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If you give up and vote for Democrats or Republican's: -you are voting for putting people in prison for marijuana. -You are voting for a party that will pretend to care only to watch key legislation die because 2 senators said "no", despite being from the party that claimed to want the change. -You vote for 2 more years of a locked government. There is no solution to the problems the 2 parties have created by voting for either of them. Nothing ever gets permanently better under either Democrat or Republican. They are the problem. -Don't use Geordi to support your ruling class. Geordi comes from a world that got rid of boomer parties and they run the freaking galaxy.
Your frustration with the system is valid, but you're missing the point. The time to argue about the rules of the game is not in the middle of the game. Between rounds the rules should absolutely be examined, changed, and balanced for the better, but once the game has begun you can only play within what has already been established.
To be fair, Kamala is our third Presidential candidate this year. 😂
If you can't see daylight between the parties, and hold that they are identical rather than one being markedly less awful than the other (note: less awful, they still have are awful in their way), then you are as annoying as the people who were screaming back in 2021 that anyone who wasn't voting Biden in 2024 is a monster (please, tell me again how criticizing Biden is the worst thing I can do to keep Trump out of office). Y'all are catastrophizing so hard that you've forgotten how to build political power, and are relying on big orgs to do it for you.
No, no, no! It's not the systemic oppression of the poor and PoCs that's the issue. Or that basic civil rights can be voted and legislated away by a fascist minority. It's because a handful of people don't personify the system's problems into Trump's facade.
Harris has made Cannabis legalization a campaign promise.
You are literally complaining about democracy here. If you want more "yes" votes, elect more Democrats.
Democrats bring progress, and Republicans bring regression. I don't see how not voting is a solution to this problem. If you want progress, vote for the people who bring it.
Star Trek isn't real.
The last 20 years prove otherwise. Not only could they not pass Bidens' BBB agenda with both houses in 2021, but they couldn't pass universal healthcare or codify Roe with a super-majority in 2009. The only major legislative achievement of the Democrats since the 90s was passing a Republican-designed healthcare plan. That's not democracy, it's disfunction.
LMAO, no. The social safety net is a fraction of the size it was 40 years ago, wealth inequality is at record highs, and housing is unaffordable for half of Americans. That's not just from Democrats failure to bring change either; Bill Clinton did as much to gut welfare and deregulate Wallstreet as any Republican. At their best, the Democrats slow the rate of regression, and even that is far from a given.