timberwraith
To all of the folks who are fan-grouping hard for the Democratic Party, read this article at The Nation. It does an excellent job explaining why the rest of us are not feeling the fervor of your fan group cheers.
Those of us who are not cis/het/white/male/etc. *know* that we are considered to be disposable voters whom the party will turn against whenever it is deemed politically useful.
The party's hard swing rightward on immigration demonstrates this pattern.
timberwraith
➡️ Btw, anyone who comes into my mentions with, "Well, do you want Trump to win? What good will that do?" will get an instant block from me.
Hey, shithead, as I've said so many times, I'll vote for Biden and his shit mongering party because I have been left no choice.
It's a vote at gun point.
However, I fucking RESENT that my political support is being held hostage by the fucked up, gun wielding, bomb throwing clown car that is usian politics.
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@timberwraith
The biggest issue I have with the whole thing is that I don't understand why the Democrats do it. I get that they don't care, but seriously, if you want Republican things to pass, just become Republicans. Why don't they learn that they can't hold power with this weak-willed centrism? It's mind-boggling. They do it again and again as if it works to get them what they want.
And then, in my darker days, I consider that what they want is the illusion of choice, which is really Occam's Razor. I'd like to believe that they do genuinely hold some of the positions they claim to hold, but it's getting harder and harder to believe. I can't think of a better way to enact a wildly-unpopular agenda than to splinter your opposition into feuding clans who can't unite to defeat what they all agree is terrible. And make no mistake, the majority of Americans aren't rabid fascists. There's not broad support for a lot of Republican policies. But if you disaffect enough voters and disenfranchise the rest, you can win every time and claim to be following the will of the people.
I don't know. It's... infuriating. I'm not expecting Joe Biden to be a good person, but why doesn't he seem to want to win the election? Surely he's egotistical enough to want to win, right? Surely he's an amoral politician who desires power? If he's going to pick hills to die on, why the everliving fuck is he picking these ones?
Sorry, rhetorical questions all.
timberwraith
The true and solid fans of the Democratic Party have sounded betrayed and befuddled by Biden's low popularity and much of the left's dispirited response to the party in general.
Why is this a mystery to you? When someone treats you like a disposable object whenever it's convenient and that same someone smiles and supports people who are gunning for your abuse and non-existence, how do you expect us to respond?
With cheers and sentiments of flag waving support?
No.
That's bullshit.
timberwraith
And your resentment and patronizing responses to our dispirited reaction to Biden and the Dem party sends us a clear message that we don't matter to you either.
And that's why so many of us have given *you* the finger lately.
You sound as weak tea and shitty as the party you are fan-grouping so hard for, even as that same party supports violence and oppression toward so much of their constituents and the world.
You reek of the mediocre back stabbing awfulness of the party you love & support.
timberwraith
Not that any of this behavior by members of the Dem party is new. Democrats like Joe Biden and Bill Clinton and so many others* have been shaking their political asses for pale right wing america for well over 30 years now. (*A LOT of Dem politicians recently voted for an immigration bill that was a right wing miscreant's dream.)
They've never stopped and this immigration bill shows that Dems merely wear a paler shade of brown shirt than their peers on the other side of the isle.
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@intransitivelie @timberwraith Same questions I have been screaming over the last several years. What do they expect when they slap evil with wet noodles. Also rhetorical.
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