People minimizing Orbán’s defeat in #Hungary through voting, and claiming that the same can’t be done to Donald Trump: Remember that Orbán was in power for SIXTEEN YEARS, that is, 2.5× LONGER than Trump.
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People minimizing Orbán’s defeat in #Hungary through voting, and claiming that the same can’t be done to Donald Trump: Remember that Orbán was in power for SIXTEEN YEARS, that is, 2.5× LONGER than Trump. He had more than twice the time Trump has had to intimidate, corrupt, and destroy Hungary’s systems of voting. And yet, voting unseated him.
PLEASE do not preemptively give up on voting. Voting still works in the US, and it is quite likely that our voting infrastructure will far outlive Trump and his destructive party.
Authoritarians rely on a perceived popular mandate to continue their abuse. Voting can decisively deny them that mandate. Do not give up prematurely.
VOTE. VOTE. VOTE.
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Most seats in the Hungarian parliament are decided by first-past-the-post. So I don't think this is an apples to cannonballs comparison.
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I don't think I understand your post. I have disdain for what?
@Mab_813 For people complaining about the primary process.
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@Mab_813 For people complaining about the primary process.
I'm an Austrian leftist and I get zero say regarding party candidates. That's my point of view.
Also it's clear that candidates can win primaries even if the party establishment is against them. Fetterman and Mamdani (as different as they are) are both examples of that.
I was responding to a post about TISZA, pointing out that TISZA gives only party members a say and gives them a predetermined list of three candidates. So that's less influence than US Democratic primary voters have. -
I'm an Austrian leftist and I get zero say regarding party candidates. That's my point of view.
Also it's clear that candidates can win primaries even if the party establishment is against them. Fetterman and Mamdani (as different as they are) are both examples of that.
I was responding to a post about TISZA, pointing out that TISZA gives only party members a say and gives them a predetermined list of three candidates. So that's less influence than US Democratic primary voters have.@Mab_813 That's how we got Mrs Clinton, right?
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@Mab_813 That's how we got Mrs Clinton, right?
So what?
In the USA, ordinary voters have more say regarding the choice of candidates than Hungarians have. That was my whole point.
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@drahardja Yes.
And then, once the Democrats are in power, do NOT let them sleep until they prosecute everyone anywhere near the Republican party who aided in Trump's lawbreaking and ban the party itself.
Otherwise, they will just run again in the next election. It's not over until you show them they can't do this again.
@OrionKidder @drahardja Exactly. Follow-through is essential. Even better: make sure the Democrats are new ones, and/or DSA. With few exceptions the old ones have failed so badly they shouldn't be let anywhere near the levers of power; their hunger for the corporate teat, and ingrained tendency to appeasement, runs far too deep.
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@drahardja Yes.
And then, once the Democrats are in power, do NOT let them sleep until they prosecute everyone anywhere near the Republican party who aided in Trump's lawbreaking and ban the party itself.
Otherwise, they will just run again in the next election. It's not over until you show them they can't do this again.
@OrionKidder @drahardja Have you noticed that Trump promised to prosecute a lot of Democrats going to back to Hillary "You'd be in jail" Clinton in 2016, and did not do it?
The Democrats might go after Trump and his family - they are outsiders and need to be punished for trespassing in the political club - but other club member Republicans are off limits just like club member Democrats were.
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People minimizing Orbán’s defeat in #Hungary through voting, and claiming that the same can’t be done to Donald Trump: Remember that Orbán was in power for SIXTEEN YEARS, that is, 2.5× LONGER than Trump. He had more than twice the time Trump has had to intimidate, corrupt, and destroy Hungary’s systems of voting. And yet, voting unseated him.
PLEASE do not preemptively give up on voting. Voting still works in the US, and it is quite likely that our voting infrastructure will far outlive Trump and his destructive party.
Authoritarians rely on a perceived popular mandate to continue their abuse. Voting can decisively deny them that mandate. Do not give up prematurely.
VOTE. VOTE. VOTE.
Peter Magyar is a genocidal Zionist. This is not a great accomplishment. Replacing a right-winger with a right-winger will only lead us farther down the road to fascism. Which is exactly what happened when we replaced Trump with a rightwing racist Dixiecrat who was in the Ku Klux Klan and who mass murdered poor people in America with his horrific economic policy and then funded and armed the worst genocide any of us have ever seen.
Voting has progressively made things absolutely worse with each new asshole we elect.
Burn it all down
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@drahardja Voting would work in the US with an audit trail, requirement to count mail-in ballots, paper ballots instead of electronic, and giving everyone back their right to vote. Everyone, which is to say, including citizens with a felony conviction.
And ranked choice and ONLY publicly funded elections with limits on how much you can donate, ending SuperPacs and billionaires buying our politicians
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@Dialectician @drahardja A complementary strategy could involve strengthening international legal frameworks to hold transnational corporations accountable, limiting their ability to exploit regulatory arbitrage between nations.
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