• hydrospanner@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    While I do agree with you, nearly completely, one nit that I would pick is the implication that “the aggrieved right”, and the emboldening of same are a point of concern to be avoided.

    At this point, I feel that the right, and the actions and positions they’ve taken, have removed them markedly from the realm of a worthy and respectable political bloc, even if one I rarely agree with, and moved them squarely into the realm of radical and destabilizing faction that pushes for goals which can and will permanently destroy the foundations of the democracy I stand for as an essential underpinning of personal liberty.

    At that point, they deserve to be aggrieved, and I see pissing them off as a necessary by-product of preserving democracy.

    They’ve chosen to place themselves at odds with democratic rule, not the other way around.

    That being said, however, I feel it would be a bigger win for everyone if Trump loses the election while appearing on ballots than if he’s absent from ballots in battleground states.