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[–] Lucidlethargy 8 points 13 hours ago

Only one color on that map wanted things to be "different."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Biden's polling low, the voters want things do be different... huh, better campaign on doing nothing different! What? They're saying we're doing a genocide? Well, better point out that Trump is gonna do a worse genocide!

That'll be a great message, exactly the sort of thing that makes people excited to vote...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

"Democrats didn't entertain me enough so I didn't vote."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Yes. The party needs to be enticing. They lost an election. Shaming voters for not embracing lesser evilism is another mistake the party is making and you're reproducing here.

At least twice now the party has believed themselves to be assured of victory because Trump is on the ballot. Now they may never have a chance to run again.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, because people should vote on excitement and engagement, not truth ... totally doesn't devolve a democratic process into one of reactionary populisms fueled by false promises. If people want to get excited, they should go to a theme park. If they have a shred of civil responsibility, they vote, specially when things were as bad as they were.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

If people want to get excited, they should go to a theme park.

Welcome to America!

If they have a shred of civil responsibility

lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

That's the thing, when most of society laughs at that, the chances of having any sort of democratic process work drop to nothing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Americans have the most individualist "fuck you I got mine" ladder-pulling-upist culture in the entire world. Maybe someday we'll have a cultural revolution and come out the other side less anti-social, but in the meantime if you want anything done in this country you've got to convince people that there's something in it for them.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

i mean, it's also factually true. I still maintain that the dems ran a fairly good campaign. The problem was voter turnout, as it always is, except for 2020, when voting was easier.

Because democrats have an aversion to actually doing things for some reason (primarily age related)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lol. So many dumb voters who think everything changes for the better overnight if they protest vote and don't grasp that politics is a battle of voting for the less shitty option so you can take baby steps toward something better.

In the end, all they did was set us back X number of years/decades. Thanks stupids.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

politics is a battle of voting for the less shitty option so you can take baby steps toward something better.

Every single time Dems have won since Carter, we have been baby stepping towards something worse. The victories for gay rights under Obama were a brief outlier in our country's otherwise uninterrupted march towards fascism.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Looks to be on track to setting us back about 90 years and moving us about halfway around the globe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

I'm thinking 150 years, and staying right here....

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