All my life people have been telling me I need to vote for the lesser of two evils because SCOTUS, because down ballot races, because the alternatives are worse, etc. etc.
Republicans currently control:
- The Presidency (and probably the next one too)
- 5/9 SCOTUS seats (probably soon to be 6)
- 7/13 Federal appeals courts
- 53/100 Senate seats
- 26 governorships
- 29 state legislatures
In my lifetime, inequality has skyrocketed. Real wages have flatlined. Incarceration rates are shockingly higher than any other developed nation on earth. Gun violence is beyond dystopian. The climate is already ruined. All our freedoms have been eroded. Privacy is gone. Everyone under 50 has collective financial expectations worse than their parents. Dying people routinely have to beg for money for medical treatment. We are still actively fighting wars that serve absolutely no purpose.
The only two bright spots are that gay people can get married and it’s legal to smoke weed in a handful of states. That’s pretty much the full fucking extent of lefitivist progress over the past half century.
And now y’all are telling me I have to vote for another centrist Dem because the alternatives might be worse? Almost everything has literally been getting worse my entire fucking life. If the Democrats want my vote in November they need a better argument, because the one they’ve been using is demonstrable bullshit.