Well, they do make massive demonstrations when the same technique is applied to their own country by their politicians (and only then, not when their politicians do it abroad), were the ones against it are peaceful and get violently assaulted by the most piggy of pigs, whilst the ones who are violent are those demonstrating in favor of it and get friendly nods by the pigs.

Only a tiny fraction of Americans seem to genuinelly be against it out of principle (the kind of people who were as much demonstrating against targetted murders abroad under Obama as they are when it's done under Trump) rather than being against it only when it starts affecting them.

Same ones didnt show up last election though. Best i ever seen it put: the US has been sober a few days. Or have they even? Too early to tell.

IMHO, outside the ones who voted for modern progressive (the ones who are openly Social Democrats and Socialists and against all kinds of inequality including wealth inequality, not the pure Identity Politics liberals), voting blue in the US is just voting to restrict the more over iron-fist dictatorshiping to foreign countries whilst at home the riff-raff is controlled via a captured media and propaganda.

In the anti-Democratic voting system in the US the most democratic part isn't the election, it's the primaries, so the real thing that might give one hope is the increase in the number of genuine lefties winning Democrat primaries so that they were there as electable options in the actual election rather than one of the usual hard-right neoliberal in the pocket of the rich vs far-right fascist in the pocket of the rich "choice".

Voting blue isn’t going to help the housing issue. Voting red was supposed to but didn’t. We just need to build more, fuck the little endangered turtle no one cares about and put up so,e condos and apartments, that’s how you fix it

Well, the Fascists now have a party (more like two parties, one even more far-right than the other) and have to actually convince enough voters (like the inlaws of the person I replied to) so that they win the election, which doesn't always happen - for example right now the Government is in the hands of the (supposedly) center-left mainstream party (not sure if they're really left of center since nowadays european mainstream "moderate" parties are all neoliberal to at least some extent).

In the time of the dictatorship they had absolute power and didn't need to convince anybody to have power (but, perhaps, the military leadership).

So things did change, though the change was indeed not at all started by them being overthrown.

Nope, fully communist now.

The continent is North America.

The correct one is the one the entire world uses when speaking English.