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You're partly right.
The only power we have now is local, unless you're a billionaire or willing to commit a terrorist act, both of which do not apply to me. You can always do good with your own two hands, but we can look at the last two decades and conclude correctly and definitively that voting for either major party is throwing your vote away, at least if you're a wage earner.
The thing is, fascism's already here for most. Abortion is criminalized in part of the country and will soon be criminalized in most of it, and it happened with Democrats in power. A vast majority of Americans have to work 2-3 jobs to survive now, and it happened while Democrats were in charge. If you have a major injury or illness, you will be bankrupted, and that remains true no matter who we elect. If you're a person of color, a police officer can kill you at will and there won't be any meaningful blowback to the police system, and not only did it happen under Democrats, Joe Biden mocked the defund movement in a SOTU speech.
It seems most people want to give credit to Democrats for what they say. I'm giving them credit for what they actually do.
If you don't think those things will get substantially worse, and substantially faster under Trump, the you have played yourself
Does it not bother you that they all happened and got worse under Democrats?
Of course it does. Where did I ever imply it didn't? But just because the dems suck, doesn't mean the GOP isn't far worse, especially the Trump flavor. There are states I can be legally sterilized because I have an X as my gender marker on my ID. That's the kind of shit the trumpers want to do federally. At least with Harris there is a chance for the people to pressure her to do the right thing. With trump that is impossible