#anti democrats

[ultraericthered]

Another Star Wars meme, now that the USA's a Nazi country.

[ultraericthered]

Not just failed - betrayed.

[mugiwara-lucy]

With Kamala/Walz going up DAILY, I've seen more people talking about voting third party/Jill Stein (EW) and I believe the above screencaps from @three--rings can explain WHY Third Party votes NEVER work NOR is this the election to screw around in.

Everyone....like she says above.....PLEASE LEARN FROM HISTORY!!!

(Because if Trump gets in, he's NEVER LEAVING).

[mysharona1987]

[ultraericthered]

We can live beside the ocean Leave the fire behind Swim out past the breakers Watch the world die

How shit is looking in America right now:

[read-marx-and-lenin]

[trumpledhearts]

[nuadaargetlamh]

One is a convicted criminal that wants to:

Institute a dictatorship “on day one only” (with majority support from his party!)

Give a greenlight to Project 2025

Use a weakened Schedule F to install THOUSANDS of cronies

Institute military tribunals for his political enemies (and allies!)

Gun down “enemies from within”

Support Russia in wiping Ukraine off the map

Use the combo of the removal of the Chevron deference/the Supreme Court allowing people to openly bribe them/Schedule F to extend the far-right’s reach into every government agency and deregulate everything to the benefit of his rich capitalist buddies

Has gotten total immunity for “official acts” (what counts as “official”? Whatever his Schedule F appointed judges choose of course.)

Already took away so many freedoms from racial minorities/queer people/women/anyone-that-isn’t-a-rich-white-man that it would take ages to list them all in this post

and so so so so SO MUCH MORE.

The other is a typical neoliberal politician.

Remember also, you’re not just choosing a president, you’re choosing their cabinet, potential Supreme Court justices, federal employees as well. With the above listed ALONE, Trump would do so much more damage than just what he can do himself. That’s not including everything else his Federalist Society Supreme Court would and have given him on a silver platter. Supreme Court Justices are for LIFE, and we’ve already seen the potentially irreparable damage this far-right activist court has done to the fabric of democracy.

Project 2025 really deserves a part to itself just to list some of what it includes: complete abortion/contraceptive ban (no exceptions), destroying worker’s unions and protections, remove Social Security/Medicare/Affordable Care Act, end civil rights protections in government, ban teaching the history of slavery, remove climate protections while gutting the EPA, end equal marriage and enforce the “traditional family ideal”, use the military to gun down protests, mass deportation of legal immigrants (especially Muslims), ending birthright citizenship, pack the lower courts, and plenty more. The far-right wasn’t able to take full advantage of Trump’s presidency the first time since it was so unexpected. They’re preparing so that they won’t make the same mistake again. THERE ARE OVER 900 PAGES OF POLICIES AND PLANS THAT THEY ABSOLUTELY WILL IMPLEMENT IF THEY WIN. READ IT. Anyone that says they won’t is either a liar or already drank the Kool-Aid. Isn’t it interesting that every politician that supports it, including his vice president, wants Trump to win?

Not to mention, if you care about Palestine (like I do, a lot), Trump would be MUCH WORSE for Palestine than the other candidate, supporting Bibi going “from the river to the sea” and already cut off millions in aid to Palestine in 2018 (which Dems reversed!). If you support a free Palestine and don’t vote blue, you have categorically hurt them more than if you did. Even Palestinians themselves want the Democrat candidate over Trump. There is no quick and bloodless peace deal that both Palestine and Israel would ever agree to. The road to an end of the Palestine-Israel conflict is going to be long and difficult, probably decades of dedicated de-radicalization in both states, and will involve far more than one person’s decisions in the end. Unless Trump takes power, and avoids all that by sending enough bombs to turn the Gaza Strip into dust.

