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Trump Takes Lead in 538 Simulations
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I was a big Bernie fan :( you make some great points though. The big problem I see is it’s not just a difference of ideology, you literally have one candidate calling himself a day 1 dictator and shitting on poor and brown people and women, and the other not doing that. How can you go for ketchup steak Hitler? I guess if the Old Testament gives you a boner for all the slaves and genocide and stuff, then that’s your answer.
I'm not just defending them because that's where I came from, I'm not defending them at all honestly.
Just explaining the "why". If you just write them off as evil idiots, it's harder to prevent it next time. We need to understand "why" because the fight against facism is literally never over. Might be 5 years, might be 50, but they'll be back.
Because they think both parties are the same, and they see Trump's comments as "telling it like it is".
When you think both will be dictators "at least he admits it" could be a positive.
They believe all the rightwing bullshit about what Kamala will do despite Biden not already doing it. From that perspective they have the choice of two evils and "the lesser of two evils" for them is the one that's "honest" about being a dictator and says he agrees on social issues, not even getting into SC seats.
Every excuse for voting R for them tho disappears if we run a good candidate. So the most extreme will stay home and the moderate ones will vote D.
That's how we win votes from Republicans, if we try to meet them in the middle with conservative policy, it just legitimizes the conservative party. Those voters don't want a negotiator.
Obama showed us the path relatively recently, it's just the money behind the party would rather trump wins. Someday we're going to have to re-evaluate why the people running the DNC are just whoever gets the most donations from corporations and billionaires and put someone that knows how to win elections in leadership