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You must only care about the horse race aspect of the election then.
There are people who don't see "beat the other guy no matter what" as the aim of our great political project.
The aim of our great political project is "Lets work together to create a world worth living in, a world of broadly shared prosperity, a world with the infrastructure that is the envy of the world, a world where housing is a human right, and so are healthcare (including in the rural areas), retirement, food, education and transportation. Let's work together to explore space and to discover new science. A world that's unpolluted. A world where being poor is not a slow motion death sentence. A world where everyone is in a position to build some savings instead of living paycheck to paycheck. A world of internet connectivity as a human right, including in the most rural area. A world of net neutrality. A world of limited copyrights and limited patents. A world void of monopolies as a matter of principle. A world of personal bodily autonomy. A world where privacy is protected for most people but where the superrich have transparency requirements because they can greatly affect our wellbeing with a stroke of a pen. A world with a wealth ceiling and no billionaires."
No shit dude. You need to focus on the present first, though, so that we can continue to work towards that future you speak of. Because right now, the authoritarians threatening to make that future inaccessible are more relevant.
We've been told that since Hillary was running. How long are you all going to keep beating that drum?
Til we have another choice. That time isn't now.
Maybe we need to do better to give ourselves that choice. But we haven't.
Yea, that's why everyone's pissed that we're still stuck with Biden. Why should we expect it to be any different after he wins this time?
Because his administrations track record over the last 3.5 years has been really good and they have made progress in a lot of areas. He has fucked up with Israel and he's old, but the experts that he's surrounded by that actually make the decisions will still be there if he wins. No President can just snap their fingers and make everything good, especially when the other parties goal is to obstruct and make counterprogress in everything. Quit reading headlines about his bumbled speech and look up the laundry lists of accomplishments from this admin.
He's made 0 progress resolving that particular situation. The supreme court just handed him a blank check and the first thing he did was say he wouldn't use it.
Because when you are the good guy you throw away the elder wand. Or the one ring. Etc...
You don't throw it away. You destroy it. He'd have to use it to do that though and might as well clean house while he's at it.
Being what we don't want Trump to be is a dumb way to differentiate ourselves from Trump.
I want a government free of corruption. Using unlimited executive power to clear that out and then put safeguards in place to prevent it from reoccurring sounds a hell of a lot better than what the democrats have been doing. The cat is out of the bag, if he doesn't use it the next guy will.
Well, I can't find room to argue with you there.
But Trump would never destroy the one ring / elder wand, so it's not being Trump at all.
Because it's going to be much worse if he doesn't.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=op0yk50uMlQ
We have Chase Oliver (Site), and the rest of this thread is just cope, Dems ran the shittiest candidate possible to see what America would accept, and surprise its not Joe, literally every sane person I know has told me they refuse to vote Biden, but keep parroting blue no matter who, like you don't sound deranged.
Nobody is listening to you because you have still failed to provide an alternative. Biden is good enough for now. If he kicks the bucket then whatever, he has done good work so far (except for israel policy) and a blue VP is way better than a power hungry liar.
Okay to sum that all up you are blue no matter who? You are literally whats wrong.
Please go ruin another democracy
What country do you think you're in? Do you know what a first-past-the-post system is? Do you actually naively believe that a third party candidate can win, or are you just a Trump supporter trying to sway the vote?
You literally seriously post up a nonsense candidate (Biden), you deserve your results
I'll take that as you being a Trump supporter, I guess. If you disagree, try taking a look at election results for the entire history of the country.
I am actually a Chase Oliver (Site) supporter. That Trump and Biden made sure to exclude him from all debate, despite him going to be on the ballot in all 50 states show Dems and Repubs are being as shitty as possible. Oliver is better by any comparison, and isn’t 8 decades old, but you know these folks rather talk about RFK’s brain worms even though its he is only currently eligible to run in 18 states.