• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    No it’s not, the Democrats fucked themselves by not opposing Biden because it’s tradition not to.
    As long as Democrats don’t improve their own democratic process, they will keep fucking themselves.
    If Harris had been the candidate from the start, she might have had a better chance.
    Biden being obliged when he broke his promise to not run again, was absolutely a mistake by the Democratic party.
    Biden probably thought he had to save America again, and nobody told him no before it was too late.

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      6 hours ago

      If Democrats can be counted on for something: It’s that they always make the worst decisions at the worst time, then learn nothing from it.

      2000: Florida recount? Nah. It’s cool Supreme Court. Let’s have Bush around for 9-11 instead.

      2001: Fuck yeah endless wars. Approved. It’s cool to lie about weapons of mass destruction too.

      2002: Shame about that Patriot Act. Would be awful if that allowed all your meta data to be collected so you can be targeted for propaganda on every platform in the future.

      2004: Shame about No Child Left Behind. Hope your kids don’t grow up stupid enough to think Trump would make a good president.

      2008: Fuck yeah Obama! Get that HOPE ready! For Dems to have full control of every branch of the government! Only to use it to compromise with Republicans to remove the public option from national Healthcare. Hope that doesn’t create a spiral of misery for Americans culminating in them assassinating an insurance CEO!

      I’m stopping here. But only because I don’t want to keep typing about Citizens United, minimum wage, and literally the slow death of everything Democrats claim to have been protecting.

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        6 hours ago

        literally the slow death of everything Democrats claim to have been protecting.

        They also forgot to protect democracy somewhere along the way. 🙁

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          5 hours ago

          Democracy just died a death by 1000 cuts. Dems just have yet to realize it, let alone the fact they were the ones that stood by while it happened.

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            5 hours ago

            I’m pretty sure the ninety million people that didn’t vote had something to do with it also.

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              2 hours ago

              It did.

              Do you feel those 90 million were supposed to vote Dem?

              If so, by what mechanism?

              Certainly not magic. Certainly not out of some obligation to the DNC or Democrat leaders those 90 million clearly don’t have.

              The responsibility to move those 90 million towards a vote for a Democrat were the Democrats themselves.

              Yet in their failure to do so, they now blame those 90 million voters for not listening to them. Instead of the very clear fact those 90 million are just too poorly educated to understand what Democrats are even saying.

              Those 90 million choosing not to vote quite literally proves my point that Democrats blame others for their mistakes, instead of learning from them.

              Dems want to believe this country is in a condition where they don’t need to talk at a 5th grade level to get through to the majority of people. But the sad truth is that Trump talking like that won him two elections.

              Don’t blame those 90 million just because they voted for an idiot. Blame the Dems for not being able to dumb their policies down enough for the majority of this country to understand that they have a better option.

              They will continue to lose elections until they do.

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              Has there ever been an American election where like 30% of people don’t ignore it?

              Has any election in human history had the vast majority of people turn out without it being compulsory?