• return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
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    10 hours ago

    65,000,000 eligible voters don’t vote. Should have fought harder to get those butts off the couch to vote than just “but Trump”. If you don’t excite the base, they’re not going to go out and vote.

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        5 hours ago

        So was appealing to right wing voters and alienating huge portions of the populations. In fact the Democratic Party took a LOT more ‘actions’ to lose this election than the people who stayed home did. Put your anger where it belongs for fucks sake.

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      Preventing fascism isn’t exciting. It’s a necessity. It’s the civic equivalent of brushing your teeth.

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        Yeah that doesn’t work. Making that argument again and again and not responding to the above critique is why Trump won.

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            There was a lot of propaganda going around, but the Dems decided their message was to be in denial about the economy and to court the Republicans who were too sexist to vote for a woman anyway.

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              The problem is the Democrats told the truth about the economy. They said it was getting better slowly over time and that prices were never going to go back to what they were before Covid. People would rather hear Trump’s comfortable lies than face the uncomfortable truth.

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                Regular people associate “the economy” with their own subjective bubble. Regular people are dumb as fuck and the Dems shouldn’t pretend like we are a country with free education where people make collected and informed decisions.

                Despite the dems prepping the macro economy to distibute wealth to workers, the workers did not feel that wealth.

                It was a good economy for transitioning us to EVs, bad for affording human needs.

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      Biden hopefully will be the last “must secure the center” democrat. The winner in American elections is the one that has their base turn out more. If you do things to appease the center at the expense of the base, expect to loose.

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        Unfortunately the Neolibs would rather burn the country to the ground than lose control of the Democratic party

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      8 hours ago

      Well they can be excited about the new gender options now

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      10 hours ago

      Maybe this needed to happen as a matter of karma and punishment, for complacency and stupidity. Its just a sin others have to suffer for morons who dont know any better.

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        It already happened in 2016 though.

        People are crazy if they think this will be the time the Dems learn their lesson. They haven’t learned it for decades.q

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          no joke, I’d take the last time any day of the fucking week, the world is infinitely worse position for a manchild and an entourage of tech fascists to be taking power, we’re essentially already in the opening stage of WW3 because of Putin’s fantasies.