I have a close friend that I’ve known 20 years who became obsessed with right-wing politics. even though I’m liberal, I don’t make it my entire personality and life. But anyway… I was talking to him this morning casually like friends do.
Me: “Hey man. Do you have off today for MLK day?” Friend: “No, I have to work today.” Me: “Damn, sorry to hear. I have off today since it’s a company holiday.” Friend: “Yeah, I work for a living. Guess that’s the difference me and people who live in an ivory tower.” Me: “Uhh I work for a living too. Idk why you’re acting like I don’t?” Friend: “I didn’t mean you specifically. But you’re off and I’m not so it shows that you get to relax at least. You should be able to handle the truth lol. There’s no shame in admitting that I’m a harder worker than everyone else. you shouldn’t be so sensitive”
Honestly, he’s not unique, either. I’ve met so many people who are conservative, obsessed with right-wing stuff, and they’re all like this. They act like they’re special and the whole world is lazy, “no one wants to work anymore” attitude.
It seems you, personally, are unaware of the fact that the word “you” can also mean “a person” or “an individual”.
The Democratic party is not running itself as “you support Biden or you’re out”. There is plenty of dissent within the party itself, which is healthy IMO. You can vote Democrat without necessarily supporting Biden himself, unlike Trump and the Republican party. The right is pushing fascism. Straight up. This is not a hypothetical or hyperbolic sentiment.
Do I like and support the two party system? Absolutely not. I have lots of disagreements with many things that the Democrats do. But that pales in comparison to the right.
The democrats are pushing the conditions to allow for fascism, and losing on purpose to the republicans because any kind of economic policy that helps the working class hurts the donor class so they pretend to support the working class with “progressive” policy and then fail to actually pass it, pretending it’s the republicans fault when in reality there’s always a patsy in their own party to tank any kind of meaningful legislation. And the vote blue no matter who crowds response to this is vote harder. yeah nope, that doesn’t fucking work.
You keep going back to the circular logic of “well the dems are all we have.” Great, enjoy fascism, because the dems as they currently exist are completely spineless and incapable of doing anything about it.