Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day agoBut I’m done with the partisan stuff, and think both sides are equally out of their minds.
Look, I can get behind the general sentiment of your comment, but this is just wrong and it’s dangerous to keep pushing this lie.
limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Democrats are out of their minds because they, as a party and a majority of participants: embrace electronic voting; do not demand recounts in very close elections; ignore exit polls that show more people voted for them than recorded in the elections they loose; have no interest in paper ballots etc etc.
If a party is against demanding better democratic practices in states they routinely lose. Sometimes loosing only narrowly.
And everyone needs them to win.
Then what would you call it besides a sort of insanity?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
You have to understand that I’m not trying to defend the Democratic party here. It’s just important to be clear that both sides are not even close to being “equally out of their minds.”
Do I really need to go into details here, or is it not just self-evident based on the past 6 months?
limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
First, I’m rather far far left. Both mainstream parties have traditionally been against things I hold dear. So things promoted by democrats can be poison to me.
But that is not the point.
When you have a party supporting the fascists, and a party that is less so; and that other party is against enabling, asking, paying token lip service: to democratic principles that every real democracy in the world holds dear, practices that would make the fascists loose.
That makes them a passive enabler.
There is nothing wrong with being a professional looser, and a corrupt mess, if that is what your voters want. But when it’s something that important and there is still no mass awareness of the situation, or even a glimmer of interest to do better.
That does make them equally bad. Much like a child abuse scenario where one parent beats up the children and another parent lets them.
And I think future historians will agree with me
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
The lack of nuance here is what kills leftism every fucking time.