Why Senate Dems are prepared to swallow a border policy compromise
Why Senate Dems are prepared to swallow a border policy compromise
In addition to helping embattled US allies, Senate Dems believe changes could help cool border politics in battleground states ahead of 2024.
A growing number of Senate Democrats appear open to making it harder for migrants to seek asylum in order to secure Republican support for aiding Ukraine and Israel.
This is what the democrats stand for. Unlimited funding for the MIC and border-control, but social issues are not a priority.
Stop voting for the parties of Capital.
Stop voting for the parties of Capital.
What's your proposed alternative? Like it or not, there's two viable parties in this country. If you're a progressive voter and choose not to vote for the democrat because they're not doing enough for you, you're effectively voting for the republican.
I agree. People like OP say this stuff but can’t be bothered to volunteer for grass roots campaigns or even primary.
Like I'm gonna talk about who I'm organizing with or what our moves are on public facing clearnet; okay cracker lmfao. Death to the democrats if they can't, or won't do better. (Also, why the blue fuck would we volunteer for the DNC's primaries when we know those settlers aren't beholden to the outcome? Nah, death to all that; y'all are the enemy just as surely as the republicans are)
Vote third party in spite of you lot, let this settler-colonial nightmare of a country burn if the faux-progressives you present can't become actually progressive, basically. I care infinitely more about the billions outside Amerika than the 200 million settlers within it. Do better. Earn it. Et cetera.
you're effectively voting for the republican
No, that's only somewhat true if it's a tight election. If your area leans heavily to one side or the other, your vote for a third party signals that neither major party candidate is acceptable. If those votes get high enough to start impacting elections, they'll change their policies/candidates to attract new voters.
AFAIK, most people live in areas where one party is expected to win. So if that describes you, vote your conscience. If you live in an area with tight races, you may want to choose the less bad among the two major candidates. In both cases, push for voting reform, ideally something like Approval or STAR voting. That way you can vote your conscience and fall back to the major party candidate you prefer.
No 3rd party candidate has ever influenced the major parties to date. And likely never will. Sanders, an independent ran as a Democrat, and nearly won the nomination. Democrats took notice, and moved left in some material ways. Giving Sanders power in the party via committee membership/leadership. Something no 3rd party candidate will ever achieve.
Stop splitting the vote. Run as democrats till the neoliberals are all but purged. Then we can work to amend our elections and voting so third parties can make sense.
Let's be honest, "signals" mean exactly two things. Jack and shit. A viable progressive is just not gonna appear on thoughts and prayers because someone signals hard enough. The only way to move the needle is by choosing the viable party that doesn't actively campaign on the notion of eradicating "vermin".
In a functional society, we would have options like ranked choice, but functional is not a great word to explain the current situation in the U.S. So you bite the bullet, and make the less evil choice. Then you do it over and over again until the party that is actively trying to destroy democracy no longer exists, and you can potentially make effective voting reform.
There are two ways to fix this, slowly with every election over potentially decades, or quickly. And doing it quickly almost certainly involves people in the streets and ugliness on a scale you really cannot comprehend. But no amount of "signaling" is gonna work because honestly close to half the electorate just doesn't fucking care.
If those votes get high enough to start impacting elections, they’ll change their policies/candidates to attract new voters.
Honestly, I don't even really believe that'll happen-- but that won't stop me. I've come to the regrettable conclusion that the Democrats will never be anything more than the velvet liner covering the iron gauntlet that is the Republican party; and the things it'd take to disabuse me of that notion, the CIA has killed people for attempting before.
So they're just going to give the right more of what they want? And still claim to be "progressive"? The camps are still open. Until those are closed, there is no reason to believe the Democrat soft-fascists will ever be allies, even if the obvious hard-fascists relented and gave them everything they wanted. Walk away from the settler-colonials, on both sides of their illegitimate, inhumane, truly-ghoulish aisle.
Why? Because they're the party of controlled opposition. That's why.
Yup. The 'good cop, bad cop' routine; one hand washing the other to do the bidding of the oligarchic capitalist elite.
This seems like a reasonable compromise. 🤷♂️
Both parties already want unlimited funding for the MIC i.e. Israel and Ukraine. So all we are getting is additional funding for border control.