Thread by @Enichan, So this will probably be my last political post for this election [...]

So this will probably be my last political post for this election cycle. What I& #39;ve come to isn& #39;t a popular message and it pisses people off so I& #39;ll explain my thinking once, in this thread, and then shut up about it.

I don& #39;t think people should vote for establishment dems. 1/

Beyond Biden being good or bad. Beyond what happened to Sanders. Beyond the rape allegations and whether or not they& #39;re true.

The establishment dems aren& #39;t just bad, they& #39;ve made it clear, repeatedly, that this is what they think the course is. 2/

They want to move right, not left. They don& #39;t want proper healthcare. They don& #39;t want a green new deal, even a green infrastructure jobs creation program. They don& #39;t want a livable minimum wage. They don& #39;t wanna increase taxes on the rich.

This is what they stand for. 3/

"Nothing will fundamentally change"

In 2018 the idea was that if the dems got a majority, they would slow down Trump.

Pelosi and Schumer haven& #39;t. They& #39;ve repeatedly given Trump awful things he wants for no reason and with nothing in return.

This leads me to my conclusion 4/

The dems, with their milquetoast neoliberal incrementalism are mere steps away from being like the Republicans only a bit more concerned with their brands, cause to liberals they don& #39;t wanna look like the bad guys.

They& #39;re conservative corporatists. That& #39;s their values. 5/

Their leadership over the last 20 years (all of my adult life), or lack thereof is just as much the reason why we& #39;re here now, with Trump, as the GOP. 20 years of enabling the GOP because of corporate interests hasn& #39;t helped either.

They won& #39;t save us.

They don& #39;t care. 6/

And voting for the lesser evil all this time is how we got here, too. You can& #39;t enable these people sneaking money to friendly corporations during a crisis while saying no to M4A during a pandemic and doing absolutely nothing for common people by voting for them in November. 7/

I don& #39;t know what the solution is. If you don& #39;t vote for them, worse will happen. But if you do, things will continue to get worse too. Healthcare. Global warming. Debt. Homelessness. Probably even immigrant concentration camps.

It& #39;s damned if you do damned if you don& #39;t. 8/

So if it were me (and I& #39;m only allowed to "vote" for candidates with my wallet by donating) I would not reward the establishment dems ineffectual corporatism and their constant enabling of this slow descent deeper into fascism because of capitalist interests in November. 9/

I would show up and vote. I would make my voice heard. I would vote against the GOP leadership like McConnell, Graham, Cruz, etc by voting for the blue candidate.

I would vote for blue progressive candidates

And for everything else including the president I would vote green 10/

That way, electorally, I would be sending the biggest signal I could to the democratic party that this shit isn& #39;t going to fly anymore while trying to curb the GOP& #39;s worst excesses.

I can respect anyone& #39;s choice to vote blue no matter who but I can& #39;t go along with it anymore 11/

Anyway. That& #39;s where I stand. I can& #39;t do it anymore. I& #39;m done with the democratic party because they& #39;re never, NEVER, going to fucking save us. Let all of DC sink into the swamp and let them all burn in hell.

And this is the last you& #39;ll hear from me this election cycle.

12/12

I& #39;ll mute this soon since no doubt this thread will probably cause people to come at me with knives out.

But hey at least y& #39;all got me to shut up about it after this so nobody can accuse me of throwing the election for Trump!

Oh and before anyone leverages the "well you& #39;re privileged, it won& #39;t affect you!" accusation at me: I& #39;m a queer poor person with asthma going through the immigration system, it fucking affects me.

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