Political Memes

If it's that important maybe the democrats should start appealing their target group instead of trying to get Republicans to vote for them (which didn't really work anyways)

Remember when the Democrats propped up Trump thinking Clinton would curbstomp him because who the hell would vote for him? Good times. (Europe is doing the same, pushing the far right to pretend the vanilla right is the only viable opposition and actually pretty center, and then act surprised when everything implodes)

It’s a trick to keep preserving an awful status quo in perpetuity for your whole life.

Surely the fascists will pack up and go home if the Democrats can just win this one time…

If your system has allowed itself to devolve into "vote for my slightly less oppressive status quo or else you get abject oppression" then you kinda have to begin admitting the entire system is folly and needs to be dismantled.

I think their point is that they pull the same tactic every year and it's clear it's shit

I fully agree, it's too bad that the point was lost on so many people who just heard "YOU HAVE TO VOTE" and didn't make any effort to absorb reality and multiple angles of actual news stories and not just Facebook memes and shorts played on Twitter.

The last several elections have had the highest turnouts in US history, including the largest youth turnout, but on exit polling the people were completely tuned-out and said they didn't actually think there was meaningful differences between candidates and just based their decisions on prices of groceries and who was in charge when the prices got high... by their own reckoning. A lot of "Well maybe Trump will shake things up" and seemed to have ZERO memory of his first term or that he was even president before.

Bush II was not "boring". His neocon illiberal war on terror, torture, rendition, patriot act and illegal war started the descent into what we are experiencing now.

To be fair, the current election is always the most important one of the time. Does no good to ruminate about the past, and nobody knows what the future holds.

Don't worry - they get the same heckling from the same crowd

Unironically typing "repeat the mistakes of the past" with ignoring the history of how we got here displays an astoundingly myopic view of recent events. Both parties serve the same billionaires, which is why the Republicans do what they want and Dems are content with "decorum". In fact, our two-parties have displayed a remarkable overlap on the Venn Diagram:

• Republicans and Democrats both vote to increase ICE funding every year. 
• Republicans and Democrats in Congress both practice insider trading. 
• Republicans and Democrats presidents both bail out corporations that are "too big to fail" (i.e., Bush Jr., Obama).
• Republicans and Democrats both vote to give corporations subsides (i.e., corporate welfare). 
• Republicans and Democrats both receive campaign finances from billionaires (i.e., legal bribery). 
• Republican and Democrat presidents both order drone strike, resulting in mass civilian casualties.
• Republican and Democrat presidents have both bombed countries without Congressional approval (e.g., Trump, Biden). 
• Republicans and Democrats both kept Guantanamo Bay open for decades. (A precursor for Trump's treatment of immigrants.) 
• Republicans and Democrats both crack down on whistle blowers. 
• Republicans and Democrats both maintain a surveillance state on its citizens. 
• Republican and Democrat administrations both assassinated democratically elected leaders overseas. 
• Republicans and Democrats both fund Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. 

Trump was not created ex nihilo. Presidential power has been growing for decades. Congress has been blatantly corrupt for decades. We have broken (and supported breaking) international laws for decades. Trump is a symptom of a larger problem: our government functions to serve profit rather than people. The problem will continue long after he is gone, unless the American people demand more.