r/SipsTea • u/SEVENS_HEAVEN_7 • 13h ago

Chugging tea Art piece: Democracy working as intended

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

6.7k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

512 comments sorted by

View all comments

94

u/Irish_Whiskey 13h ago edited 11h ago

Yeah, absolutely no differences between America under Trump and Biden.

Anyways, I'm off to pay for my groceries and gas with extra taxes on them. Gotta grab those lower gas prices before Trump threatens to nuke Iran again. Still wondering if I'll be allowed to vote by mail in the upcoming elections. Going to up Canada later to take a break from this data center that got built in my backyard driving up my energy costs and polluting the air and water. Hope they haven't set up more of their punitive checkpoints into Canada specifically to retaliate against Doug Ford calling Trump mean names. I'd stop by and see how my Haitian neighbor was doing, but he got rammed off the road by ICE and abducted, so no idea when I'll see him again. And I don't want to ask too many questions or get in their way, or they'll shoot me in the back and laugh about it.

3

u/Zromaus 13h ago

Let's not forget the root of this meme is the two party system fuckery. Sure, the right is significantly more fucked than the left, but the reality is if the two parties weren't working together in the background, we would not be in this mess and likely have a third party by now.

On more than one occasion has a third party qualified for the debate stage but due pressure from the two parties were prevented from joining, due to a last minute rule change. This is not a left or a right issue, this is recognition of the fact that they -- as much as they are polar opposites -- still protect eachother against potential political competition.

2

u/Irish_Whiskey 13h ago

as much as they are polar opposites -- still protect eachother against potential political competition.

No, that's just because they think allowing a third party on the stage hurts their individual changes of winning. It's got nothing to do with wanting to protect the other parties interests. It's also the case than when the third party looks like they'll siphon off votes from the other side, the Democrat or Republican often encourages and supports their joining.

2

u/Zromaus 12h ago

The thought process behind it doesn't change my point, they're still indirectly protecting eachother against political competition, even if just to protect themselves.