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[–] fubo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The Democrats have been a solidly center-right party for decades. JFK wasn't a leftist! Today, the party has a small left wing, the DSA, represented by people like AOC; but the mainstream of the party remains solidly right-of-center. Democrats support big business, private land ownership, free trade, wage labor, and the rest of the center-right consensus.

The Republicans, however, drifted from "a little bit right of the Democrats" to "for-real fascist" over the course of the Reagan, Bush, Cheney¹, and Trump administrations. Today, the leader of the Republicans is a Hitler fan.

So, as usual, the first-past-the-post voting system sucks utter ass ... but Americans today have a choice between a center-right president and a Nazi president.


¹ Yes, the Cheney administration. Nobody believes Bush Jr. was actually calling the shots.

[–] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm banking all my hope on Harris winning, and then Dems either take the House and hold onto the Senate, or more likely Dems retake the Senate in 2026 and also keep the House then.

Once that happens, they can drop the filibuster, and then pass the 127 DC States plan, which would allow them to pass constitutional amendments to fix this once and for all, https://www.vox.com/2020/1/14/21063591/modest-proposal-to-save-american-democracy-pack-the-union-harvard-law-review

Edit: Worth nothing that the reason for the Dems shift to the right is due to the how the Electoral College works, and which would require a constitutional amendment to abolish.

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