You've certainly whitewashed Dems quite a lot. You're fundamentally not wrong though. As bad as the Dems are, and they are very bad, MAGA is undeniably worse. If we had some other electoral system, we could safely explore other options. But we don't. We have FPTP, which makes it a binary choice between bad and worse.

And worse is just so, so much worse. That doesn't make bad good, but it's still a binary choice. You'd have to be evil or stupid to try to muddy the waters so that bad seems close enough to worse that people don't feel the urgency of choosing bad to prevent worse.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The lesser evil choice is whichever hastens the collapse of your monstrous, genocidal empire

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Dems can be convinced to try other election systems besides FPTP because they fundamentally believe in democracy. From my perspective, fixing things without violence is still an option with Dems. It isn't with Republicans.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

because they fundamentally believe in democracy.

Westerners will go on and on about how North Koreans are brainwashed to worship their leaders, then say shit like this.

fixing things without violence

Apparently doing the modern holocaust doesn't' count as "violence" to white supremacist BlueMAGA fascists.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I'm hoping Musk gets some momentum with his third party. Either it splits the Republican vote and slows down this freefall into fascism, or he dumps tons of resources into promoting some variety of RCV. Either way, that's a net benefit in my eyes.