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This is great. Needs a dash of misogyny though.
The Democrats used to promise real change and progress, but they've only proven themselves to be the party of stagnation in recent memory. Nowadays they don't even try to inspire their base, but rather scare them into submission with the threat of Trumpism.
Sure it's better than the rapid decline into chaos that the order party is trending towards but this pattern of "a couple careful steps forward then a dozen strides sprinting backwards" isn't working for Americans. Many of us have lost faith in the system because the system doesn't work for us. What's worse is that when we get a candidate who speaks to us, the Democratic establishment shuts them down with more efficacy than they ever seem to direct towards any of the Right's regressive politics.
While I still fall in line and vote for somebody who I am not excited or inspired by in a seemingly futile effort to hold the line, many others have given up because their struggles aren't being addressed or even acknowledged. You can yell at them and criticize them until you're blue in the face but I can guarantee you they're either so tuned out that they'll never hear it or so dug into their own political ideals that they won't receive it.
If you want their vote, you're going to have to earn it.
If you want their vote, you’re going to have to earn it.
"The Dems need to change" and "Allowing fascism is not okay" are not mutually exclusive positions, and I hold to both.
And yet, Everytime I see someone talking about the Dems needing to change I see you playing goalkeeper. What's up with that I wonder aloud for no reason?
He's not saying Democrats shouldn't change, just acknowledging that this election result is not 100% on them
It's 100% on them. They lost. That's how democracy works. They didn't allow a real primary. Their candidate sucked. Their messaging sucked. They ended up with the biggest loss in decades, losing all three branches of government and the popular vote. This is a failure on every level and they don't get to blame voters.
No.
If you must vote and vote for the "correct" party then you don't have a democracy. Either we exercised our democratic responsibilities this year or we lost our democracy a decade ago and we're just now finding out about it.
Either way, lesser evil voting is not a democratic ideal.
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A decent "party" would dispel "ignorance" rather than thriving on it.
That's completely within the bounds of reason.
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People are busy with more important things than social media, YouTube’s, podcasts, and news.
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People will vote with their communities to retain membership: MAGA, church, the family unit (sometimes).
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it’s not uncommon for 60% of people not to vote.
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Kamala didn’t distance herself from Biden. “They’re isn’t anything that comes to mind” was a coffin nail.
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DEMs don’t sell it well. The story told has to be big enough and potent enough to pull in 1, 2, & 3.
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What is the point of beating this dead horse? It solves nothing.
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2024
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