Glad they’re taking off the gloves a little, but it’s always been a non-option to just make our lives significantly and irrevocably better like M4A or the PRO act and although they’re good at trying and failing, they never talk about the consequences as dire as they actually are with few exceptions.

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    11 months ago

    The democracy where dissidents get arrested and disappeared to extralegal foreign prisons or the one where they don’t. Where autocratic leaders can get peacefully deposed or the one where they don’t.

    It’s not about the policies of the democrats or republicans today. It’s about any policy you want to enact by voting in the future.

    My argument is you create a situation where democratic leadership either gets removed by intra-party politics and replaced by allies, or existing has no choice but to concede due to pressure from a large organized movement. Or likely some combination of those things. Honestly, I see this already happening to some extent but if more people were engaged in this strategy it would happen faster.

    • piefood@feddit.onlineEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      The democracy where dissidents get arrested and disappeared to foreign prisons or the one where they don’t. Where autocratic leaders can get peacefully deposed or the one where they don’t.

      Considering that these things happened both under the Democrats and the Republicans, you are going to have to be more specific.

      My argument is you create a situation where democratic leadership either gets removed by intra-party politics and replaced by allies, or existing has no choice but to concede due to pressure from a large organized movement.

      Once again, they’ve already signaled that they’d rather lose than do this. Fight for it if you want, but I’m not going to waste my time banging my head against the same wall.