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The two party system always comes down to who runs the least shittiest candidate.
For me. That's not always who wins.
And as soon as the shittiest one wins, the bar for "least shittiest" drops a whole lot lower - it's a race to the bottom.
Of course, none of this affects policy - the class who benefits from the status quo will get what they want irregardless of who is in the Waffle House.
Stop maligning Waffle House by comparing it to the White House.
Right? Say "Huddle House" if you're going to do that!
"lesser evilism" is the entire system, since nearly the beginning.
Tell me you're not a student of history without telling me you're not a student of history.
Regardless of the two party systems race to the bottom, 2016 saw the formal introduction of the Pied Piper strategy by the DNC during Hillarys campaign. Formally boosting the other parties evil factor by supporting trump and making the "vote for us, we arent them" the whole schtick.
Thank you... that's what I was referring to. Lots of people on here can't seem to remember even back as recently as Obama's campaign.
How so?
It's been lesser-evilism since the country was founded
Maybe the US but believe it or not there are functioning democracies outside the US.
Since 1948 at least.
No. Obama didn't have to rely on it to get into the Waffle House. Back then, the Dems could still promise some kind of "progressivism" (even though they never had any intention of delivering it).
Now look at them.
I don't think that's true I think they really tried to pass universal healthcare and were basically kneecapped by 1 or 2 democrats.
Yeah... it's amazing how that always seems to happen to anything that the rich don't like.
They tried to pass public option, not universal healthcare. Plus, if the rest of the democrats had really wanted it they could have done away with the filibuster and had an 8+ vote margin. But they didn't really want it, and they wanted a convenient excuse for why they couldn't do it, so the filibuster remains in place. And people still buy the flimsy excuse.
Fair point
What kind of alarmism is this? If you want choice, push for ranked choice voting and dismantling of the republican party, then you're free to establish however many new parties you want. Lots of countries manage to have 10+ parties on parliament
let's just embrace the greater evil/demonstrable threat now then, shall we?
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