• Optional@lemmy.worldOP
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            6 months ago

            You need a thesis statement?

            “Unlike . . . who” is not my reason for punching left.

            Any other questions?

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                6 months ago

                As to why anyone would punch left? Or just, at all?

                If the former, it’s because we’re in an existential crisis as a country, and while the right-wing nutjobs are either asleep at the wheel or as batshit or corrupt as expected, the “left” (for our purposes here) are contributing to the right-wing’s efforts, and proudly.

                If American democracy - the fate of not just the government but effects around the world - were a kitchen-on-fire, republiQans are cheering, Democrats are running in and out with a bucket of water to put it out, and “the left” as it appears to be defined here, is a petulant jerk at the table yelling “you suck at running!” every time the Democrat passes by.

                That’s why. If someone is an American and a registered voter, and they don’t vote Democrat this election, they have no right - none at all - to consider themselves progressive. And no one here (well, no American registered voter, anyway) should need that explained.

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                  6 months ago

                  Would love if dems fought this hard against the GOP.

                  Or had actual long terms othet than not being GOP…

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                    6 months ago

                    I don’t know what counts as “fighting this hard” but dems do fight the GOP all session long. No one else does, with the sometimes exception of, like, Angus King.

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                  5 months ago

                  Or maybe it’s because of reaching for easy, comfortable reasons when the rest of us can’t find them, and are seeking long term solutions.