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I remember people ridiculing Bernie because he pointed out that he'd been one of the few who voted against the Iraq War, despite the fact that it turned out he was right. There were no WMD's. The US spent trillions and all they did was destroy millions of lives and make a handful of rich people even richer, when they didn't need the money in the first place.
That's why these wars keep happening. They're wonderful for unaccountable wealth transfer. It's why we're involved in Ukraine. It's why we're helping Israel commit genocide. It's why we've helped Saudi Arabia brutalize Yemen for the last eight years.
If Harris wants my vote, tell me you're going to cut the military budget, not increase it.
One of these sentences is not like the others.
Why is this tying back to refusing to vote for Harris? Am I crazy, or did that come completely out of nowhere at all?
If you care about genocide, destroying millions of lives, and making the rich richer, you should be phonebanking for Harris every day of the week. She may or may not be ideal but it hardly matters. Her opponent is 1,000% worse by any conceivable measurement.
And then, after the election is done: !rcv@ponder.cat to lay a foundation for better candidates beyond that in the future.
It all ties back to Democrats, because they enthusiastically participate in war crimes, and that's a problem for me.
I can look back on the last 40 years of Democratic rule and come to a very objective point of view on this. She's Reagan with lipstick.
Much as I plan to hold my nose and vote for Harris, I can't help but feel simultaneously bemused and saddened how every time you talk about her actually trying to earn your vote, you receive comment after comment tearing you down as though her terrible policy is fine and that only YOU can stop Trump. As though Harris herself were powerless to change her own platform to appeal more.
Party loyalty is so strong these days entirely too many people forget that candidates have agency. They'd rather shame people or call them bots than consider if it might be more effective for the candidate to actually listen to their own constituency.
It's been a weird summer.
It took Harris two months to do the very basic thing of putting a platform on her website, and in that two months, you heard absolutely nothing about policy. What you heard were two memes repeated ad infinatum: Joy and Weird. Then since the debate, they've added a two new memes: The Dogs and Crowd Size. The reality is that she can't talk about Biden's record because most of the country has to work harder for less money than they did in 2020.
Meanwhile I don't currently have a car because I've lent mine to my 80 year-old parents so they can drive for DoorDash every day, because if they can't, this government will let them become homeless. This is happening in a time when the Democrats had the presidency and Congress for two years, and from what I can tell, all they really cared to do was make the wealthy even richer and find ways to involve our country in more war.
How am I supposed to be joyful? If you're a wage earner, you're already living under fascism, because if you don't work that 60-80 hours a week, this country will let the monied destroy you.