I still can't believe he got away with this. The US is truly fucked.
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What is this mental gymnastic nonsense? Elections are contests that absolutely do have winners and losers. You're also claiming in your first sentence that "elections aren't a sporting event" but then call the people "athletes"
That user is correct that the DNC shares all the blame with the RNC and Trump for what we're now experiencing. They've demonstrated election after election that they're unwilling to govern this country correctly and do what needs to be done to fix the mess we've been falling into for decades. It's always complete inaction, excuses, or half-measures that do little more than generate good PR. If they had accomplished anything truly meaningful in all this time, half the voting population wouldn't be looking to a child rapist as "the better option."
Sorry, I stopped reading where you "both sides".
You're not going to stop fascism by attacking those that are opposing it.
American culture has become rotten. It's all about greed and laziness. The real winner of the last election was laziness. More people didn't vote than voted for either candidate. Then there was those that voted for a fascist under the false belief they would somehow share in the profit from being cruel to others. Over 2/3 of Americans were either hoping to profit from cruelty or were too lazy to prevent it.
I'm not American and I'll tell you that the Democratic party is a completely normal political party in a democratic system. All parties in democratic countries are like that. The reason you hate them is because deep down you just hate democracy.
Americans are incapable of any kind of introspection, so you just look for someone to blame rather than recognize how rotten American culture is. You're just not the brave freedom loving democratic people that you loudly proclaim to the world you are. You're cowardly, greedy, lazy, and hypocritical people. You'll never improve your country if you just go on looking for scapegoats rather than taking a cold hard look at what America is really all about. The first step is admitting you have a problem and you can't do that.
You ignored the important modifier to the sentence which is, "where the candidate loses".
That is it isn't a sporting event between candidates. It is a sporting event between the people. The candidate isn't the athlete. The candidate is the goal that the people kick their ball into.
Oh okay "politicians are goals that people kick their ball into" therefore it's okay for Democrats to enable the Republican agenda at every turn. Thanks for clarifying things.
It's what people voted for.