• @djsoren19
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    101 year ago

    The Dems only real position right now is “not being Republicans.” They’re barely able to maintain the status quo and prevent us from backsliding further, there’s very little chance that any forward progress towards a better future is going to come from them.

    • Ænima
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      101 year ago

      Not sure why you’re getting down voted so much. We have no truly leftist or left of center parties in this country. We have fascism-lite and status quo right.

      When Nixon won he won by a super large percentage. Almost all the states were red. Look at the electoral map for Nixon’s win, if you can find it, it’s shocking. You know why it looked like that? The DNC ran a progressive candidate. And they’ve not done that again since.

      Not saying Dems aren’t better, by far they are, but they aren’t progressive and we can’t expect them to enact progressive changes.

      Just gotta keep voting for the lesser of the evils until these dinosaurs either retire from, or die in, office. It’s sad, it’s frustrating, but it is all we can do for now. Keep voting for the party not actively rooting for a dictatorship and we might make it through this.

      • archomrade [he/him]
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        41 year ago

        My mantra is, “change happens everywhere but the general”

        General elections need to be reformed before a real progressive candidate has a chance at election, and even then, a progressive president has little chance of enacting real reform once in office.

        Those reforms happen and the local, state, and Congress level, and even more often they happen at the union and labor level.

        People are bickering over our binary choice for president, but the real focus should be on the lower offices. When you’re shooting to kill, you dont aim for the head and fire once , you aim for center-mass and steady yourself for repeat shots. Or I guess you get real close and use a sawed-off.

    • @shadowSprite@lemmy.world
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      71 year ago

      This is why I hate the Dems. They aren’t fucking doing anything. Yeah, they aren’t Republicans, but they claim they can’t get anything done because the Republicans won’t let them. Then why are they letting the Republicans get so much evil shit done? How is it that one side can accomplish their agenda and the other side sits and goes "sorry guys, they don’t want to share their power so we won’t be able to accomplish our goals lol better luck next time. " Fucking useless twats.

    • @Sami_Uso@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      People down voting this but not arguing it is pretty telling. Libs hate being criticised but can’t argue it without sounding whiny “they tried!!”