#instead of continuing our defunct two-party system. but instead leftists chose to bicker about
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I detest the belief that if you think democrats are better than Republicans, you must not care about immigrants or foreign policy. I strongly believe that America should have open borders and should welcome immigrants instead of creating 1000 arbitrary hoops they have to jump through in order to be considered "legal." I also oppose our involvement in weapons dealing and funding militias that wreak hell onto women overseas.
I'm just not a single issue voter. I care about multiple issues, like women's rights, women's health, and diversity quotas. I'm not blind to how callous and racist the democratic party is and has historically been. I'm also not blind to the fact that diversity and women's autonomy is directly connected to democratic policies and democratic leaders, nor am I blind to the fact that the primary campaign points of Republicans are promises to destroy existing civil protections for women and minorities. Promises that they have made good on before.
I will never see Elizabeth Warren as the primary conservative candidate, because her values fundamentally oppose conservative values. But i might see her as the primary democratic candidate, if the leftists who do share her values ever decide to actually participate in the government and support a candidate they agree with, instead of abstaining from making a choice entirely and then refusing to vote for the representative that other people picked for them. But it seems like most american leftists are more interested in taking advice from people who don't know shit about the US government than they are in listening to the people who have dedicated their lives to trying to make our government less evil, callous, and racist 🤷♀️
#also if we had elected elizabeth warren back in 2016 or bernie sanders in 2020 we wouldve actually paved the way 4 a multi-party system#instead of continuing our defunct two-party system. but instead leftists chose to bicker about#how anybody voting for these 3rd party candidates is effectively crippling democracy bc ''they could never win''#so now we have a huge population of leftists who completely abstain from voting entirely#because they think that if this current democracy doesnt represent them then democracy isnt worth it at all#which fails to understand that the whole existence of democracy depends on you carving out representation for your beliefs#and fails to understand that historically people giving up on democracy does not create socialist utopia#it creates autocracy which. and i cant believe i have to say this. IS WORSE#having no choice IS worse than having two bad choices. but when u refuse to make a choice u are saying that u prefer not having one at all#and it doesnt matter if thats what u believe because thats what u fucking said with ur actions
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