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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (9 children)

This "All or nothing" bullshit helped put that asshole back in office, and it needs to stop.

Harris got shit on because there was always MORE she could have done. Simply not being a rapist felon should have been more than enough to win that election, but we kept nit picking about everything on our wish list that she couldn't do, and helped convince the country that she wasn't good enough for us, and now look where we are. We got NOTHING on our wishlist and are likely to lose a lot of what we had before.

A full blown anti-theist candidate would scare too many people. They would be even easier to vilify than Biden or Harris. We need to take little steps in the right direction, not just sit and watch democracy fall apart because the only person who could have stopped it "didn't threaten to bomb Israel enough" or "never mentioned changing what gets printed on the money".

Like a child that throws a tantrum about not being able to get two desserts, so they get nothing at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Honestly, we've had the "little steps in the right direction" off and on for eight decades now. Look where it's gotten us.

  • When was the last time a powerful politician gave a damn about the poor rather than going on about the "middle class"?
  • Where have all our Unions gone?
  • Has the federal government ever done anything even approaching the scale of change needed to address Climate Change?
  • What's happened to our infrastructure?
  • Where has our freedom gone? Has it taken peace with it when it left?

We've already lost everything that could be said for the United States being good, setting aside any claims of greatness entirely, and have lost almost everything that would qualify it as decent. The politicians have realized they can get the votes of some of the people who want change by branding themselves incrementalists and then putting indefinitely many increments between what we have now and meaningful change.

Contrast with history. When has incrementalism ever worked for us? We got the New Deal from one President who knew how to lead. He didn't give us a 1/2*Xth measure of making the American economy work for the workers. No, he got as much as possible then died wanting to do more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Democrats assumed that those small little *incremental *steps that the party wanted them to take was going to lead to more progressive left leaning country. Turned out those small, unnoticeable, little baby steps marched to the right. The fact that the party has gone from people like Jimmy Carter to the likes of people that deny Holocaust is evidence that incrementalism marches to the right

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, the sadistic ratchet-effect of American politics. D Party moves nanometers in the right direction, R Party moves kilometers in the wrong direction, D Party moves nanometers from the new center, repeat until... well this shite.

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