Luckily, the ratchet effect is a mechanical analogy, and not actually relevant to politics.
Democrats managed to get a lot of rights recognized for LGBTQ people, despite heavy republican opposition. I’m old enough to remember hearing about the first federally recognized gay marriage, and the end of don’t ask, don’t tell.
Democrats managed to pass a healthcare plan (abeit a shitty one) despite heavy republicans opposition, and internal politicking by other “just barely” Democrats.
Democrats managed to balance the budget, despite heavy republican opposition.
The ratchet effect is a cute analogy, but it’s not a real thing that is actually taking place. If you want the party to move further left, then you need to vote in primaries, and support further left candidates by talking about them, calling for them, and advocating for them. If your candidate wins, great, but if they don’t, recognize that you need to prevent whatever christofascist shitbag Republicans are running from touching that office.
What happened to moving things in the right direction? One said is the greater evil, it moves things to the right. The other is the lesser evil. It resists movement to the left. Both are evil. Why does the existence of a greater evil blind you to the evils of the lesser? Why is it everytime with you people the immediate response is “Oh so you think both sides are equal?” No. But both sides ARE evil. Stop supporting evil for fucks sake.
Luckily, the ratchet effect is a mechanical analogy, and not actually relevant to politics.
Democrats managed to get a lot of rights recognized for LGBTQ people, despite heavy republican opposition. I’m old enough to remember hearing about the first federally recognized gay marriage, and the end of don’t ask, don’t tell.
Democrats managed to pass a healthcare plan (abeit a shitty one) despite heavy republicans opposition, and internal politicking by other “just barely” Democrats.
Democrats managed to balance the budget, despite heavy republican opposition.
The ratchet effect is a cute analogy, but it’s not a real thing that is actually taking place. If you want the party to move further left, then you need to vote in primaries, and support further left candidates by talking about them, calling for them, and advocating for them. If your candidate wins, great, but if they don’t, recognize that you need to prevent whatever christofascist shitbag Republicans are running from touching that office.
Democrats did a genocide. They don’t give a fuck about human rights. Lgbt rights were fought for by lgbt people and their allies. Not democrats.
They aided a genocide while the current admin is still aiding said genocide and starting another, both are bad but one is certainly worse
I KNOW.
What happened to moving things in the right direction? One said is the greater evil, it moves things to the right. The other is the lesser evil. It resists movement to the left. Both are evil. Why does the existence of a greater evil blind you to the evils of the lesser? Why is it everytime with you people the immediate response is “Oh so you think both sides are equal?” No. But both sides ARE evil. Stop supporting evil for fucks sake.
Any chance you wanna source those genocide claims?
Liberal scratched
Gotcha, so no. Disregarded.