Maybe if they ran on popular policies like ending interventionist foreign policy, reforming the migration system to allow more legal pathways, ending the police terror of communities of color, and codifying female bodily autonomy into law, it wouldn’t be a coin flip every 4 years. But they don’t.

Instead, they chase after the mythical center that moves further right every year. If it makes you feel productive to vote for that, then by all means.

I’m just surprised that this community thinks the woman who just dropped her progressive positions on weed, immigration, criminal justice reform, and fracking is going to do anything meaningfully progressive in the face of escalating wars and a few years before irreversible ecological collapse.

Or was the foot in the door Joe Biden, the guy who was against integrated bussing in the 80s?

Or was it Obama, the man who was against gay marriage in 2008 and then bombed and deported more people than Bush?

How many more times should I “fall in line” before I’m allowed to be upset that widely popular issues like maternity leave, abortion rights, vacation guarantees, a higher minimum wage, etc are ignored?

Can we not have a discussion about how fucked US foreign policy without devolving into “orange man bad?” Things simply are not that binary.

Personally, I would find it hard to vote for anyone who supports the US military industrial complex because all I’ll be able to remember is my buddy who lost eleven cousins in a single night in Raffa.

“Why would america let this happen?” is all he could say in his broken English and I’ll never forget his wailing. Or the children fleeing the war in Syria whom I met in refugee camps in Greece-- a war that was the inevitable result of these decades of neoliberal, reactionary foreign policy.