Dems being weaponized dogshite does not absolve voters who let fascists take over the country! :)
Dems being weaponized dogshite does not absolve voters who let fascists take over the country! :)
Fault is on everyone
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Non-voters and trump voters
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russian propagandists
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"useful idiots" telling people to not vote harris for perceived evil
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democratic leadership for not having a better platform
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Kamala Harris, who just cant stop getting pulled towards cheneys like a magnet
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Joe "I don't wanna quit yet, even tho I'm old as fuck" Biden
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republicans, who just want to destroy democracy
Everyone is at fault
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PROTIP: Dems being spineless, brainless cretins does NOT absolve anyone who said that sitting by and letting fascists take over the country was preferable! And yes, you CAN blame the voters for that!
The voters did not magically come to the 'correct' decision to sit this out by the spirit of democracy whispering in their ear; they did so because they believed that fascism won't be 'that bad' to them, personally! And no amount of blaming Dems for being gutless corporate weasels can change that being an accomplice to deliberately driving fascists deeper into power is not a forgivable offense!
As a Brit I'm not immersed in American politics day to day. My (unqualified) take from a million miles away went:
"Oh, Joe Biden got elected thank god"
"Oh, he's promising to only serve one term, good that's completely sensible"
"Joe's running again? What? Could they not find anyone better? This isn't going to go well at all..."
"(during that debate) Oh well, looks like Trump's going to win.."
"Hey, Kamala looks like she would have won if this had been the plan from the beginning, not a sudden fumble when Biden's brain melted beyond repair on live TV.."
Seems like - from my point of view- the main culprit was hubris on Biden's part ever attempting a second term. And the inexplicable failure of the whole party to not force him out of that self destructive choice. Other candidates besides Kamala likely could have won, just seemed like any Dem candidate would be fatally undermined by starting a late campaign.
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.
Pug its only been a month
Go back to sleep and enjoy the last month of Biden doing fuck all about any of the core problems that Trump is about to expand a thousand times.
This meme even contradicts itself. If its already known there's a limit to reason, why didn't the Democrats utilize this like the Republicans did? Obama lied about a ton of crap to get votes and everyone was still happy. All of a sudden the DNC has moral compass that prevents them from properly pandering to voters but full send genocide is worth losing all three branches of the federal government over.
(TLDR the first two paragraphs this turned to a novel of a rant)
this is stupid as fuck. no. it's on the dems. the reason they lost is because they don't mind losing. they're corporate cunts anyway, if they're not in power they'll still be comfortable so why even pretend to challenge the status quo and possibly scare away your bribers?
fuck no. the american people are stupid, yes, but it's not like that's genetic. they've been undereducated, overworked, constantly distracted and endlessly bombarded with propaganda for decades at this point.
politicians are allowed to work for companies they regulate and regulate companies they used to work for. they're allowed to be bribed legally as long as you call it lobbying and don't have "I will pass this law in exchange for this money" in writing. they're allowed to lie to the public without consequence.
the media is allowed to lie without consequence even when it's provable that they know they're lying. every day for years. lie. lie. lie.
the dumbest fucks alive are allowed to homeschooled their children and make sure their kids are at least as dumb.
not that schools are perfect. they are allowed to push religion and politics over science. meanwhile churches are allowed to give political sermons and still keep tax exempt status (technically not but in practice they are).
even with all this brainwashing it's not like people are allowed to think for themselves for a minute let alone research shit and stay on top of political issues. wages are ass and lots of people have to work multiple jobs. even if they don't companies aren't mandated to have PTO, not even for federal holidays. they're not mandated to raise wages either, even though rent always keeps rising.
just in case some people still might feel a bit too comfortable most are also blessed with crushing debt for the garbage education they got and the healthcare industry is just waiting for the chance to fuck them over if they ever dare get sick, let alone have an accident. you're not allowed to think, you're not allowed to breathe. work. crash. consume to feel barely good enough to keep working.
and on top of all of that, even if you manage to get through all that hurdle... voting is a privilege, not a right. especially if you're likely to vote blue, the system is in place to make your chances to vote as low as possible.
and even then, you have the electoral college and the senate to make sure a bunch of rock and dirt has as much say as millions of people on one side. which leaves tons of people to think why even bother?
so with all that, when everything is bad, and everyone is lying, as one of only two eligible parties you can't just throw your hands up and say "why aren't people more educated?" IT'S YOUR FUCKING JOB! people are hurting and one side is saying "hey I know everything sucks and you don't know how anything works so here's an easy answer: it's black and brown people" and the other side instead of correcting THAT, they're trying to correct THE PEOPLE and their justified feelings about how everything sucks and say "nah things are good actually"... fuck the democratic party.
Both can be true
"I am speaking"
A over third of eligible voters did not vote.
The couch was a more viable competitor than either candidate.
There was more than could have been done to represent voters' interests.
However fault is not binary. There's plenty of people and even events that take some portion of the blame.
A decent "party" would dispel "ignorance" rather than thriving on it.
That's completely within the bounds of reason.
1 ) public ignorance is a widespread social force not a personal character fault that happens to individually affect the majority of the population.
2 ) This attitude of moral contempt is actively repellent to the people we need to reach out to, who do not subscribe to your premise. A lot of people don't think they are fascists - they are wrong, but they'll still look at you funny unless you can do a damn good job of making the argument. The Dems couldn't, the media couldn't, and nobody is watching it anyway. WE have to do it. Make better arguments and reach out to people instead of circlejerking and making our opponents arguments for them.
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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.
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This is great. Needs a dash of misogyny though.
Trump won. Deal with it and eat shit. Your political scene is a fucking joke and a plutocracy for sale regardless of who is at fault here. Any outcome other then setting the congress on fire is not a good outcome.
You don’t want to set it on fire? Then shut the fuck up already.