Is anyone else utterly mystified by the Vote Blue Rhetoric this election?
Is anyone else utterly mystified by the Vote Blue Rhetoric this election?
I really do feel like I'm taking crazy pills with libs this election. The last two they at least had a bloodless rationale to the "lesser of two evils" rhetoric.
But this is genocide, the canonical Worst Thing You Can DO! I know many just believe that it's not a genocide at all because Palestinian civilians are all Hamas and just subhuman or that the videos published by official IOF channels are all deepfaked by the hungry ghost of Nasrallah. But then just FUCKING SAY IT and then we can call you a genocide denier and we'll know where we stand!
What I can't get is that many do seem to agree it's a genocide and Kamala is complicit. But then they lesser evil by going "Well if we don't vote then Trump will do bad things to trans people here."
Like Fuck You! You scheming, gaslighting bloody handed monster!
Either this is just a disingenuous argument to get your team in power or to maintain liberal civility politics, in which case double Fuck You that you think people are abstract political tools.
Or, you actually believe this, and the freedom of an LGBT person here outweighs the lives of 2 million people, many LGBT, who happen to have had the extreme misfortune to be born 5 cm over the border and thus outside your ability to feel empathy.
In which case Triple Fuck You, because you are, somehow, more of a fascist than Trump. At least Trump is too incoherent to make a complete argument for fascist policy!
I'm going mad, I really am. How can people be streamed genocide live on CNN and just say "well, I guess we're ok with genocide now!" Is the US public even human?! Even the fucking Germans had the good sense to pretend to look guilty after they lost.
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Personally I really like the whole: Republicans are the ‘Big Bad‘ that will destroy the country, end reproductive rights, start a war on LGBTQ+, end democracy, be the second coming of hitler etc…. And also we’re going to reach across the isle and have a republican in our government too. It’s like wtf? Are these guys bad? Or do you want to work with them? Which is it? I know that once we drop the keyfabe they’re all the same, perusing the same material and class interests, but their outward messaging is so incoherent. No wonder it doesn’t exactly resonate.
Not even the "we're gonna reach across the aisle" but just, why aren't they doing anything then? If democracy is truly really actually one election away, why have they done nothing to prepare for four years? If the republicans truly are so despicable, why have they let them become the only other viable party? Why are they doing nothing to crack down on these alleged anti-democracy fascists? If the republicans are doing all this shit, then that's treason. Treat it like it. If they actually cared, they would've. If they actually gave a shit they would have cracked down on all the illegal shit republicans are doing, but they aren't because they don't care (and because they do it themselves.)
Like if I thought they actually believed and cared that Trump would tear the US apart and end democracy, I'd be furious. Last election was won by a hair and they've done nothing to prepare since then. They talk about how republicans are infiltrating their beloved checks and balances... WHY AREN'T YOU STOPPING THEM THEN? WHY ARE YOU LETTING IT HAPPEN? WHY AREN'T YOU PUTTING IN MORE CHECKS AND BALANCES?
It's maddening to see obvious doublethink like that.Then they'll say something like "oh we don't have the power to do that, the president isn't actually that powerful. Joe Biden can't stop Trump like that." THEN TRUMP CAN'T EITHER. "Oh well sure he can, because he won't respect the institutions." THEN DON'T RESPECT THE INSTITUTIONS. IF THEY CAN BE IGNORED THEY'RE NOT INSTITUTIONS, THEY'RE JUST DECORATIONS, FUCK THE AESTHETICS IF DEMOCRACY IS TRULY AT STAKE.
"Best we can do is palsied hand wringing."