Comment by Victor@lemmy.world on Voting for the lesser evil is still evil

The image only works if the right always wins though?

Then please explain how this works. This image isn’t doing it for me.

If the republicans win, it goes further right. If the democrats win, it stays where it is. So the only movement is to the right, never left.

That simply explains what’s visible in the image, not whatsoever why.

If the democrats win, it stays where it is.

Like, why is this the general assumption?

If this were true, there wouldn’t ever have been a democratic president, right? Except maybe once in the beginning?

😐… where exactly did I lose you? Just asking “What?” doesn’t really help me to answer you. What is your actual question, please?

I think you’re taking this a bit more seriously than it’s intended to be, but yeah, there have been Democrat presidents, but there still isn’t gun control, univseral healthcare (not even for children!), etc.

Politicians are walking a fine line between catering to what the people want and deciding on things that actually benefit the people. It’s a difficult thing. Should politicians represent the people, or should they have the mandate to make decisions the people may not agree with but are better for the people.

At the very least, they shouldn’t make decisions that benefit only themselves and their rich friends. 💀

I have a hard time taking this as a joke, if it was intended as one, because there were very serious discussions regarding this before and after the election.

The “lesser evil” won in 2020. We didn’t move back to the left.

Pray tell, how is strengthening unions & workers rights, forgiving student loans, not ‘left’? SMH

Pray tell, how is genocidal fascism “left”? SMH

Ok I’ll try this again without calling you a c***: saying that X is is not responsible fo Y does not mean that you think that Y is good. In this case, nearly everyone in the US govt (regardless of party affiliation) has supported arms sales to Israel for as long as they’ve held the position. The fact that you think me pointing this out is equivalent to excusing or approving it surprises me, but then many single-issue individuals can get irrationally passionate on those issues, so I shouldn’t have been as surprised as I was I suppose.

and the Biden administration did more to restrict sales than most

Oh? Provide examples.

Pray tell, how is strengthening unions & workers rights

Strikebreaking and photo ops didn’t strengthen shit.

forgiving student loans

Was the only bright spot in his presidency.

Now how was supporting a genocide “left?” I mean, it may be to your left. Maybe you want active participation?

Are there more examples of this happening? One event isn’t a very good sample size… “IT DIDN’T WORK GUYS, SEE?!”, I mean, sure… But there are more circumstances and variables and conditions to an election lol.

How many times do you want to move to the right and not back to the left? How many more times will it take to satisfy you?

I mean, as long as it’s a stable ratio, the whole concept in this post falls apart. What are the statistics on left/right leaning presidents throughout history?

Does the rightward shift that has resulted in the “good” party supporting genocide indicate stability to you?

It does not, but this happening for one election doesn’t prove an unstable ratio, or rate of change. You have to look at the historical pattern for that.

I don’t think this is the problem of some sort of “phenomenon” of a left party becoming the right party because people are voting for the “lesser evil”. That makes no sense to begin with. If everyone voted for the lesser evil (the left), the lesser evil would not feel the need to take on some evil from the right to please the American people who are voting with their rectums, dropping straight up doo-doo in their ballot boxes. They would be able to just have sane politics. No? Otherwise, why are they doing some evil? And why is the right doing a shit-ton of evil? It’s because they are playing the American people for fools. Exploiting their culture of “protect our land of the fReE” and their “black or white” argumentation and “we vs them”, “good versus evil”, “no gray areas” small brain mentality.

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