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Peter T's avatar

I dunno, this feels like more false equivalence to me. Competence and incompetence are relative. I was less than thrilled with what happened in Afghanistan. However, there are things that strike me as much *much* worse. Say, trying to overthrow elections.

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David Eggleston's avatar

Because you’re following this stuff. Normal people see that Republicans screwed the pooch, so they voted Democratic. Now they’re seeing Democrats screw crap up, and they’re going to vote Republican. Until enough hacked off Republicans and Democrats can get past the talking points and band together against the militant extremes, we’re up a creek.

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Peter T's avatar

Fair enough. I thought your initial comment was a statement about what actually *is*, not about perception. Per the article, yes, there's a big problem when jaywalking and murder are considered equivalent by a large chunk of voters.

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David Eggleston's avatar

I voted for Biden, and I’d do so again if the Republicans renominate Trump or one of his homunculi. He’s handled a bad hand significantly better than Cheeto Jesus, but that’s a pretty low bar. I’ve been redistricted into a safe Democratic seat with an absolutely reprehensible congressman, and the Republicans are choosing between four Trumpist neo-white supremacists to run against him, so I’ll probably be staying home in November.

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Peter T's avatar

I can certainly empathize with the choice between bad and completely untenable. Indeed, it seems the vast majority of commenters here feel the same way.

It's frustrating that with the super low bar set by the GOP, the Dems keep tripping over it. Further, much of it seems to be self inflicted.

But, as you imply, if we have to choose between some clumsy policy moves (or tolerating stupidity from the woke-ist left) vs authoritarian wannabes, it's not a hard choice.

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