Nobody canvassed for him, he has no grassroots support, and a bunch of elderly property owners who are terrified of having to actually pay for anything and who’d like for things to “go back to normal” (permanent black/brown underclass of servile labor, “decency,” massive income inequality, permanent war, joke healthcare, “bipartisanship” aka defacto rule by Christofascists) voted for him in semi-sham elections that ensure that white people in the states that are more land than people forever-and-ever get to pick who represents “us” (the Iowa charade being the most obnoxious example).
All this after every television channel told them to do it.
Like if you’re okay with the way that we hold elections in the United States you are at least as much “the problem” as the most dead-end Trump cultist.
Most people don’t vote. No one is vindicated. The entire system exists roughly between “active disenfranchisement” and “televised personality contest.” Being in any way proud of the results of such a system is sad in and of itself. Giving yourself a victory lap for this failure of imagination is sadder still.
If someone asked me to give a eulogy for a segregationist I’d start making my plans to piss on their grave.
The “legacy of segregation” is not complicated.
Beyond that, the idea that any of the current crop of Republicans is interested in anything other than extracting value from working people in the context of a white fascist neo-feudalist ethnostate is demonstrably false.
So why is the valueless corpse you’ve proposed as the mascot of the “nothing can ever be better!” party adamant about “working with” these people?
Interesting you should say that DrDeth, my good friend Fisty McPaedophile, King of the Paedophiles, and honorary member of MS-13 just died while doing a terrorism. His last wish was that you stand up at his funeral and say nice things about him. I know you’re a decent guy so I told the funeral director you’d be up for it. I’ll PM you the address.
Speak for yourself. I voted for the candidate I wanted, and he got more votes than the candidate you wanted. I voted for the candidate I wanted in 2016, and she got more votes than the candidate you wanted.
Democratic voters have had two consecutive chances to vote for the candidate they want, and they’ve made it clear both times it’s not the candidate you want.
“Proud Normie Loser stepping on rakes”: The Political Party
The reflexive comfort of “we” and “us” and “them” to a particular subset of “Democratic voters” (cute illusion of choice trickery) is the most telling thing about the charade.
“Oh, my politics mostly revolve around having a banal and personally unthreatening television character as my mascot while enjoying undeserved comforts in a system of brutal oppression. Yeah, it’s mostly about being better than those rednecks.”
Great name-calling. That sure put me in my place. With your keen refutatitions of arguments, you might be happier posting in another forum on this Board.
The fact remains that more people voted for the candidate I favored than the candidate you favored. Twice.
“The media treats candidates with views that are potentially hostile to the entrenched interests and ownership of said media fairly!” said the most credulous person alive. “People know who and what they’re voting for! The United States has an educated population with high informational literacy and access to a number of even-handed contemporary and historical sources from which to form the cornerstone of reason.”
They inhale deeply.
“The best part? It’s all distributed evenly across the population!”
The fact remains that Candidate #1 was a historical disaster that could have been avoided and Candidate #2 stands for absolutely nothing. Being prideful about it seems misguided but you do you. “At least I’m not dumb, like a Republican!”
There are people in the streets waving guns because they’re bored and don’t believe in infectious diseases and the most that can be mustered by the “opposition” is the insincere celebration of a bunch of disinterested TV zombies delivering the candidate least likely to materially inconvenience them so that you can stop being sad about the buffoon on television.
Creepy old misogynist property owning fucks who exploit the servile labor underclasses subjected to income inequality by perpetrating an outdated imperialist dogma that enables the socio-economic inequalities under the yoke of an authoritarian dictatorship and the brutal capitalist heel on the necks of the prolitariat!
Do you disagree with any part of this? If so, which (“dictatorship” being an obvious Huge Hilarious Exaggeration and “proletariat” being conspicuously misspelled aside)?
If so, do you find it funny?
If so, is it the endless distant war on the poorest people on the planet that tickles you or is it the total lack of social mobility that people in your own country experience?