Voting blue no matter who means never getting a progressive candidate.

Voting blue in the general has absolutely zero to do with the nature of the candidate that got there.

Also… What primaries should we be fighting in when they don’t have one?

How about all the other fucking ones where they do? That ONE FUCKING TIME they didn’t, and for arguably good reason, but who the fuck cares, let’s say they tried to fuck us over that ONE SINGLE FUCKING TIME and because of that “Nope, can’t vote blue ever again until there’s a progressive”

NEWS FUCKING FLASH: There will never be a progressive if Republicans run shit. Because we’re just about to lose our democracy.

The entire system needs to either be overthrown or taken over from bottom up. Neither of which has a fucking thing to do with voting in the general. I’m too fucking tired to come up with a good analogy at the moment, although I’m pretty sure you’ll reject all of this out of hand anyway, but even if “both sides” are causing harm, one side causes harm a HELL of a lot worse and faster than the other side.

I’ll take a fucking stab wound (not a slicing one, a puncture) over a gunshot wound or a grenade any fucking day, and I don’t think it’s THAT bad, although yeah, it’s not fucking great.

I’d eat moldy food before eating literal shit with arsenic.

And I’d do what I can to not get into that fight in the first place (knife or gun), or not eat that food in the first place. But if I find myself with those two fucking choices, yes, I’ll take the lesser harm every single fucking time.

Because while the fascists fucking play, in some states trans folks lost their IDs and I think they’re trying to make them register? I’ve had some personal issues recently so I’m a little behind on some of the news. While the fascists fucking play, we’re in war in Iran, invade Venezuela, attacks on various federal agencies that we DO like while getting other shitty agencies like ICE to kidnap, deport, and murder citizens.

So you support that shit, do you? Because if enough had voted for Harris, this shit would not be happening now.

The only way Democrats are worse is if people stop fighting for change if a Democrat is in charge and ignore the facists continuing to work.

Anyway, to make this not about you but to vent some steam before I go fucking sleep, FUCK this fucking nonsense that helps elect fascists. It’s yet another way the fascists are trying to win. They want us divided on every front, and by ALL fucking means abuse their control over the media to make Dems sound worse than they are and give Repubs all the fucking passes. The average asshat not paying attention thinks both sides are about the same, but if you look at what they actually do, they are NOT. Most Dem politicians are center or centre-right, and that is STILL better than right-wing nutjobs. But we need to get progressives to run for office. It can happen - AOC get elected. If we had a fucking Congress of people like her, that’d be a good fucking start. But the way we get more like her is NOT to vote for fucking TRUMP or to refrain from voting. It’s to get more progressives running for office. Discussing this shit online leads to protests, protests can lead to change if organized well. All of that is on the right path, even though online discussions and protests by themselves do little - and in the same way working toward getting progressives in control of the party would help solve things, but taking care of our oligarch problem is the real first fucking step.

But meanwhle. Voting in the fucking general for the fucking not-fascist option help keep things at bay better than putting more fascists in office.

Fuck this fucking timeline where we have to deal with this shit in the first place, but also have to fight to get people to understand WHY and HOW we have to fucking fight.