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I can't imagine how you can see Democrats lose or nearly lose three elections in a row to Trump and come away thinking that they aren't the problem. Your blind allegiance to party over policy is the reason why Trump is yet again sitting in the oval office.
I have no allegiance to the Democrats. They suck balls. However I take a practical view and recognize that I am currently stuck in a sham democracy still using FPTP voting. As an individual voter, my power lies in messaging and lobbying, while damage control is the best I can do at the ballot box for any race that's outside of my local city/county. Following my "true conscience" at the ballot box and splitting the vote only leads to situations that we are now stuck in.
Thank you for putting words in my mouth though, as every hardcore third party "progressive" loves to do on Lemmy.
So the messaging is just keep voting Democrat no matter what and no matter how bad they fuck things up? You're stuck in this system yet your messaging is telling us to perpetuate this very system by refusing to do anything differently?
Refusing to acknowledge how far right the Democrats have gone while burying your head in the sand with the "vote blue no matter who" mentality as they support genocide, harm the working class, and do whatever they can to aid Republicans is why we're in this situation. These parties are two sides of the same coin. As someone else put it in another comment earlier, they're playing "good cop bad cop" and you're demanding that we submit to the good cop because they're so nice and polite as they work to take your freedom from you.
It's not "allegiance to the party;" that's a fucking lie. It's understanding of game theory and harm reduction.
Quit your bullshit.
"Harm reduction" is hilarious. It's like you're channeling your inner George W. Bush while talking about "enhanced interrogation."
What does game theory tell you about a strategy that's failed nearly three times in a row and given us Trump as president twice with all branches of government now being controlled by Republicans?
It's absolutely all about party allegiance when you refuse to even face the reality of our situation and want to attack those who refuse to bury their heads in the sand. The Democrats aren't the good guys. 🙄
to be fair the gop also has significant help, in the form of propaganda and voting mahcine rigging too, plus voter suppression. nobody was willing to question the machines being rigged.
Can we roll the tape of all the democrats who yelled voter rigging when Hillary lost, not to mention Hillary herself? That is a neo-lib/neo-con mechanism both sides play when it suits them.