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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Politics ~~has always been~~ is currently a game of the least offensive though. Every can candidate will have things they give you and things they take away. If your two choices are between "I will genocide" and "I will genocide even harder" it seems wild to me to help the second one win by abstaining from the first.

Oh and the second one doesn't think women are people and thinks climate change is fake.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No it hasn’t. Polling in the US has asked for decades, “are you voting more FOR a candidate or agains their opponent?” 2016 was the first major election where people’s “against” vote outweighed the “for” vote.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Ah, I stand corrected!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But what will deter future presidents from enabling future genocides if they know they won’t lose a vote?

[–] tigeruppercut 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe starting with getting more than one dem into office in a row so each subsequent one doesn't have to fix the train wreck economy from the last GOPer giving trillions to the rich, then continuing to elect people on the left end of the party like Bernie and AOC so that future dems are forced to enact more social policies to win votes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That didnt work with either Clinton or Obama.

[–] tigeruppercut 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We didn't have a dem after either Obama or Clinton

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

No, but they had two terms. One of them was a corporate shill; the other an extension of GWB.