There are a few reasons you would choose to vote third party in a FPTP system (support ranked choice voting btw) or not vote “in protest” while ignoring all the state and local elections that affect your area more than the president. Either you’re privileged enough to not be affected by what Trump would bring, you’re ignorant of the consequences, or you care more about doing nothing perfectly rather than doing something, anything that isn’t 100% ideologically “pure” to fight against the far-right fascist movement.

Am I a democratic socialist? Yes. Am I a realist? Also yes. In every single down-ballot race, and through my activism, I will fight for the rights of the oppressed and working-class. But the Presidency isn’t fucking winnable right now, and probably won’t be for decades. Pro-corporatist/anti-worker sentiment is baked into the fucking bones of this country and its people. A majority of eligible voters wouldn’t vote for Bernie, and he’s barely center-left. Voting for anything other than one of the two big parties is a useless feel-good gesture at the moment. Or you’re a dumbass accelerationist, and if you are, honestly go fuck yourself.

Let’s say you want a socialist revolution, full-tilt government takeover. I want that too, in my wildest dreams! We’re on the same page there. So how are you going to do it. How? HOW? What pro-worker activist groups are you working with? Are you encouraging your workplace to form a union? Volunteering for/donating to your local farmers’ co-op? Canvassing for pro-worker legislation? Hell, even something as small as distributing free copies of high-school/college textbooks, so that those of poorer means have a better chance at affording advanced education? Are you doing anything to help? Any praxis at all, rather than typing wishful thoughts of revolution alongside insults to people who aren’t as “correct” as you on the internet?

Every voter that still supports Trump is energized by every cruelty he enacts, while millions of Democrats and third-partyists care more about purity tests and manifesting socialist revolution tulpas than avoiding a fascist dictatorship.

Have a brain, touch grass, and vote blue all the way down that fucking ballot.

[ultraericthered]

OK, I intend to be more rational than the other unhinged person who reblogged this from you. I wish to point out that while most of what you say here is truthful, reasonable and agreeable, you tripped up at one very crucial part near the end…

I say all this in a round-a-bout way to say. You think the right isn't safe because you've been told that. Consider for a moment, not being a conservative, but just talking to some with an open mind now that you are realizing that they have been right that the left is actually anti-american.

It is here in this paragraph that you unintentionally do a good deal of damage to the “both sides have their extremes that we should reject and look for compromise in the middle” argument you were so effectively making. Because you let a bias slip. First by saying those who lean left “think the right isn’t safe because you’ve been told that.” Just…no. We’ve been shown that. We’ve seen it. We’ve heard it. We’ve felt and experienced it. Our opposition to the morally rotten and corrupt, proudly ignorant, cruel, bigoted, fascistic, fanatical, hypocritical, cowardly, lawless, self-victimizing, civil liberty-denying, diversity-hating, power-hungry, bloodthirsty, ally-alienating, evil-appeasing, pro-authoritarian theocratic autocracy and anti-democratic modern American right-wing is based on what they tell us about themselves, in word and deed, on a regular basis. It’s not just because some biased, more virtuous-than-thou leftists told us to think of the right as being all that: if we only had their words and judgment to go by, we’d likely tune them out and go about treating the right as being mostly other people with political differences and disagreements who are nonetheless normal and still worth associating with. But that’s not what the modern right and the MAGA cult movement and party representing it has proven to be. They are instead radical, hostile, dangerous, seditious towards our country’s government, an existential threat to every fundamental thing the nation stands for and has always stood for, and most unforgivable to all of the remaining OG normie conservatives and Republican voters to whom principles, moral character, and devotion to country over party still matter, they’ve sold their souls and betrayed every core tenant of conservative ideology as it used to be commonly defined and understood. All conservative values, everything they ever purported to believe in and champion, they never truly did. It’s all about gaining and wielding power for them, and it always was.

