A progressive who stays home on Election Day — or backs Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, or No Labels — is voting for Donald Trump.

"Progressives should not make the same mistake that Ernst Thälmann made in 1932. The leader of the German Communist Party, Thälmann saw mainstream liberals as his enemies, and so the center and left never joined forces against the Nazis. Thälmann famously said that ‘some Nazi trees must not be allowed to overshadow a forest’ of social democrats, whom he sneeringly called ‘social fascists.’

After Adolf Hitler gained power in 1933, Thälmann was arrested. He was shot on Hitler’s orders in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944."

  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
    141·
    3 months ago

    Why do you think no one is blaming people that vote for him? Absolutely no one has ever said anything like that.

    • iAmTheTot
      412·
      3 months ago

      I did not mean to imply that no one is. But those who did not vote for him are not responsible for him winning, and should carry no blame.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
        113·
        3 months ago

        I can’t talk to you anymore, I’m sorry but you refuse to learn. People like you helped get us in this mess 8 years ago.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
        44·
        3 months ago

        am tired of people blaming voters who didn’t vote for the fascist being blamed for the fascist winning. Blame those who actually voted for the fascist.

        I did not mean to imply that no one is.

        Textbook definition of bad faith arguments.