I mean... Have you been on Lemmy long? Progressives LOVE to shit all over Democrats all the time. Like not just here, in real life, etc. Seems the animosity cuts both ways honestly. All to the detriment of both.
timbuck2themoon
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Im only blaming people who either 1) don't exist because they aren't progressive or 2) don't vote.
It's pretty simple. And if youre of the opinion that progressives can't swing the election for the Democrats then youre of the opinion that theyre so insignificant that they couldn't ever tilt the Democratic party anyway.
Your experience basically flies in the face of how millions around the world live all the time without cars or needing them that much.
Maybe your particular situation, who knows, but yeah.
Are you with Democrats or not? You act like it's some shadowy cabal. People just go vote in a primary. Progressives don't win. And my main point is- Republicans voted in the primary for their far most right candidate but still voted Republican in the general. They trained the party to move to the right, like a dog.
Progressives either 1) aren't numerous enough to do anything like that or 2) get upset and either never vote in the primary or sit out both the primary and general when their preferred person doesn't make it.
Again, either way theyre irrelevant. This is the uncomfortable truth the op is talking about. Like Bernie and Aoc are popular yes? Holding rallies that get a lot of support? Then where are the rest of progressives?
If progressives were numerous enough that wouldn't matter.
Somehow the magats got their psychos in power over a number of years. Progressives don't.
Sound like fun people. And they old? Buy the castle man.
Maybe it wasn't that then. I don't say I support it but I'm guessing they were thinking (old school) that if they voted for someone who of course they don't like but is actually a somewhat serious candidate that the Republicans would respond by nominating more like that.
But again, that kind of thinking is still going on in the Dem party and obviously outdated. One would think they'd learn that there is no give and take with this batch of Republicans. At all.
The difference is that basically anyone nominated after Rubio would be worse. He's basically the best person put forward by this admin, as sorry as that is.
Sounds more like damage control than much else. That they have to do because, you know, America thought they didn't have to bother voting dem because it's whatever. Hence gestures around
A result that summed up both teams' seasons honestly. A random fluke goal is the winner.
And yet progressives say their policies are so supported and yet they can barely get Anyone elected.
Begs to wonder how that makes sense too or else they would've tea partied the dems by now.
I wish it were true but either progressives are too few or too lazy. Either way, same result.
I'm waiting for the alarms to ever wake Americans up honestly. Easy to blame a party but seriously, will America ever wake up?
Because too many Americans are too fucking lazy to do a simple thing like voting.