Four thoughts this morning from the political wilderness:
1) Yes, our political system is broken. Really broken. Been fucked up & broken for awhile. Broken before Trump came along. In fact, Trump is just a horrible, ugly, dangerous consequence of a broken political system.
2. Yes, our broken political system needs reform. Major fucking reform. We need a viable 3rd party & a viable 4th party. We need to open up our primary system. We need to change the way people vote. We need term limits. We need to get rid of the electoral college. We need to do a lot of things.
3) BUT NOT RIGHT NOW. Right now, our ONLY job is to defeat Trump & Trumpism, which means defeat this Republican Party. Trump & Trumpism are immediate & real threats to our democracy. I come from the Trumpist/GOP base. I escaped that base. Trump/Trumpism has given up on democracy. They really have. They’re afraid of democracy which is why they’re trying to end it. My former party has become an authoritarian-embracing cult. They worship Putin, Orban & other strongmen, and they want a Trump or a DeSantis to be the same kind of strongman/dictator here. They’ve abandoned truth and they want their dictator to destroy their political enemies. This is what my former political party has become. DEFEATING THEM and SAVING OUR DEMOCRACY must be our only priority RIGHT NOW. Do this, and then we can reform our broken political system. So for right now, we’re all on team Democrat because Democrats are the ONLY way to defeat Republicans. And I say that as someone who’s not a Democrat. But I am right now.
4) Save our democracy now, reform our democracy later.
Reminder
We are over 3 years and almost 13 BILLION doses of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines (including mRNA vaccines) given worldwide.
There have been NO mass deaths.
NO mass side effects.
NO research proving issues.
NO widespread panic.
NO mass birth defects.
NO mass sterilizations.
NO sweeping new government mandates.
NO permanent lockdowns.
NO permanent vaccine passports.
Anyone who's claiming that they were "proved right" about vaccine conspiracy nonsense are speaking from a place of profound paranoia and ignorance.
The mRNA tech has proven itself a valid concept, anyone who says otherwise is living in a delusional land of podcasts and YT conspiracies.
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In every competitive election, leftists should vote for the leftmost viable option.
In the 2024 presidential election, that will be Biden.
Leftists should never throw away power. Vote accordingly.
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