We get shitty choices because our political system allows for institutional bribery.

Our choices will forever be limited until bribery is removed for the system.

Those at the top know what they’re doing.

They know this is the mother of all grifts.

15 could ultimately end up giving Biden the presidency, because it likely ended up killing more conservative voters.

And they won’t apologize for their behavior, but will certainly bark back that you’re an elitist.

At their core, many are just bullies and it nicely appeals to the emotionally stunted desires of their base.

I recently watched a Nazi documentary on Netflix, and the parallels beyond concerning. If Trump is elected, you should expect Brown Shirt like violence.

For those who think my statement is alarmist, it takes time for fascist propaganda to build inertia, and we’re somewhere in the middle of the progression. If you’re paying attention, you can see and hear the rhetoric getting more violent. They are following a similar playbook to the Nazis by stimulating the rural communities with more and more nationalist rhetoric.

Just add judges. Done.

You’re projecting logical thinking. Stop.

The Republicans need wedge issues for culture wars. It’s a numbers game and that’s all they care about.

Projecting logic and critical thinking on a party that’s moving towards fascism is a fool’s errand.

I had the exact same experience.

The wholly predictable outcome of poorly regulating capitalism.

“The market will create competition and the best products.” No. The market will seek the optimal method to make the most money, and if that optimal method includes killing people, that will be the method selected.

Start putting people in jail and taking businesses into receivership for bad behavior, and then the optional method for maximizing profit will also result in better products.

And they knew a long time ago it would be expensive and did it anyway.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

We should likely do as much of this as possible.

Seems this could accelerate the problem taking care of itself.

If the younger generations came together and voted, they could change everything in a couple elections cycles.

It’s just a numbers game.

+1

My long term solution would be uniting the under 50 vote to add the 28th amendment.

The 28th amendment needs to eliminate money/donations/bribes/grifts from the election process. It also needs to eliminate any form of augmented monetary enrichment for elected officials.

Until corruption via monetary gain can be somewhat controlled, we can never achieve a legitimate democracy.

What’s your strategy?

I’m not saying you’re wrong on some points, but tell me how you’re going to fix the “corporate hellscape.”

And not a simple, “vote for a 3rd party” response. Provide a viable, long-term strategy for getting out of this mess.

Then tell me which candidate gives you the highest likelihood of executing your strategy.

What are you going to actively do to change the future? What effort are you going to make to respect those unnecessary deaths?

And you somehow think voting for Trump, or giving him an advantage, will help in Gaza?

He will put zero pressure on Netanyahu. He’ll likely openly support the effort and say something like “the Palestinians are just like the illegals crossing our border.”

Voting isn’t picking someone you like, voting is choosing the person with the best chance of winning and creating policies aligned with your values and ideals. If you vote for somebody with zero chance of winning, you’re giving an advantage to the candidate who undermines your values being implemented in the long term.

If we had ranked choice voting, or if the alternative candidate wasn’t openly threatening democracy, the rationale would be very different.

The smart people tried to explain to the voters that Brexit would be an enormous failure, but the voters let their emotions get in the way of being rational, and now they’re suffering and wished they had voted differently.

We have the potential for something much worse with Trump. Much worse. If you can’t see through your emotions to understand that if Trump is elected your vote may never matter again, I’m not sure you have the rationale capacity to be worth the time I spent typing this response.

No! Lets say everything is binary, and use anecdotes as our primary means of logic!

They’ll eventually say it was a mistake, and then immediately go back to doing their normal BS.

Welcome to the outcome of poorly regulated capitalism - corporate benefit outweighs societal benefit.