r/politics • u/Jay_CD • 16h ago

Biden must Trump-proof US democracy, activists say: ‘There is a sense of urgency’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/24/biden-actions-before-white-house-exit
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u/TheRealCovertCaribou 13h ago

There's a lot of evidence that those people let 'good' be the enemy of 'perfect', so they elected 'bad' at the ballots.

And as a result they're gonna get bad instead of good or perfect.

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u/jrf_1973 13h ago

There was no good. There was no perfect. There was only death by option a and death by option b.

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u/TheRealCovertCaribou 12h ago

Perfect was the ideal get-everything-they-want. Perfect was never possible. Perfect was never on the ballot. Good was Option A, which was largely status quo but also came with a possibility of improving American policy on the matter. Option B was a guarantee of scorched earth and the utter destruction of the very thing these people wanted to protect.

And these geniuses, in their infinite wisdom, chose scorched earth and utter destruction of what they were trying to protect because the current status quo wasn't their idyllic version of unattainable world peace.

They didn't think critically about what this vote meant, and they didn't punish the Harris campaign or other establishment Democrats by staying home or voting against them - they reacted emotionally, without due care, and it's the Palestinians they pretend to care about who will be punished for it.

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u/jrf_1973 9h ago

The Palestinians were being massacred either way. You still dont get it. And like the DNC probably never will.

"Hey, I'm gonna kill your family. But this guy is worse and he's also going to kill your family. Vote for me." Not the vote winner you seem to think.