This is why you see so many many many "we can't vote our way out of this" posts online. They know that sentiment will depress turnout. Turnout that will get the people paying them kicked out of power.
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Hungarian voters were smart on an individual level, throwing their support behind Magyar over how they might have traditionally voted, but there was an institutional element to it as well: it took most of the other parties dropping out of contention in order to clear the decks and avoid vote-splitting, which was a brave and principled thing for them to do.
To put this in American terms: They teamed up to elect Mitt Romney to defeat Donald Trump, something our left would never do.
American liberals really hate any form of materialist analysis, huh?
Yeah sure buddy. "The left" don't like genocidal fascists that will kill thousands. But they should vote for your genocidal fascist, so you can be at brunch instead of demonstrating right?
People like this never cared about anything other than their little game of blue vs. red.
That's a whole lot of words to say that you specifically prefer Trump - and by extension explicit fascism - over not-Fascism.
Which is. You know. A political position you share with all other fascists.
Sure mate. Whatever makes you sleep at night.
Thre typical game of "'the left' doesn't like our genocidal fascists so they are fascists because they prefer the other fascist by that." Is a typical idiocy of liberalism.
What a strange thing to say.
Anyway, I think this is a good opportunity to draw attention to the fact that @revolutionairyfox here entered this conversation by complaining-about-other-people-lacking-materialist-analysis.
And yet, here Fox is. Pontificating around the fact that they apparently believe that the policies of Trump and Harris were literally indistinguishable. There is, of course, no way to defend a-position-that-stupid using materialist analysis. But it feels true to Fox. Their position has a truthiness to it, that allows it to transcend actual material reality.
I suppose otherwise, Fox might be forced to recon with the enormity of what they and their strasserite cohorts have done. With the catastrophic scale of evil they have enabled and tacitly endorsed. Literally hundreds of thousands of children dead, mostly in Africa and South Asia, as a direct consequence of the monomaniacal stupidity of Fox and their movement. Fascism is ascendant, because of what they have done.
I understand why Fox has to lie to themselves to sleep at night. Why Fox feels the need to scream their affirmations at others - don't you see don't you see? It's not my fault it can't be my fault! - to drown out the sound of their own doubts. I understand entirely why Fox feels the need to Deny objective reality, and instead Attack anyone who ever whispers of such a thing where Fox can hear, Reversing Victim and Offender in order to preserve Fox's ego from the enormity of their cruelty.
I understand Fox. Please do not mistake my understanding for forgiveness, or indeed anything of the kind.
I understand Fox. And familiarity breeds contempt.
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Fuck off Syrupean.
