Uspol Allies Vent: The Musical
o/` The love of the perfect destroys the mere good
o/` Just because you can doesn't mean you really should
o/` The race for the pure rarely goes very well
o/` But you don't know that
o/` Cause you're a zoomer
o/` And you're naive as fucking hell
Uspol Allies Vent: The Musical
@zebratron2084 I have been having this feeling a lot over the last few days. I kind of want to point out that wanting Democrats to do a lot better and recognizing they are on the whole still measurably, objectively better than Republicans are not mutually exclusive, but I know it will not go over very well, so I don't.
re: Uspol Allies Vent: The Musical
@arilin Memo to self: tomorrow when brain is fuller, tell Arilin the story behind "Vote For The Crook, It's Important."
(Spoiler/TL;DR: It was Louisiana. The Crook was running against David Fucking Duke. :O You can probably figure out the rest and its connection to our conversation yourself. :) )
re: Uspol Allies Vent: The Musical
@zebratron2084 I remember the basics of that story, actually, and I think I've used it in examples in the past. :)
re: Uspol Allies Vent: The Musical
@zebratron2084 Yeah, I remember getting off the "both parties are basically the same" train in the early-to-mid 2000s, in the fallout from Nader's campaign. In some respects, they are—but there'd clearly have been capital-D Differences, nearly all for the better, if Gore had taken office in 2000. (Starting with climate change, which for a politician at his level he was way ahead of the curve on.)