• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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        6 months ago

        Awww shucks, most of the progressives got rat fucked by the party!

        Guess we get more “centrism” in a desperate appeal to people who actually don’t mind fascism that much, now that they think about it

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          6 months ago

          That’s just the nature of democracy mate.

          With two parties they will always align themselves just to the left and right of whatever “center” happens to be.

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            6 months ago

            you’re not talking about democracy, you’re talking about the specific system used in the US

            most countries in europe do not have a 2-party system, here in sweden we have one party (the social democrats) with 33% of votes and then like 7 other parties with decreasing numbers of votes, that have to come together with a majority of the votes to form a government.

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              6 months ago

              Yes, but all 8 parties will strategically position themselves around the overton window to gather as many votes as possible.

              If you have 2 parties as in the US then obviously it’s one party either side.

              I’m Australian BTW. 3 major parties, many small ones.

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        6 months ago

        I’m aware, and I’ve spoken up to defend Biden on this. In general I’ve been positively surprised by Biden’s voting record. I think a lot of people may not have went into the Biden presidency with the expectations I did. I expected fucking nothing. I voted for “not a fascist” in 2020. I was pissed he won the primaries, especially after how clear it was that he was the “fine whatever” candidate with a cop running mate.

        But also as a country we’re headed in the right direction on climate but we need to increase our acceleration. Biden keeps doing that and I’m glad, and I know the house is a deadlocked mess and the legislature is as important as the president this year. But, we need to decarbonize and we need to do it 20 years ago, or now at the latest. None of this natural gas bullshit. It’s gonna suck. Of fucking course it’s going to suck. We put it off for 50 years.