• taanegl@lemmy.world
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    “oh but why won’t people vote for the democrats?!?!”

    Because they’re fucking pussies. Time to vote for the Black Panther Party. I don’t care if you’re white. I am too.

    Now dawn that black beret and start marching with rifle in hand. We’re going to go form some fucking cooperatives!

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    Democratic party is the party of status quo.

    Conservative party is the party of destruction/cancer.

    The people want a party of progress.

    The people will never get what they want with these two parties in charge of everything.

    Just a sad fact. Things will get worse before they get better.

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    Democratic leaders blearily looked up from their mid-afternoon cocktails on the decks of billionaire’s yachts and said, “They want us to what?”

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    Trump is actively killing democracy. Some Democratic politicians have chosen the most pathetic, inexcusable response possible: bland indifference.

    I’m torn between fear that our government will collapse, and the cynical realization that maybe it deserves to.

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    Unfortunately I think the people need to start fighting first. Neither side can count on their elected officials anymore. One side is just too stupid to realize it yet…

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    So, trumps polling all time low numbers, democrats are polling low numbers.

    I feel like if I release T-Shirts that just say “Everything sucks”, they would be universally popular.

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    Democratic party is owned by capitalists. They will never fight for policy that actually improves living conditions of the working class, and thus their sole ‘popularity’ has to stem from people who think they will fight against fascism (they won’t and they don’t).

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    fight rather than compromise

    Why are there so many stupid people that can vote? Because that is how fascists and authoritarian governments get to grab power.

    History has given us some of the best documented examples of how it can go terribly wrong. Specifically Hitler and how he first destroyed democracy. Every step Trump is taking is the same as Hitler did.

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      Hungary is another good case of how the right got into power and then changed laws to make it extremely unlikely they will ever be unseated.

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    US voters want to fight against the one party state … the Democrat/Republican Party

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      I’m eagerly waiting to see US voters fighting against Republicans, I’m not sure I’ve seen it in my whole adult life

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    Kamala dropped the ball with the presidential campaign. She had no opinion on any issue that majority of voters really cared about. No wonder the entire democratic party gets backlash

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      She should have never been the candidate. Biden put her in an unwinnable position. The old geezer’s ego cost America it’s democracy.

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        You don’t think it’s the other way around? You don’t think it was more her pushing to be their candidate than Biden pushing her? Cuz I don’t believe for a second Biden pushed her into that. That was always her ambition.

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          By him leaving it so late, there was really no other practical option. That’s 100% on Biden and the milquetoast establishment dems around him.

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            I have a very different read on the situation. I think what you saw with a split between Harris and Biden was the split in the Democratic Party. Harris and the people supporting her very much seemed like the Hillary Clinton wing of the party. They basically ran the same campaign she did. They appealed as hard as they could to conservatives. They cozied up heavily to billionaire Tech donors. They tried to push Progressive Politics As far aside as humanly possible. They were against people like Lena Khan. On the other hand I think the people surrounding Biden if not so much him himself, were the more Progressive wing of the party. A lot of the mechanisms put in by Biden’s agreements with Bernie Sanders were that part of the party that was forced out by Harris.

            Edit: Also I would point out there was plenty of time to run a primary. That fiction that there wasn’t enough time is just what the party said so they could put their hand chosen candidate in.

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    Man I wish they’d get rid of this phony nerd routine this guy pulls with his idiotic rolled up sleeves and over the top presentation. Theres plenty of real data nerds out there who’d do a better job.

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      Third party votes haven’t been relevant since Ross Perot. They are brought up as a distraction by failing Democratic candidates.