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Take that pesky liberals! (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

I'm sure some of these strawman exist in a field somewhere keeping the crows away.

Democrats need to get rid of First Past The Post voting in the blue states they control. Time to admit they need help and shouldn't be going alone against the republicans

More democracy. More chances to defeat the republicans. More people engaged and involved in the political process.
More people voting = more votes for democrats. More chances of republicans electing a more moderate candidate.

Electoral reform is an absolute win for the people of this country. Except for the legacy poltical parties. They will unfortunately have to compete for your vote. If they are unable to stay relevant, that's on them for becoming weak and frail using FPTP as a crutch.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago

There isn’t 20 million pro-Palestinian people in the US. You liberals don’t want to admit it, but it was YOU who stayed home on Election Day. You made all that fuss about us needing to elect your YASS QUEEN SLAY corporate-funded DEI “hashtag ally” plutocrat, then didn’t even have the decency to get off your fat fucking asses, and skip brunch and your wine break for one fucking day to actually do your civic duty and vote.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Lay it off with blaming people who are mad at Democrats about Gaza for Trump. Honestly, it's tired, inaccurate, and wrong. Trump won the popular vote. The Dems ran a shitty campaign, they had no message, and failed to inspire 10 million of their previous voters.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

20% of the population is functionally illiterate in any language, an no one could out simplify Trump's simplified language, 'I good, she bad'.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Hard pills for Dems to swallow: there is only one cure of Right Populism, and it's Left Populism.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Why? That category of people objectively exists and that category of people objectively chose this and that category of people objectively made an illogical decision against their own interests. Nowhere in the meme is it saying "all voters are in this category", it's simply indicating this category of voter exists which is objectively true.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

Why?

Because it absolves the Democratic Party of its responsibility. They said this election was about preserving democracy. Then they didn't do EVERYTHING THEY COULD to get every last person hyped to vote for them. Instead, they complacently chose to ignore the legitimate concerns of a whole number of constituencies. They offered nothing to counter Right Populism. No grand vision, nothing to inspire anyone. They even leashed Walz, for fuck's sake. They let Trump waltz around in Michigan pandering to muslims while either doing fuck all or kicking their own muslim democratic leaders out of their rallies. The. Democrats. Fucked. Up. Stop blaming the voters, blame the Democrats. Otherwise, if your country has fair elections in 4 years, you'll have the same fucking problem all over again.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You truly believe there's nothing else at play? Being in the midst of a pandemic in 2020 had no part in voter turnout?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago

A lot of states expanded mail in voting. Probably removed a pretty large barrier of people who'd rather stay home than wait in line.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Why would people vote for Republican Lite, if there's the real deal? At least now we know chasing these Republican votes was foolish and that we should campaign on universal leftist points. Right? Right???

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

No, it's the voters who are wrong. FPTP requires us to vote for people in favor of FPTP.

I WAS going to do SO MUCH organizing this time... if Harris had bought us time. But alas, all strikes will go to Trump's desk now so why even bother. /s

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago

It's nice to see people discussing the voting system. Nows the time to talk about opening up the electoral system to 3rd parties right for sure.

If you get the chance, swing by my ask lemmy post to discuss how you and the people of your state can pressure your leaders into implementing electoral reform.

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