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this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2025
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I've been loudly and proudly critical of the democrats while also voting for Harris and urging others to do so. The democratic presidential campaign in 16 and 24 amounted to: you should vote for us because the other guy sucks. We can get into a lot more details than that, particularly on the shortcomings of the policy plank and messaging, but that's the gist. It didn't work in '16, there was ZERO reason to think it would work in '24, but fuck it, we can always blame the voters.
Unrelated story time, after I got my driver's license, my alcoholic dad would get hammered and then demand that I drive him to the liquor store to buy more liquor, and if I didn't, then I would be responsible when he crashed into someone and killed them while trying to drive himself. It was just a strategy to get me somewhere where I had to listen to him tell me what a piece of shit I was for about an hour, of course, but before I knew any better, I would comply. Eventually I just told him that he was welcome to drive himself, but I'd be letting the state patrol know how to find him.
Dunno why I remembered that story just now. Huh.
there was ZERO reason to think it would work in '24
Aside from the fact that it worked in 2020, you mean?
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A "state patrol" would be nice about now. Know where to find one?
I was alluding to a higher jurisdictional authority which could help in this particular instance.
Ahhh, okay! Got it. Well, in this case, we might not be able to go to the authorities, given that the authorities are kinda the problem. There's really only two things you can do when that's the case: give up, or organize within your community to build resilience. I mean, for all the jokes about violence, Trump and Elon are symptoms as well as causes. If someone redacted them, we'd still be stuck in the same causes and conditions that led us here, so it's not a fix. The best cure for what we have is building resilience as much as we can where we can.
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Why are y'all so obsessed with third party voters lmao
I voted 3rd party in the last UK election, it probably helps that our system is 650 elections at once across the country. You are only voting for your local representative. But it is still FPTP which is pretty bad as a system, it's still less shit than the US system though.
My thinking is that sure they won't win this time but if support for them starts to increase (it is doing so) then the party may at some point put more focus on this area for a future election and win. This is how they have now got some influence and also if you look at the local level it takes even less. Most local council elections where I live are won with less than 1000 total votes because they cover pretty small areas. There are of course also cases where a party loses narrowly because of a 3rd party, a local one here had the minor parties fighting between each other and the incumbent national party came dead last with 5%.
Because it would be the solution to a better voting system
More parties are better, because there is never just black or wait (or better said just blue and red)
The world is more nuanced than that, but sadly this is already too complex for too many people.
If they can blame the voters then the DNC doesn't need to change.
Sounds true... but if you remove one excuse, they will find another. They would rather go down with the ship than change.
After all, changing means losing thier cash flow and influence. Letting the reps win means they can probably keep those things for the rest of their personal lives. They'll be dead before we become a true one party system.
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Personally I'm impressed with their sneaky support and unyielding praise of the genocide they administered directly.
To all third party protest voters: I hope you get a red hot wire coat hanger forced into your anus.
Just to be clear this is not a threat, I am unwilling to shove the hanger up your ass. I just want someone else to step up and handle it. (Kinda like your own unwillingness to think critically before a major election, ironic isn't it?)