knightly the Sneptaur

The Left isn’t divided, it’s unrepresented.

The Democrats are a conservative capitalist party, which might be better than a fascist party but it’s still right-wing.

It’s been the official U.S. policy since Bush Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members’_Protection_Act

Right? I don’t understand why he’s quitting, clearly they don’t need to keep their opinions to themselves anymore.

I agree with you, except the Democrats are only “left” when compared to Republicans. The USA has a conservative party and a fascist one.

He seems to think Israel is a U.S. client state rather than the other way around. XD

That is a very difficult argument to make convincingly when we just had an election where the incumbent was forced off the ballot mere weeks from election day and their replacement might have won if she’d been allowed to be a “hope and change” candidate instead of promising to preserve her predecessor’s status quo.

You can’t dismantle the DNC and put forward a replacement leading candidate in the fall of an election year.

Of course you can. Only the USA has a 2-year election season, every other developed country on the planet does their elections in a matter of weeks.

The discussion on “hold your nose and vote for Harris, to keep trump out” has an unsaid (but often completely said) primer clause of “the DNC is shit and must change, it’s a priority of 2025 and beyond.”

I haven’t seen one Harris voter claiming they were stoked about her or the DNC.

Sounds to me like you should be begging forgiveness from the voters for holding their nose and making the election as close as it was.

Trump IS a moral dilemma

Trump is a consequence of the Democrats’ failure to live up to their own name. Bernie would have won in 2016 if the party leadership didn’t deliberately shut him out to run “She whose turn it was”.

, and given one vote, and no time to change things, the only option is to reduce harm. THEN build a better future.

Cool. So, now that we’re past that point, can we please stop playing the blame game and focus our attention on the “building a better future” part?

That’s the problem with treating an election like a moral dilemma, this perspective forces you to take the party itself for granted.

You sat and watched as the Democrats set up a Trolley Problem, but you’re blaming the people they put at the switch rather than they who tied us to the tracks in the first place.

You ought to be blaming the Democrats for pushing another status quo candidate without even running a primary.

The voters aren’t responsible for the uninspiring candidate they were offered, and the Democrats are too busy projecting their failure on their constituents to take responsibility and make changes to prevent it from happening again.

Blaming the voters for the absense of an anti-genocide candidate seems really productive. Maybe if we keep re-litigating the election for the next four years the Democrats will run Hillary again. /s