Vertigo 7 wrote: ↑Mon, 24. Mar 25, 19:27
A 2 party system has nothing to do with someone's choice to back a known racist, rapist, and convict. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to understand that someone who has displayed such low regard for human life will be devastating to the lives and wellbeing of millions or more when given the power and opportunity to do so. And then to claim that it's somehow better that what the democrats want is disingenuous at best. And I'd bet a month's pay they're lilly white enough to not have to worry about ICE kicking down their door and labeling them a terrorist and shipping them off to Venezuela without trial.
You are right when you say that a 2 party system is not an excuse to vote Donald Trump. You are also correct in stating that by pretty much any objective measurable metric, America and the American people would be better served by the democrats. Them not wanting to dismantle the country alone makes that clear, leaving aside all the other obvious glaring issues.
However, the issues is that a two party system furthers political apathy. Only 63% of people who could vote did vote in America in 2024. Just to give you something to compare that to, in the 2025 German election 82% of people who could did vote. (We still ended up with 20% voting for a party that by now is clearly fascist, but that is besides the point right now.)
If you are a left leaning person in America there is no party for you. If you are a moderate conservative person there is no party for you. There is only a far right Christian nationalist party and a socially center left and economically center right leaning neo liberal party. All other parties are so irrelevant that they will never hold any power. If you, for whatever reason, don’t want Christian nationalists or neo-liberals to rule, for example because you are a leftist, you are out of options. Would I vote for the democrats over the republicans if I were an American citizen? Sure. But what good is a vote for the Democrats if people like Chuck Schumer end up voting with the republicans anyway? Honestly it sometimes feels as if America does not even really have two parties, but one political party and then a second party playing out some public theater to appease the masses while in the end always making sure that whatever the republicans want gets passed.
And it works as the public seems to be happy with the theater. There have been more extreme demonstrations in the city I have been living in for some years now over nonsense like the police trying to evict people from a squatted house (
pictured here) than there are currently in America when the government is being dismantled.
The Split Rattlesnake in X4 is a corvette disguised as a destroyer.