Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ May 22 2023 01:00pm)
Bruh, voting Democrat isn't a leftist thing to do. It's a "lesser of two evils" thing to do. Democrats are pretty staunchly on the right. They aren't giving meaningful pushback to the anti-trans stuff, and are largely avoiding it because Dems are also generally conservatives.
I think you over-estimate how far left you are, because even when you're being genuine you still come across as pretty conservative, which makes sense why you're comfortable voting for Democrats.
This is a pretty big problem with the American political system.
America isn't a true multiparty liberal democracy. It is a two-party state, which is a system in-between a true liberal democracy and a one-party state such as China.
The Democrats are the Left party, and the Republicans are the Right party. There are far left and far right elements in both parties respectively.
In a true democracy there would be a far left party and a far right party (like what exists in most European liberal multiparty democracies).
The far left people think that the Democrats are too right wing, and the far right people think that the Republicans are too left wing.
I would argue that the current state of the Democratic party is that it is a wholly far left party. But still not far left enough for some people.
This post was edited by El1te on May 22 2023 02:12pm