Aaaeh don worry bout it, Gavin will take care of this choice for us.
/s (<= cannot stress this enough)
12 trans kids are enough to disintegrate the very fabric of society and civilization at large! Dear god… their power… is unfathomable!
[ trans kid turns super saiyan as the sky darkens and orchestral score swells in the background ]
Man I wish national Democrats were actually in favor of letting those 12 kids play badminton
Yeah most dems seem content to throw them under the bus.
Harris seemed disgusted by the fact that people associated her with trans rights.
Yea but they never will so the only option is to primary them.
Like Americans need to realize that not primarying democrats means they feel safe with your vote and are thus incentivized to prioritize seeking republican voters.
MAGA on the other hand literally primaried people for not being extreme enough… Only took them 6 elections if you think about it.
Like Americans need to realize that not primarying democrats means they feel safe with your vote and are thus incentivized to prioritize seeking republican voters.
Americans liberals think that everyone but them is a Republican. And, therefore, you must trick the Republicans into voting for you be appearing to be better at Things Republicans Care About than the actual Republican on the ballot.
Clinton, Obama, and Biden all did conservative pastiche and won. Therefore, Americans would never vote for a Limousine Liberal rainbow flag hugger from Fake America’s richest city if he was talking shit about veterans and fucking prostitutes in his free time. You’ve got to put John Kerry in a hunting jacket if you want to win Ohio. You need Bernie Sanders to denounce everyone in Cuba. Make Kamala Harris go on Hot Ones alongside Joe Rogan. You can’t step off a plane with your name on it or ride down a golden escalator, like some kind of out-of-touch elitist. You sure as hell can’t glad-hand the President of China or - god fucking forbid - North Korea. Anyone who did those things would lose in a landslide, purely because Real Americans hate it.
You have to play it safe. Only the safest candidates will win. That’s why Jeb Bush was Hillary Clinton’s biggest threat in 2016.
Democrats know they have a stranglehold on the primary process, and they know that the results of their interference with the will of the people will be interpreted as apathy on the part of the left.
In order to justify moving to the right.
The race to outflank each other on the right has been happening in the Republican party for over 40 years, but over the last 16 years they’ve gone increasingly batshit
GOP & DNC are the sword $ shield of the wealthy elites respectively.
But still GOP incumbents have always been more likely to face a funded primary opponent. Meanwhile DNC protects theirs from challengers.
They selectively protect incumbents. They didn’t do a thing to protect Cori Bush or Jamaal Bowman, but they protected Henry Cuellar.
Obviously they’re not going to protect the people we replace them with. That’s up to us!
Agreed, and support organizations like PV that do phone banking and door knocking to help those progressive candidates win.
Also Americans need to nominate people for candidacy. What stood out the most to me in Knock Down The House was that it was AOC’s brother in law that nominated her and the grass roots organization that vetted and asked her to run.
I think a lot of competant leaders don’t run for office because they don’t believe they will even make it onto the ballot.
I think a lot of competant leftists don’t run for office because they won’t even make it onto the ballot :/
Dems aren’t your friends.
Still vote for them though… But fight to keep them accountable and primary the fuck out of the establishment / career / corpo ones (re: nearly all of them… But power comes from the bottom up)
Yup. Politicians aren’t our friends, they are - or at least should be - something like our “employees”. WE (to some degree) choose them, and (to some degree) pay their salaries. It’s up to us to keep them accountable.
“I can’t decide if dems are lesser-evil, reluctant genocidaires, or wholesome smol-beanerinos.”
Dems top policy needs to be funding social services and adding healthcare to it. I want to see my tax money actually do good things for people in this country. Not do bad things to people in other countries.
Best we can do is not take your civil liberties away quite as quickly. We’re still going to bomb other countries though.
-DNC
Why do you Democratic critics only come up during election cycles!?
We’ve been here the whole time dumbass, you just tune it all out in between elections because you don’t actually give a shit
I’ve been a critic the entire time, and I still voted for Kamala, because I’d rather kick the can down there road not stomp on it and crush it right now. You people who claim to only hear it during elections just have your head buried in the sand the rest of the time.
12 trans kids,
you say?
“On one hand those trans kids give me the creeps. On the other, I get to call high school girls hot without consequences!”
Green Party: distract mostly left-leaning people to make it easier for Republicans to get elected
“It’s everyone else’s fault we lost” lol cope
It’s fucked up that the Greens actually went into business as Russian stooges instead of just being an opposition party.
Green Party:
Protecting the pedophile protectors.
“It’s everyone else’s fault we lost” lol cope
Sorry if you thought I was referring to you. Unless you are a green party politician. In that case I was talking about you. Lol cope.
Quit blaming others for your own failures. If a third party has enough power to fuck you out of an election win then you need to take them and their supporters seriously and make credible policy offerings to win them over. Dems refuse to do that, so they lost to a demented pedophile. Learn the lesson and do better or it’ll happen again.
It’s also to make way too much money off of a collapsing system
Not as tough as you think for insane MAGA, they have been commanded to hate, so they will hate.
Are the trans kids hot? What school do they go to?
I didn’t know POTUS had a Lemmy account
There are dems on the epstein list too, both parties are on the same team
Are there dems on the list? Sure! BURY THEM IN LEGAL HELL TOO.
Are both sides The Same™️? No, you fucking dipshit dorkass loser.
Democrats are flawed corporatist neoliberals for the most part, and I wish every moment of every day that they embraced the very real and very vocal contingent of voters crying for leftist policy, but they are by no means The Same™️ as the genocidal accelerationist Fascists that modern Republicans are. To suggest otherwise is delusional.
They’re “not the same” in the same way that the good cop and the bad cop are not the same in a good cop/bad cop routine. The difference doesn’t fucking matter, they’re working together against you. Dems aren’t “flawed” they’re corrupt, and spineless halfwits like you are helping them get away with it.
Gtfoh with that both sides bullshit
They’re the same side lol
I’m right, you’re fine with pedophiles and genocide as long as it’s your team doing it
Literally lock them all up. No one here thinks Democrat pedophiles are okay. What the fuck are you even talking about. Only one party invaded Iran and is threatening nuclear war. The right wing is actively destroying our democracy and the only people fighting back are on the left.
The US has never been a democracy, it was never even a particularly good representative republic. Maybe you don’t think it’s different when dems do it, but there absolutely are people who think that way and they’re extremely loud about it so there’s no fucking way you’ve never seen it.
Don’t cut yourself with all the edge
I’m right, cry about it
Not really, you’re just trying to pick a fight.
Yeah really
.ml
.world
sh.it :D
Yep, cry about it
I will, all night and part of tomorrow morning, too.
