that aren’t harmful. I won’t accept less than that.
I too have also heard that less evil is better but I’m not a philosopher.