Difference is you could vote in the democrats and protest the genocide on the streets every single night without being disappeared into a concentration camp.

I agree on your other point though. Seems all our options for voting are capitalism and capitalism turbo. I’m European but we also have non-optional capitalism where every election cycle we get to choose whether to keep on as usual or to privatize half of our remaining public services and get the same choice next time.

A lot of us held our noses and voted for Kamala anyway, and yet…

Y’all said that last election.

…something strange appears to have happened that election.

Vote Blue No Matter Who is, as a voting strategy, insane. You call people single-issue, but this strategy cares for no issue; if the Democratic nominee shot someone in the lungs on video in cold blood, you’d suggest we vote for them anyway because the Republican shot someone else twice. Trans people are expendable, homeless people are expendable, immigrants are expendable. Everyone is expendable so long as Team Blue wins. Or for that matter, when they don’t—it’s not like the strategy seems to be working, after all.

At what point do you admit that Democrat politicians have agency and can choose to change their policies? How badly do they have to hurt you before you demand that they do better? Why do you blame us for their decision to have fucking awful policy?

We have a two-party system, but that does not limit us to two options. We can have better candidates, but that requires us to stand together rather than letting ourselves be held hostage by a party that hates us and assuming that democracy exists only within a voting booth. Stop giving up.

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Agreed. And this is why the Democrats need to change yesterday.