And this seems to be unfortunately not new for you, as I see older posts express this “anti-anti Trump” mindset where you argue that masses of your fellow Americans found in Trump nothing worth loathing, fearing, and despising until the media “told them all” that he was a bigoted fascist. That the “Orange Man Bad” hysteria is worth mocking regardless of how well-founded it turned out to be, and even the old talking point that Trump did not attempt a coup on the government and incite a mob to violently riot at the capitol in his name all so that he could cling to power rather than concede an election he LOST and allow the will of the people to rule and the fair democratic results to be certified…just because he randomly threw out the word “peacefully” in his speech and later told the rioting cultists to stop and go home hours after when any responsible, well meaning leader would have done so. For Heaven’s sake, you said:

stop telling people he started this - there is more and more evidence that everything was started by ANTIFA anyway.

Reality: there was no such evidence. It’s literally a conspiracy theory to shirk the blame off of who it plainly belongs on.

Nah, we don’t despise Trump because we were told that Orange Man Bad. We despise Trump because we can and always could see clearly that Orange Man Bad. These days, read any of his Truth Social posts and pretend that you had absolutely no knowledge of who this person was, let alone he was a former president and what political party he belonged to. His words are just the incoherent, reality-denying, immature, undignified, vile and even dangerous words of an absolute psychopath.

And last because you say “you are realizing that they have been right that the left is actually anti-american.” As though the left was and is the ONLY side of our political atmosphere that’s anti-American. As though an extreme plurality on the left and the extreme majority on the right weren’t both equally anti-American. As though the far left and far right weren’t two sides of the same damn horseshoe. And even by generalizing it as “the left” being the anti-American side of the equation, you disservice the entire compromise argument, for that’s literally how we got to both sides being so staunch in their set ways and so divided with each other so as to be uncompromising in the first place - why would anyone want to seek compromise with a side that was entirely anti-American, meaning they’re the “bad side” and thus everyone on it is bad by association and so YOUR side must then be the “good side” by default? That’s the sort of thinking held by people on both sides that led us here, and the sort of thinking you’re pushing now.

Leaning towards being conservative is not a bad thing and you absolutely do not have to convert to liberalism or “progressive” leftism. But if you truly do love this country, and if you truly value actual conservatism and what it was meant to foster in our constitutional republic, including compromise, then you take a principled stand for those things against the far right and the far left alike, and especially against the likes of Donald Trump, the current GOP MAGA cult that literally worships him as their false idol, and all that they stand for and plan to wreak upon this nation’s future. In a year like this and an election cycle like this, it is more important than ever. And even if you feel you can’t or won’t, there are millions more of us who will. But the invitation to join those millions shall remain extended, for any time you might choose…

"The Left is no longer safe, and the Right never was."

I see this sentiment often from progressive Jews (so most of us in some way). Let me be very clear. The left was never safe either.

Do you think that so many people were radicalized overnight? That on the early morning of October 7, leftists across the West opened their phones and in that moment became antisemites, able to fall for the clearest of propaganda and simultaneously cheer on and deny Jewish suffering?

The left was always capable of this. They only began to clearly enunciate how bloodthirsty and how fundamentalist they were out loud when the right minority was targeted. Their exception, so they can still enjoy the luxury of ganging up on an 'underdog' usually reserved for the right.

October 7th could have been last January 7th. It could have been in 2018. It could have been in 2006 if social media algorithms were as developed, and would have had the same response.

The left has never been safe. They've just been easier to ignore.

[1solone]

Trump’s niece just nailed it!

[mugiwara-lucy]

The MAIN reason I’m voting AGAINST Trump is because this guy is a legitimate THREAT to America. What do I mean? Let’s not forget he STOLE CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE:

What the fuck was he going to do with those? And when you couple the fact that he kisses ass to DICTATORS:

He is NOT someone we can afford to let back into the White House.

For the sake of us NOT becoming a dictatorship, please let’s all vote blue down the board.

SO MUCH that the votes won’t be taken to the Supreme Court because they will fuck us all over for him.

[arkvark2]

another Jussie Smollet

One would think by now they would have learned...but clearly it's not the case.

[mysharona1987]

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