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@ianb I get it, in some sense. "Oh, the Dems don't do anything", "The Dems suck up to the donors and corpos", but at the same time Joe from Mastodon gets up in arms when Proton posts that they're supporting right-wing politicians, and that Dems, for all their faults, are still much better in this regard.

So why not apply the 'lesser evil' approach to presidents in the US? Why must it always be "if this Dem president doesn't do exactly X, Y and Z, I'm not voting for them".

Some people would rather have a fascist, or a different Russian plant like Jill Stein, or that "we deserve this fate" because the Dem candidate isn't the fairy godmother, modern-day Jesus Christ, Keanu Reeves, some saint or deity that magically waves their wand around and fixes everything?

People, breaking shit is easier than to build. It's easier to talk shit and to sit on either side of the fence, but it's much harder to understand every ramification, and to remain somewhere in-between or at least realistic.