Is your suggestion to sit on our hands for four years?

90% of folks can’t be trained to kill.

Half of the remainder would rather frag their own commanding officers than some poor foreign kid.

I have a hard time blaming the voters for anything when they live in the most heavily propagandized country on the planet. Ultimately the voters opinions don’t matter when they can be shaped by billions of dollars in ads and media time.

You seem to be assuming that they didn’t vote for no apparent reason.

He’s annoying, but he’s right.

If they didn’t want to lose because of protest votes they should have thrown a bone to the protesters before the election.

The DNC chose this, everything else is just an attempt to deflect blame.

Dunno who’s downvoting you, you’re right

American voters have zero agency. We only exist to pay taxes and legitimize the state, which is not obligated to provide us with actual options to vote for.

The back half of the shell is easy though, I swapped mine with a transluscent purple backplate a few months back. ^_

Inseperability. Codependence. A lack of notable distinction.

Y’know, like how our “two” major parties are the opposite faces of the same capitalist coin.

What does that have to do with anything?

It disproves your BS.

He’s a member of the right-wing monoparty, isn’t he?

He was an independent, switching his allegiance to the monoparty didn’t help him win any federal elections.

You can’t be an independent if there are no parties to be independent from.

You seem to have very suddenly switched from accepting the reality of the American monoparty to suggesting that no parties exist at all. Are you sure you’re arguing in good faith?

Why is Bernie Sanders such an ultra-capitalist far-right Republican?

He isn’t, that’s why he’s not president right now.

I would like an explanation for this because I didn’t realize he was, but your own logic says he is.

You’ve never discussed my logic, you jumped straight from “American political parties only pretend to be separate entities” to “America’s most famous center-left social democrat is actually a right-wing ultraconservative” as if making the latter claim would disprove the former.

There’s a reason why America stopped doing conscription during Vietnam. Turns out that 90% of folks can’t be trained to willingly shoot people and a large fraction of the remainder would sooner shoot their own commanding officer than some poor foreign kid.

There’s a reason why the Democrat superdelegates refused to nominate the most popular American politician in 2015.

What goalposts?

America has a capitalist monoparty that only pretends to be two parties so as to maintain the illusion of choice.

60% less than the last presidential election. The one Biden won.

Stop blaming third parties for the Democrats’ failure to build a coalition within its own party.

It’s been so frustrating to have to put up with Democrats that try to enforce a Republican-style party line instead of building the coalition they need to win.

It’s even more frustrating when they put a hundred times more effort into trying to build a coalition with members of the party they claim to be a threat to Democracy instead of their own left wing.

“Thoughts and Prayers”

Seems a fitting epitaph for America.

Literally all of the third party voters could have voted a straight Democrat ticket and it wouldn’t have affected a single swing state. Third-party voting was down by about 60% versus 2020.

But you have to admit that RBG didn’t step down during Obama’s term, that they let Republicans keep Merrick Garland out of the SC and gave them that seat, that they didn’t put Roe v. Wade into law during any of the chances they had to do so.

Admit that they were excited about Cheney and Bush’s kids giving an endorsement and never even bothered putting Sanders on stage at a campaign rally.

Admit that their presidential candidate underperformed the abortion-legalizing state ballot measures in every state that had one.

If we’re talking about a distinction without a difference then we can admit that America is a one-party state that only pretends to be a two-party system.