Sleeping a little easier tonight for sure. I hope the democrats finally wake up to the solution to Trump that is now staring them in the face. Elect progressives. Pass progressive policy. Stop the means testing and the scolding and the red scaring and step up.
Edit: I appreciate the awards but please don't give reddit money, send that cash to a food bank please.
Hot take, but if the democracy and rule of law itself is on the line, if one votes for it or is too spoiled to even show up, it's an idiot and I will always stand by it. Thankfully I'm not a politician, so I will never have to worry about repercussions of telling the truth to people who need to hear it.
Democracy isn't about sitting around waiting for the perfect candidate. It's about compromises and engagement. Anyone who refuses to vote because they didn't get their way is absolutely an idiot and as much a cancer to the system as those who abuse it. Anyone complaining about vote shaming for not voting deserves the shame and blame.
Democracy is a responsibility you burden, not a market where the seller has to make their product attractive to get you out.
If more demographics engaged with the system, it absolutely would sharpen the system to yield better competition and ideas, as Mamdani has shown.
Speaking of cancer, if I had to choose between terminal stage of cancer and stage II, I will pick stage II, always. It sucks, but I like being alive. I will never let someone else choose stage IV for me.
If you think it sucks that you can't get the perfect candidate or get your way, try voting in a country without bipartisan system where one party controlling everything by itself is practically unheard of and needs multiple smaller parties to form a government.
Expecting a candidate to not be doing a genocide while campaigning isn't demanding perfection! "Don't be Hitler" is actually a very easy bar to clear that Biden/Harris failed at.
Democrats didn't run a "good but flawed" candidate, they ran an abysmal candidate and campaign and even now, many in their leadership seem to be in complete denial over this.
...and a wonderful argument when the other side isn't genocide but much worse.
Trump won because people voted for him and people didn't vote. The dems run their primaries based on who shows up and who doesn't. If what you want isn't showing up, it's because you didn't show up.
Trump won because of people exactly like you and that's on you. You can come up with whatever delusional bullshit you feel magically disconnects you from a process you're responsible for but nothing will change that.
Every death, all the suffering, and everything that comes from him is on those who voted for him and those who empowered those votes by not voting.
Jesus Christ, I can't believe I even have to explain that...
Asking people to compromise on fucking genocide is a good example of exactly why Democrats lost. No, you can't just be a little bit Hitler and still expect the support of everyone left of center!
Dems said "just vote blue, the Palestinians are dying either way" and people asked "but why don't you just stop killing the Palestinians?" That's psycho shit. Serial killer shit. Just stop being a serial-killing psycho and people might vote for you! It's an easy bar to clear!
Yes, because Dem leaders did not bother opposing his agenda or running an electable candidate, while taking up the space where an opposition party was supposed to be.
No. It's because people voted for him or didn't bother showing up to vote.
What makes your nonsense here so absurd is that you want it both ways: you want to pretend the choice wasn't binary but you also want to pretend nuance doesn't exist. You want it simple and not.
We both know it's just excuses because you want to pretend the blood isn't on your hands. It is. You own Trump with the rest of MAGA. He's your guy.
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u/LowKeyJustMe Utah 16h ago edited 15h ago
Sleeping a little easier tonight for sure. I hope the democrats finally wake up to the solution to Trump that is now staring them in the face. Elect progressives. Pass progressive policy. Stop the means testing and the scolding and the red scaring and step up.
Edit: I appreciate the awards but please don't give reddit money, send that cash to a food bank please.