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You don't think anyone was saying it in 2008 or 2004 or 1996 or 1984? Nevermind the off-years, the municipal elections, the special elections, the judicial elections, the time when your favorite politician is on a singing show...
Isn't it curious that Democrats can hold every branch of the federal government in 2008 only to watch fascism grow out of control on their watch? And then, by 2016, the cancer is everywhere, so we need to vote them all out. But the people we're voting for won't do a fucking thing to keep ACB off the bench for three months. So there goes the Courts. And then they've got Congressional majorities and the Presidency in 2021, but... oops, again! Can't prosecute Trump. Can't prosecute DeSantis. Can't prosecute Ken Paxton. Can't even prosecute Rudy fucking Guiliani.
And now we're back in 2024, begging for votes, because we need one more shot to do our fucking jobs, please, please, PLEASE, just one more vote, we promise this time it'll be different!
Only this time, we're sending 2000 lb bunker busters to Israel so they can slaughter Palestinians, while our candidate of choice is getting up in front of college crowds to tell them that any kind of protest is an illegal form of antisemitism. And the entire pitch for the Presidency this time around appears to be "If you don't vote for me, the wealthiest people in the country will hit the big Heat Up The Planet button until we all bake to death (but even if you do they still might)".
Cool cool cool. Love democracy.