To you this is about Trump. To others it’s about the injustice they have suffered their whole lives that got worse under Trump but did not originate with him. Being able to laser-focus on Trump is a privilege; it assumes that the politically relevant parts of your experience before Trump were if not good then at least tolerable. This is not the case for a massive chunk of the population. I mean, hell, for example ICE kidnappings are nothing new; Trump is just performatively cruel about them. You can’t take a stand against some injustice and expect the people experiencing the chunk you’re letting go to help you. As a wise man once said:
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
Yes, we get it, you don’t want any allies in your fight against Trump that aren’t perfectly aligned with every part of your fight against Trump. You don’t need to keep on driving it home now, you’ve amply demonstrated why Democrats just can’t seem to get it together to oppose him.
Yes, the party that is literally the only party that can possibly remove Trump due to America’s two-party system. That party.
You don’t support them removing Trump? Then you’re fine with Trump. That’s the reality of the situation, and your insistence that only some magical fairyland third party that happens to align perfectly with your ideals must be allowed to do it is - as I have repeatedly said - exactly the problem that this thread is about.
You really can stop illustrating it now, we all get it.
To you this is about Trump. To others it’s about the injustice they have suffered their whole lives that got worse under Trump but did not originate with him. Being able to laser-focus on Trump is a privilege; it assumes that the politically relevant parts of your experience before Trump were if not good then at least tolerable. This is not the case for a massive chunk of the population. I mean, hell, for example ICE kidnappings are nothing new; Trump is just performatively cruel about them. You can’t take a stand against some injustice and expect the people experiencing the chunk you’re letting go to help you. As a wise man once said:
Yes, we get it, you don’t want any allies in your fight against Trump that aren’t perfectly aligned with every part of your fight against Trump. You don’t need to keep on driving it home now, you’ve amply demonstrated why Democrats just can’t seem to get it together to oppose him.
The Democrats? Seriously? These Democrats? Sigh.
Yes, the party that is literally the only party that can possibly remove Trump due to America’s two-party system. That party.
You don’t support them removing Trump? Then you’re fine with Trump. That’s the reality of the situation, and your insistence that only some magical fairyland third party that happens to align perfectly with your ideals must be allowed to do it is - as I have repeatedly said - exactly the problem that this thread is about.
You really can stop illustrating it now, we all get it.