• sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I think it’s a bunch of kids with little life experience. On one hand their passion recalls fading memories of my own young, idealistic self in my 20s. On the other hand, politics doesn’t work with raging hardliners. On the third hand, the world is pretty fucked, the US is going to hell in a handbasket and I don’t think geriatrics are who we should be voting for. You say Congress is the problem, but really, it’s voters. Voters just fucking suck. But unless someone wants to do away with any type of democracy, shitty voters is where we are at.

    • reverendsteveii@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      raging hardliners

      you’re not wrong, politics is about compromise and in the most successful nations no one gets what they want and no one leaves the bargaining table happy. the question is, how does one work the politics of coalition and compromise when the people you’re supposed to coalition-build and compromise with are raging hardliners. How does one find a middle ground with open christian nationalist fascists?

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        How does one find a middle ground with open christian nationalist fascists?

        You don’t. You must never. Because there is no middle ground.

        The fact that Dems keep trying to “reach across the aisle” is one of the worst parts of what’s going on right now. They have no spine to stand up for what’s right.