keys42

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[–] keys42 6 points 1 day ago (6 children)

This is something I see come up a lot, but I think people are severely underestimating the amount of infrastructure that would be lost by "starting over." Fundraising, state committees, local committees, volunteers, etc. "Starting over" effectively means surrendering nearly every election on any scale larger than a municipality to MAGA Republicans for years while those networks are rebuilt and the country cannot survive that. We need more political parties, but unless and until a viable 3rd party emerges, we're stuck with what we've got and refusing to support the only non MAGA options at the ballot box will actively make the country worse.

If you don't like it, help build that 3rd party and recruit candidates and donors to your cause (or try to shift the DNC and the Overton window back to the left). Until that's done there unfortunately isn't a better alternative.

[–] keys42 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, where everyone gives duct tape and the traditional holiday greeting is "keep your stick on the ice."

[–] keys42 2 points 2 months ago

Also Adlai Stevenson in the 50s although he lost both times.

[–] keys42 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm not suggesting that corporations aren't inflating prices, but your chicken breasts come from birds which are slaughtered pretty young, as opposed to egg layers so there is a much larger window to be infected.