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Kay-El's avatar

Amen, brother. The “lesser of two evils” isn’t a great way to choose leaders.

Meg Sampson's avatar

I so agree Kay-El. The lesser of two evils is still evil.

Toma's avatar

What you've written answers your own question. The US has had a uniparty since at least Reagan. (If you had changed parties every time you voted since 1980 would it have made a difference? Voting 3rd party? Etc etc etc).

Project 2025 is responsible for ruin of the middle class, lifestyle of the average American and the economy. It started and has been implemented since the Reagan administration and Reaganomics was the beginning of a long term plan.

"In the winter of 1980, the fledging Heritage Foundation handed to President-elect

Ronald Reagan the inaugural Mandate for Leadership. This collective work by conservative thought leaders and former government hand—most of whom were not part of Heritage—set out policy prescriptions, agency by agency for the incoming President.

The book literally put the conservative movement and Reagan on the same page, and the revolution that followed might never have been, save for this band of committed and volunteer activists." (Project 2025 introduction) Note the phrase "revolution that followed ".

Trump was being promoted for the presidency during the 80's on television Regis Philbin Good Morning America and The Apprentice. MAGA was created by Christian televangelist. The citizens have been divided down to the family level by economic, social and philosophical (religious ) beliefs.

The Democrats have had multiple opportunities to repeal Reaganism and the transfer of wealth upwards under Reaganomics. The Democrats were unified under Clinton and Obama and did nothing to help the middle class which was obviously collapsing. In fact they assisted with the implementation of project 2025. Y2K under Clinton began the Internet mass surveillance network and Clinton was responsible for the economic collapse of 2008. This wiped out retirement IRAs began under Reagan, and transferred billions of dollars upwards.

Obama was a constitutional scholar who did nothing about the unconstitutional Patriot Act and removed Edward Snowdens citizenship for revealing the unconstitutional surveillance on us citizens. Americans have a constitutional right to bankruptcy and that right was eliminated exclusively for student loan borrowers under the Reagan administration along with usury interest rates, fees,fines and penalties (social security/wage attachment, loss of passport, cosigner prosecution federal and state tax refund confiscation). NAFTA began the elimination of manufacturing jobs with the signature of G.W. Bush and carried on a worsened (USMCA) under Clinton.

Obama and the unified Democrats did nothing to correct any of these. The minimum wage was never raised during Clinton or Obama.

These are just a few examples of the complicity of the two parties. A uniparty.

These are not failures of the democratic party. These are direct support for Project 2025. Voting has been useless since at least Reagan although my opinion is 1960 and the Kennedy assassination.

We've been led by the nose by both parties since Reagan. Voting is only for show. Corporations have been in control since the 60s. Voting isn't the problem. The voting SYSTEM is. Since the system is advantageous to the office holder it will never be changed. With the Internet major changes to the political system could be made to benefit "democracy" but the system is still running on a communication level of 1776. Imagine a bank doing the same.

Philip Martin's avatar

Stop making stupid people famous

Fraser's avatar

Right on, Fae! Plus right in the middle of it all you have maniacs like Musket buying people's votes so that anyone with a shred of goodness or can even spell it don't hava a chance, if they even have any interest being around evil people all day!!

Syndicated Entropy's avatar

How'd ee get here? In a hand basket.

iglue's avatar

Despair got you here. Keep it up. Its working. You seem to love it.

Yeah, compulsory voting does give us the lesser of two evils, but at least both evils know they are going to get voted against. Our last election in Australia, the trump loving leader of the opposition who wanted to be prime minister, not only did not win, he lost his seat, completely. No longer a politician.

No country i know, that does not have compulsory voting, is happy with the results. But they love to whinge!!

And yes, we have moron nazis here, too, who forget that we fought them and must never vote for them. And its thanks to American money and culture that we have such fools.

If we did not have compulsory voting i think we would be stuffed.

I look forward to the day you stop interfering with our politics, like in 1975, telling the Queen what to do, and fixed yourselves.

I have had a gutful. Despair gets you everywhere you dread, but if it makes you feel important, because you were "right"? Destroy the rest of the world with you? Bloody grow up, the lot of ys!!

Openly Fae's avatar

Well thank you for that thoughtful reply full of constructive advice. I know "bloody grow up" has a long and storied history of solving all problems instantly and forever.