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Bold of you to assume there’s going to be a next time.
The ratchet effect is incorrect because it fails to describe the actual dynamic at play. Neoliberals move one step forward while fascists move three steps back. A fascist power grab followed by a neoliberal’s incremental changes appear to the causal observer as the ratchet effect.
The solution is not to disparage the democratic process, thereby denying ourselves the chances of ever getting progressive or socialist agendas implemented. But to recognize it is nonviable to ever allow fascists to win. Especially when you only have neoliberals to replace them with.
I should have come up with this sooner, but it really takes seeing the sword of Damocles overhead that is impending fascism to not give a shit what others think of you.
God, if only we hadn’t voted for the Democrats. Then things would really have improved.
If only the Democrats had run a progressive candidate with popular policy proposals.
Would’ve helped. Still doesn’t excuse the “BOTHSIDES” game on the eve of literal fascism.
You admit that running an actual progressive instead of a pro-fracking genocide apologist would be better, yet you think that admitting the weakness of our fascist “allies” isn’t excusable?
Make it make sense.
You admit that running an actual progressive instead of a pro-fracking genocide apologist would be better, yet you think that admitting the weakness of our fascist “allies” isn’t excusable?
Make it make sense.
Big difference between “Dems ran a weak campaign and are feckless out-of-touch morons” and “Liberals are part of a duopoly conspiracy to move everything rightward and things only get worse, please ignore that we haven’t been moving continually rightward since the induction of the current two-party system”
I don’t see any contradiction there.
The dem candidate literally platformed Republicans as part of the campaign, how are we supposed to pretend that they actually think Republicans are a threat to democracy?
