The concept of a rotating villain is so funny to me. The best example is the U.S. House of Representatives where one Democrat sacrifices themselves to vote in line with the Republican party, so that all other Democrats can claim they were trying their best to do the right thing, yet in reality are just as complicit. That one Democrat always changes (rotates) so that the blame is spread equally and no particular Democratic representative makes their hands too dirty.
The latest instance of this happening was the House's resolution to stop Trump's war with Iran, where 213 voted to stop it and 214 voted to continue the war. One Democrat, Jared Golden, voted to let Trump keep waging the war. He was today's rotating villain, yet will soon vanish from the spotlight when it's his colleagues' turn to be evil.
It's a genius strategy and doesn't really work the other way around! You can't really have a rotating hero, as your corporate sponsors will simply stop funding you if you pull stunts like this, yet in a two-party state, the people in your voting district are forced to keep electing you, after all, there's no alternative except for the planned opposition.
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in reply to Erik Uden 🚩 • • •the #democrats fucking suck
but remember: we're stuck in 2 party because we are a shitty #FPTP voting system
3rd party in our system divides the left #vote and helps #MAGA win
(we can fix that with ranked choice voting... that's a whole other post)
so we are stuck with one way forward:
take over the democrats
how?
we have #primaries coming up and this is your chance to replace your spineless #democrat turd rep with a real leftist
mob the primaries
what did #mamdani teach us?