Tinidril

Fair, but parliamentary systems are a little bit different.

Really nothing. It has to do with fascism. Neoliberalism is losing to it all around the globe. Only Brazil and Mexico are bucking the trend, and they elected leftists.

Let's just put our heads in the sand and pretend that Democrats didn't lose the entire fucking country. They did everything right, it's just dumb luck.

It's not even just the federal government. Not only did Obama lose the House and the Senate, he also lost the Democrats over a thousand statewide seats. At some point there has to be a come to Jesus moment. If things haven't gotten bad enough now, what will it take?

Not just Obama, but he is a perfect example of the kinds of Democrats that made fascism inevitable.

I don't give a shit about Obama being black. We elected a black president so apparently we were ready for it, and that's great. I blame Obama for selling us out to Wall Street on multiple occasions. I blame him for perfecting Clinton's triangulation politics that replaces substance with flowery rhetoric. I blame Obama for redirecting funds traditionally used for congressional races to his own campaign chests, then blaming the Republican Congress when he couldn't get anything done. Should I go on?

So, you don't have any examples then. Got it.

Americans have had 50 years of "progress" where all the great things Democrats say they do don't seem to help. Technocratic improvements and even material improvements don't even register with people anymore. Voters (regardless of what they might say) want transformative change. Forgiving some student loans is good, but free college is transformative.

Republicans offer transformative change. In the absence of anything on offer from the Democrats, the culture moves right. 50 years later and here we are.

Plenty of parties start with a few percent and then grow.

In a FPTP election system? OK, let's hear it. What are some parties that grew to power under FPTP elections.

I think the last one was probably Bill Clinton?

LOL, wut? Bill Clinton said "The era of big government is over." then proceeded with the largest dismantling of the federal welfare state until maybe now.

What does the left have to do with it?

Meh. We'll see what happens when it threatens their office. A lot of them have already started changing their rhetoric.

This time the Democrats have an actual flesh and blood candidate who actually stands for something. If he wins, will that alter your perspective at all?

American voters suck, just like they have always sucked, just like voters suck everyplace else. That's the field in which the game is played.

Being the lesser of two evils is not a good strategy. The greater evil gets all the attention and therefore enthusiasm. Good vs evil is a whole different dynamic.