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The Iran War Shows Why It’s Time for Chuck Schumer to Go (jacobin.com)
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Chuck Schumer is not only failing to meet the moment by not opposing the war on Iran. He has long been a hawk on Iran among Democrats and Americans who are yearning for peace.

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[–] 32 points 8 months ago (8 children)

I fucking hate that our options for political parties are inept or evil

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  • [–] 49 points 8 months ago* (6 children)

    outwardly inept or evil

    Schumer and Jefferies didn't slow-walk votes on war powers resolutions for two weeks before this new war because they thought it would fail; they slow-walked it because they didn't want to have to put Democrats on record as having voted against it. They didn't want to have Democrats being held accountable for the manner in which they govern and the consequences which extend from that governance.

    The Democrats only appear inept if you misidentify their objectives. When you recognize that most of the party and definately party leadership, by and large, have the same goals as the fascist party, it becomes more difficult to interpret their alleged incompetence as being anything other than performative. They achieve the goals of their funders. If you are Israel, you are getting what you paid for.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    This is why I'm giving up on changing the DNC and refocusing my efforts on changing the voting system from First Past The Post to Rank Choice.

    But we also need the fascists out of power, and kept out of power.

    These two things have to be achieved in parallel. That's why I vote Democrat, but only until I have Rank Choice at which point the Democrats will become my second pick (and then eventually third pick, and hopefully someday not one of my picks at all)

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago*

    changing the voting system

    You can’t do that until you get the people who can and will do that in power. Logically for the US, the way its voting system is structured and how people vote, the only way to do that is primary out the bad within one of the parties. Again, logic tells us which party that is.

    Personally I think the only way out of this is a peaceful sustained shutdown by the people or by some miracle it implodes, but the voting system won’t be changed until there are enough people in power willing to do it.

    Edit: removed an assumptive paragraph in the middle, I should have paid more attention to your last.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    But we have learned the hard way that Democrats don't keep fascists out of power.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah well, it's not their job to keep fascists out if power. It's OUR job. Us, the voters.

    Voting works. If it didn't, they wouldn't be trying so hard to stop us from doing it. And once we have Rank Choice we'll be able to move beyond the "an actual fascist/not an actual fascist" dichotomy. But until then, for fucks sake, vote "not an actual fascist" even if you don't like the person you're voting for. I don't care how terrible they are, if they're not an actual fascist then you vote for them. THAT'S how you keep fascists out of power.

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