This basically describes every Democrat in the USA except Bernie, AOC, and a few others.

Dear Marcy Kaptur, I'm not voting for you, I'm voting against the GOP.

• have their cake,
• eat it,
• and get paid for that,

are IMHO worse than those that voted for Trump because they KNEW the results and were happy to throw people ubder the bus for their own smugness and ego.

• Cuz at least the #Christofascists have the honesty to out themselves as #fascists and not claim "moral high ground" for not voting!

Perfection is only ever something to strive for, not something to expect.

Except in this metaphor the snake is sucking its own dick

"i don't want the lesser evil, i want good"

every political choice is between evil and lesser evil

all times past, now, forever more

if a candidate is angelic, smearmongering gossips do their work and in the popular imagination the good candidate is now the lesser evil

the problem is not choosing between evil and lesser evil

the problem is your faulty cognition about what is really going on

you *vote*

you *iterate*

you *sustain*

et voila:

you get good

Believe a more subtle point is also demonstrated in Hungary.

That the perfect is the enemy of the good.

The victorious coalition is not liberal. It is a conglomerate of 'everyone but the fascists.'

The important thing was for them to put down their differences, show up and vote the fascists out.

Only now, with democracy restored, can they move forward.

but if it's true that voting works, that means i can't just whine endlessly and impotently online, to do the fascists' work for them and argue for helplessness and inaction on a potent tool against them, and thus provide a rationale for accepting their abuse

but surely my cynical defeatist whining will fix things?

(/s)

"Imagine. To peer across the world and know the enemy's secrets. To place our thoughts into the minds of your leaders. Make your teachers teach the true version of history, your soldiers attack on our command. We'll be everywhere at once, more powerful than a whisper, invading your dreams, thinking your thoughts for you while you sleep. We will change you… all of you from the inside. We will turn you into us. And the best part? You won't even know it's happening"

This is not the full speech, just some more data-points in a disturbing picture that suggests American politics in now thoroughly compromised by its traditional geostrategic adversaries. The Cold War never really ended...it just got colder.

oh all the kremlin goons scrammed on sunday, and won't be back. hopefully forever