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Pulling out that scare tactic again? Instead of spending time earning votes and creating an environment where people would want to vote for him, he resorts to the typical Boogeyman politics.
People like you still won't accept that it's your fucking fault that Trump won in 2016 in the first place, and as a direct result, completely fucked the SCOTUS over for a generation, setting us back decades.
And you're going to do it again. Because the Dems don't tuck you in at night and tell you that they love you.
Hillary and Co 100% gave us trump. Democrats ignoring leftists when we warned you Hillary cannot win. There's a better chance of you and other democrats voting for a Republican than any socialist or communist voting for either right wing POS.
So you're willingly admitting that you deliberately increased the chance of Trump winning by not voting tactically? I know it's a rotten system, but you have to work with what's in front of you. The approach you espouse makes it look like you're actually a right wing saboteur rather than anything left wing.
Ya don't say?1
The Leftist vote is flaky. Trying to appease you is a exercise of futility.
If timed right, the Dems might be able to hold your vote for a single election. But done too early, you'll find some new cause to be polarized by, done too late and you'll have already made your decision and nothing will change it.
And by "you'll find some new cause to be polarized by", I mean conservatives will spoon feed you a new thing to be polarized by. It's so damn predictable and you take the bait every time.
But sure, keep playing stupid games with the general election. You'll be paying with the rest of us when your stupid games hand the reigns over to the fascists. Or we'll spend the next term trying to make things marginally better while you whine that it's not good enough the entire time.
I'm a liberal, and I sure as shit know the only ethical choice is to vote against Trump. People who demand perfection as the alternative to a fascist takeover aren't just virtue signaling but also maliciously stupid.
It's not a "Boogeyman" or a "scare tactic" if it actually happened. Trump did appoint three justices, those justices were significantly more right-wing than the ones they replaced, and as a result they actually did overturn Roe v. Wade and a side swath of other rights and regulations. Maybe keep that very recent history in mind when you hear the same people who warned about it then warning about him trying to end democracy in America now.
As a single father to two girls (ages 8 and 10) Republicans can fuck ALL of the way off. When they didn't call out Mitch McConnell's hypocrisy with Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland vs Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, you lost me for the rest of my life.
The part that really gets my goat on abortion is it only affects those without the means to travel. The rich and well connected (so basically every politician) can just fly to a country that treats its citizens with empathy when their daughter gets pregnant from a rape for an abortion, but they'll look down from their ivory towers and tell MY daughter she somehow asked for it, and should therefore live with the consequences.
@anticolonialist@lemmy.world The choices this next election seem to be Biden or Trump. I can't change who is running, I can only choose who I would pick to win. Who do you plan on voting for?