The Pennsylvania Democrat recalled his time serving as a Hillary Clinton surrogate in 2016, even after he supported Bernie Sanders in the primary.

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    His only redeeming quality is not being Donald Trump. He’s otherwise too fucking old and out of touch with the vast majority of the country like most of our government is.

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      It’s almost midnight. You just got out of your job, a restaurant in a somewhat seedy location in old downtown. You leave through the backdoor into an alley and suddenly notice you’re not alone. The metal door just closed shut behind you.

      You look to your right. There’s a guy with a knife. He’s looking at you and smiling in a weird manner. He starts walking towards you menacingly.

      You look to your left. There’s a well known old drunk there. He smells bad and likes to hug people who are passing by. If you go that way, you will be hugged by him.

      What do you do?

      If you go right, you’ll get stabbed and killed. If you do nothing and stay put, you’ll get stabbed and killed. If you go left, you will be hugged by the stinky guy. It’s disgusting and not ideal, but you’ll not be stabbed and survive.

      What do you choose?

      I see people all the time with the dumbest arguments to not vote. “He’s not progressive enough”, or “he’s part of the system”, or even “he didn’t do enough for X” (insert your favorite minority here).

      It’s all true. But the universe is not a perfect or ideal place. Not voting for the imperfect guy gets us a true horrible alternative. It’s a choice between bad and awful.

      Please vote bad and keep the awful away.

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        Gotta move the Overton Window from the far right back towards the center right before you can start moving it to the left.

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          Tell that to the Democrat PACs funding the most insane fascist Republican primary candidates, so they can point out how insane their opposition is, effectively shifting the Overton Window even further to the right.

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        There’s a well known old drunk there. He smells bad and likes to hug people who are passing by. If you go that way, you will be hugged by him.

        Lol did you do this on purpose?

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        People say perfect is the enemy of good, not good is the enemy of perfect. So, for bad and awful, it would be awful is the enemy of bad. I think that is not what you’re trying to say.

        I hope that drunk isn’t hugging me to make it easier for the other guy to stab me.

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        Ah, the false dichotomy, neat.

        Abstaining is always an option. You can always just ignore either shady individual - you aren’t required to pick one.

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        The United States is not a democracy. In 2016, a man who lost the general election was illegitimately installed as president under the guise of some imaginary lines having more meaning than the actual, objectively factual will of the people as measured through a democratic vote. Unless you’re in a swing state, who you vote for doesn’t matter at all.

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          There are many types of democracies, and we live in a representative democracy which is very much a democracy.

          There is exactly 1 direct democracy on the planet. Costa Rica is close but not quite.

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            Even ignoring how your vote doesn’t matter if it’s not a swing state, your vote is also worth many times more or less both for legislators and the president depending on which state you live in. That’s not a democracy. In order for weighted votes to count as a democracy, you would also have to count much more strongly weighted votes, like if for example, billionaires’ votes were worth a million times that of the average Joe.

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              That’s like saying your vote doesn’t matter if you have a minority opinion so democracy doesn’t exist at all. It’s a bullshit line of reasoning.

              Also your vote is extremely important at the local level. Our housing crisis is entirely a local voting issue.

              A billionaires vote counts for exactly the same as yours. Sorry to break your bubble.

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                I feel like you skimmed my message instead of actually reading it, so I’ll give you a chance to reread it.

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                  No your post is just nonsense people repeat as part of the general American zeitgeist of “can’t trust government.” It has no basis in reality.

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          I agree with your first two sentences and then the train just jumps the tracks and plummets down a ravine. There’s all kinds of ways who you vote for matters. Complete disengagement like what you’re suggesting puts us on the fast track to fascism and nihilism.

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            Sorry, who you vote for as president* doesn’t matter. Local elections can still have a big impact on your life and you can influence them directly.

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        I choose neither. Instead, I jump, grab the bars of the fire escape overhead and climb up. Stinky hugs stabby, gets stabbed and dies. Then I jump down from the fire escape onto Stabby, knock him down and stab him with his own knife.

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        Your analogy does not work, as the situation presented requires you to either go to the left or to the right.

        In real life, there are many options and gray areas. One of those options is to refuse support to anyone who works against the populace, regardless of their political affiliation.

        The world would be much better off watching the US turn far-right and implode than it would be maintaining the status quo.

        I would rather watch the US die as a Nazi state than support the lesser of two evils. Remove them as a global superpower. Move out of the way and allow other states to bring better systems of government forward. Maybe something salvageable can be found in the wreckage.

        That’s the part Fetterman fails to realize as well: Right now is not okay. Continuing the status quo is not okay.

        Your analogy also equates the death of the nation with the death of the self, which is not even remotely true either.

        Everyone knows not to negotiate with terrorists, until election season.

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      Yeah, I can think of a parallel. The Soviets and the West allied to defeat Hitler but neither wanted to live under the other’s rules.

      “Not GOP” is the best choice, but I’d like to see a different “not GOP” than the current one. Or even better, a system that doesn’t boil it down to two choices and an all or nothing vote.

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        The difference there is that they knew eventually the war would be over and they didn’t have to be allies any more. Instead, the DNC pulls out this same rhetoric every election, and they’ll never stop.

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          Yeah, another difference was that the Soviets and the West both wanted to defeat the Nazis. I think the moderate Democrats know that if the right is properly defeated (with election reform that opens up the system), they’ll also lose their power since the “we’re not the GOP” votes will dry up. Though the game is getting more dangerous as the GOP’s base is calling for Democrat blood and they don’t need the Dems like the Dems in power need them.

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      You’re 100% right. I pretty much hate Joe Biden. But I voted for him and will again, because there’s no better way to move towards what I want unfortunately.

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        Stop downvoting the exact sentiment this article and thread are espousing.

        Wtf? So what they hate Biden? Mf voted for him!!