I wish I had a party to vote for that I didn’t have to compromise my morals
Progress doesn’t work that way, though. You don’t hear Ukrainians say “I wish I had a peacetime so I didn’t have to fight; fighting is wrong” or Germans in 1932 saying “I wish I had a really good government so I didn’t have to compromise my morals and vote for the SPD” (oh wait…).
Or… I mean, they might wish it, but it’s not like it becomes a reason why all of a sudden the better outcome and the worse outcome become indistinguishable and we should let the worse one happen. One, this post is actually pretty dishonest and the guy’s actually by far one of the better sheriffs in the country and has actually made this specific reform already (see my longer post). But two, even if he hasn’t, that doesn’t mean that all of a sudden it’s okay to have the sheriff who wants to shoot all the Mexicans instead.
If you want change, vote for the Democrats in this election, so that Trump doesn’t make change illegal. Keep protesting for Gaza, keep trying to ditch FPTP, keep trying to push the Democrats to the left, absolutely. The sooner we can get a third party, the better; on that I definitely agree. Definitely you’re gonna be able to find some Democrats who are corrupt as fuck within the system. But I wouldn’t really use “this outcome isn’t what I want” as a reason not to try to figure out how to get the outcome you want, or to get discouraged away from participating in the system at all. That happened after 1968, and that’s how we got Reagan and the modern economic nightmare in the whole first place – was “I don’t want to compromise my morals and interact with the system and what’s the worst that could happen.”
Progress doesn’t work that way, though. You don’t hear Ukrainians say “I wish I had a peacetime so I didn’t have to fight; fighting is wrong” or Germans in 1932 saying “I wish I had a really good government so I didn’t have to compromise my morals and vote for the SPD” (oh wait…).
Or… I mean, they might wish it, but it’s not like it becomes a reason why all of a sudden the better outcome and the worse outcome become indistinguishable and we should let the worse one happen. One, this post is actually pretty dishonest and the guy’s actually by far one of the better sheriffs in the country and has actually made this specific reform already (see my longer post). But two, even if he hasn’t, that doesn’t mean that all of a sudden it’s okay to have the sheriff who wants to shoot all the Mexicans instead.
If you want change, vote for the Democrats in this election, so that Trump doesn’t make change illegal. Keep protesting for Gaza, keep trying to ditch FPTP, keep trying to push the Democrats to the left, absolutely. The sooner we can get a third party, the better; on that I definitely agree. Definitely you’re gonna be able to find some Democrats who are corrupt as fuck within the system. But I wouldn’t really use “this outcome isn’t what I want” as a reason not to try to figure out how to get the outcome you want, or to get discouraged away from participating in the system at all. That happened after 1968, and that’s how we got Reagan and the modern economic nightmare in the whole first place – was “I don’t want to compromise my morals and interact with the system and what’s the worst that could happen.”
For sure I know what system we are in and I vote.
I get that we have to fight for what we believe in, but I disagree that it is analogous to war.