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To anyone who didn’t vote last year because they didn’t like the democrats position to a 100%:
I hope you are happy with what you have enabled. You must feel quite clever right now❤️
I hate the establishment Dems, neo-liberals suck. But I still voted for them because the actual Fascists and Nazis were unconscionable.
It's like a choice between getting a cavity and getting curb stomped.
It's more like a choice between voting for Nazi Germany or voting for Vichy France
Exactly.
Having two federal parties with the Dems and Republicans being the only feasible options sounds antidemocratic. A true democracy would be a bit more.. representative.
I would adore having a half dozen political parties along the spectrum to vote for. I wouldn't vote for anything less than mild progressivism but still.
Our voting system is fucked is the problem.
You should post this on x.com or something. Imagine thinking anyone on this site didn't vote.
You would be quite surprised by the amount of Americans on here who didn't vote. I have come across quite a lot
"voting is wrong" was an incredibly popular position on lemmy
people conflated "voting won't save us" with "voting won't do anything". If voting was useless they wouldn't try so hard to stop people from doing it. But also, voting one day a year and shrugging your shoulders 364 days and year cause "I voted" wasn't enough.
There's entire groups on Lemmy where you get banned if you support either US party
Oh, they sure AF do. Just talked to one of these dipsticks in person recently. They feel very clever and smug and look forward to accelerating shit into some kind of Marxist utopia.
And of course, the 'net is lousy with these types.
It's all so dumb.
200 NGOs Oppose Biden’s Historic Expansion of ICE Detention System: "Detention should not be about politics."
ICE records show Biden admin plans could give Trump a head start on deportations
President Biden Signs Anti-Immigrant Spending Bill Reaching Trump-Era Highs
Biden’s Emergency Funding Proposal Seeks $14 Billion for Immigration System From Congress
Tom Homan - Border Czar was originally appointed by Obama
Keep in mind, these democrat moves to bolster ICE were happening while the right was blatantly telegraphing their moves to immediately weaponize ICE once they took power. Project 2025 came out and promised to use ICE to plunder and abuse Americans. Biden and team then spent the next 4 years not only failing to prepare for Trump, but preemptively strengthening the mechanisms Trump would eventually use to carry out project 2025. The democrats are controlled opposition.
Sure, maybe we wouldnt be seeing this intense of immigration enforcement if Kamala were in charge, but if she were, she'd be working behind the scenes to ensure the right had all the tools they needed when the time was right.
The democrats are controlled opposition and the American electoral system is kabuki theater. The fascist descent is the only logical conclusion to the American political experiment- which was predicated on the wholesale genocide of Native American Indians and quickly pivoted to enslaving an entire continent.
You realize what the only logical conclusion to your "pragmatic liberal utilitarianism" is, right? I give it 4 years before youre chiding leftists for not voting for dem candidate Ted Cruz as he campaigns against republican candidate Mecha Hitler. Youll still see nothing wrong with that. You will sell out the victims of American Imperialism to buy yourself 4 more years of political waffling - just as you did with Palestinians.
Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. If they had stopped money to ICE it would have been all over the airwaves. “Dems soft on immigration”.
1 billionaire owns like 70% of the radio across the country, doesn't matter what you say the right's propaganda machine will always be on target.
Wouldn't be hard to fight back if a broken immigration system wasn't a bipartisan effort to encourage illegal immigration and let farmers take advantage of workers.
And if you've reached a point in your political experiment where the only viable "opposition" party is obligated to massively fund fascist brownshirts in order to stay relevant, your experiment has lost legitimacy and must be dismantled.
BuT TeH GeNoCiDe D:
Great job, now we have genocide AND this bullshit. Thank you so much for saving Palestine! You fucking did it, I guess.
Trump: Yes to Genocide
Harris: I see you, I hear you, but also Yes to Genocide
I voted for Harris because obviously but also I 100% put the blame where it belongs: the DNC.
The DNC did the enabling. They had plenty of opportunity to run a viable candidate or run a stronger campaign with the candidate they settled for and did neither.
Still blaming Bernie for you picking unelectable candidates.
yup...can run the numbers, he won the popular vote. the "palestine or nothing" people are a drop in the bucket
the overwhelming majority of the country doesn't have the privilege of caring about people outside their immediate bubble...they're too busy living paycheck to paycheck
don't run on "nothing will fundamentally change" if you want americans to vote for you, simple as. maybe also don't run fucking republicans endorsements during the DNC...
i'm honestly not sure what's worse, if establishment dems are largely just controlled opposition or if they're really just this incompetent
100%. “Everything’s fine, stop complaining” wasn’t a good platform in 2016. Or 2020. Or 2024.
Donald walked through a door that liberal democrats opened.
TWICE.
Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 and 2020 and still was below 50% in 2024 AND his policies never got support from a majority ever when presented without a name.
There has never been a majority who has liked anything he had to offer.
This was a propaganda war from racist wealthy assholes who bought out a ton of the companies controlling the media landscape. They exploited bullshit election rules and lied and bribed and extorted to suppress resistance, all just so they could be assholes in public without being called in it.
So he’s incredibly unpopular.
And he’s beat democrats two out of the last thee tries.
Do. The. Math.
they wanted to use the threat of fascism to earn free votes, even though they tried that in virginia in 2021 and it failed miserably.
a lot of it comes down to that they're more convinced by their consultants what works than by the evidence of what works. and their consultants all come from a class of people who make more money the closer an election is to 50/50
Hey shitbird. ♥️
Encouraging those people to rise up and act:
✅ Helpful!
Shaming and mocking people for choosing their conscience instead of understanding game theory, well over a year ago:
❌ Being a shitbird
Quit trying to divide the left. At this point, I'm going to have to assume you're a Republican if you're still doing this shit a year after the election.
People who opposed the monster won't feel offended by that. Normies won't be here to see it.
And some of these hardline ultrapurists has to be shamed into doing the right thing
Liberals are the Center and the Democratic party is Center/Near Right.