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You had a choice OP
Instead you chose secret option d. Make 'both sides equally bad' memes to justify the acceptance of fascism.
Always vote against the fascist. Or revolt.
Who took away our option to vote to make things better?
Oh yeah, the consumerist scumbags who kept voting against Bernie in the primaries.
If they're mad now, I'm happy. I would've been mad at either outcome, but now the people who took away the good option can be upset too.
Start running better candidates, guys! It's not that hard if you're not a greedy scumbag piece of shit or a useful idiot!
(it turns out, neo-liberals are greedy scumbag pieces of shit)
The economic system in the US guarantees fascism, the rules are made up and votes are don't matter.
I didn't vote because I'm not American. They should revolt that is the only answer.
I think the Democratic Party is more to blame for running a Status Quo candidate when there's so much dissatisfaction with the state of things. When people are angry, the guy who blows up the system is more appealing than the person trying to maintain it. You gotta actually promise to overhaul things, that's how Obama won.
Why do people keep smugly citing this as the third option when there are a million better options before outright rebellion?
As if any rights or liberties we've won as a working class have ever come from anything other than violent opposition and disruption.
Revolution is the only option for long-term gains, rather than short-term concessions. As long as the bourgeoisie controls the state, they will use it to wind back any concessions they give out temporarily.
Sure, but you don't get to revolution without many smaller escalations
Libs harp on that word because it sounds rightly ridiculous to an american, but say 'armed protest' and suddenly it sounds a lot more realistic.
Revolution requires organizing, and that's indeed a long and drawn out process. However, armed protest implies disorganization and loose aims, not the direct goal of overthrowing and replacing the bourgeois state with a proletarian one.
All 3 points are wrong. 1 There is no status quo, they have demonstrably both gone further right. Which brings me to 2 2 There is only fascism and fascism-light. Genocide Joe also built the wall, deported massively more people:
Bombed civilians in Yemen and displaced half a million people there for his genocidal proxy.
And many mor scummy thing.
3 They will never have a revolution, only placate Trump and move even further to the right to win back some votes.
And people will take it, americans are pacified and harmless, some lame protests are not 'revolution'.
Gullible AF as shown by the massive upvotes you get from the many libs here.
They will all be hearded back into the status quo sytem by Bernie or AOC the new sheepdog puppy in training to prevent revolution or a valid 3rd party.
Sad that even a non-american as yourself, not confined to thinking inside the box can be this wrong.
The other side of the uniparty thinks like you and is refusing to admit their wrongs, how bad do you have to be to not be an alternative to fascists? All of them get what they deserve.