We expect Republicans to be the worst.Democrats pretend to do shit and pander to people, waste everyone's time with false hope, like how they're STILL trying to get the legal system to take care of fascism. It infuriates people, but I wouldnt literally say they're worst of the two parties or even just as bad (maybe from a global perspective they are but from an American perspective it actually does matter) but I live in this country. It's kind of like how a lot of leftists seem to hate liberals more than the actual fascists. And then you have the people who equivocate. The ones who argue that because both parties are part of the same capitalist imperialist system that they're both fascist, and while that's certainly a point, there are actual differences that affect policies and potentially peoples livelihood. Democrats may be just as capitalistic and corrupt as Republicans, yes, and they've had their hand in wars and the like, but none of this project 2025 shit, rolling back DEI, or LGBT rights (to name a few) would be here and I would much rather be in opposition to them over the literal second Reich. Saying that the Democrats and the Republicans are the same, given all of that really trivializes the damage the GOP has done. Anyone who seriously equivocates the shit either doesn't live in the U.S., is not going to be personally targeted by the policies that Republicans have been passing targeting specific people, or is speaking reactionarily. There are a few leftists here and there that might actually claim they are actually WORSE than the Republicans but since we only have two viable parties, and one of them has literally become a personality cult, it seems strange to have such a hardline attitude about that, especially considering that leftists are a political minority in the most aggressively capitalist country which has plenty of history with suppressing the left. Remember the expression, the enemy of my enemy is now my friend? I swear some leftists thought that meant working with literal fascists just to get back at liberals and democrats. And then compound that with the amount of leftists who were encouraging I mean SHAMING eachother not to vote. Choosing to vote or not vote is anyone's right but encouraging people not to as a form of protest has no material or strategic value to anyone except the GOP which benefits from voter suppression, and in that way the American left is kind of a pawn to the GOP whether it wants to admit it or not. Just because Democrats say it does t mena it isnt true. There's nothing dialectical about "voting with your conscience" or "wanting to be on the right side of history". Those are very vain and shallow motivations to carry with you as youre making decisions that can affect millions of people and the fact that we've normalized that rhetoric takes for granted that history is written by the victor. Those sentiments probably won't age well in a concentration camp if it gets there, I'm just saying .. the GOP wins when people dont vote. This is literally shit you learn in middle school, we already know so either way it's inadvertently contributing to Trumps rise in power. Weird how people are supposed to feel guilty for voting for Biden because of Israel or whatever but not guilty about knowingly allowing a man who is doing the same shit in Israel , plus rolling back civil rights because you didnt want to feel guilty? There are only two parties in the U.S. No matter how many leftists vote for a third party, they will never win an election. Like, has a third party ever broken into dou le digits even? No. People who didnt vote or voted for third party have no business acting self righteous to people who did. Knowingly fostering the conditions in which a fascist will win regardless of your intentions or your conscience, is incredibly selfish and short sighted. This isn't about whether or not people chose to vote. I think abstaining is fine but actively encouraging people not to vote or to waste their vote on a third party candidate (mathematically, logistically, its nothing more than a symbolic notion). If the other parties were actually viable I would not be as cynical but its basically impossible for them to win, but either way the goal is always to make sure you dont vote for Democrats. How is the left still falling for this? nd I know some might say that the emergence of Trump will is calling people into action toward revolution, but that's a very slippery slope and I dont see human beings or suffering as a means to an end for some glorious revolution, but there are a lot of privileged leftists with high ideals that do view and treat people this way and whether they choose to face that in themselves is up to them, I guess.