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Americans: Never, EVER question again how Hitler came to power in 1933 Germany
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Yes. The voters preferring fascism over liberalism is the voters' fault. If the voters weren't fascists and fascist apologists, Kamala would have won.
Today 71 million fascists, 66 million leftists, and 107 million fascism-apologists decided on the POTUS.
In Nazi Germany, the Jewish survivors had a word for people who didn't vote against Hitler: Nazis.
First of all, Drag, I voted for Harris, and actually voted Democrat down ballot. So from this trans veterans lips to your ear canals: Drag can go fuck Dragself for calling me a Nazi for having the audacity to criticize the party I'm forced to vote for that doesn't represent any of my interests.
And that right fucking there is why Democrats lose, and Democrats are to blame: they can't do anything but give us a candidate to vote against, and not one to vote for.
How many voters do you think they would have pulled running on an actual, progressive platform instead of the status quo bullshit we're all clearly tired of? Medicare4All, free tuition, free school meals, actually funding social welfare programs, actually enshrining LGBTQ+ and bodily autonomy rights into law, expanding the supreme court to actually reflect the country's wishes, abolishing the filibuster so progress can potentially start again in the Senate, stopping weapons shipments for the Palestinian genocide (or ffs, even taking a stance on the genocide)?
The Democrats lost, and fascism won, because the Democrats refuse to listen to their base. Dem voters stayed home because their party leadership failed to inspire them, and I'm sick of the people asking for policies that will actually benefit them instead of some billionaire oligarchs (where's the blame pointed at the millions they funneled into the elections) being blamed for everything. This isn't even considering the four years Biden had to show the American people any progress, any discernible improvement in their economic lives, and failed to do so.
Just like in 2016: the DNC forced a candidate onto the party they didn't want, refused to listen to any vocal portions of the party while condescendingly telling them that party leaders know best and they need to fall in line, campaigned on uninspiring centrist policies and a return to the status quo, keep preaching about working across the aisle while being slandered and shit on, and then assume the race is in the bag because the other candidate is a fascist reality star.
And just like in 2016, they lost, and they have no one to blame but themselves.
You live in a democracy. You knew that the people who heard your words would decide the outcome of the election. And you told them Harris is bad. Then they didn't vote for Harris. It's your fault. You killed drag's friends.
Yep, let's blame the person who A. Told people to vote for Harris leading up to the election, if you check my comment history, and B. Voted for Harris.
The Democrats lost because of their own hubris, Drag, and their own entitlement and arrogance. My words made no difference, especially considering Harris lost Michigan by less than 100,000 votes. The same state that launched the Palestinian Protest Vote movement, where over 100,000 people cast uncommitted votes to protest the Biden admins stance on Israel.
So maybe the Democrats should listened to the voices of their constituents, Drag, and maybe people like me would have less to complain about.
But your friend's blood, and mine (I'm trans, drag, you're not the only one that exists on the queer spectrum), is on the Democrat's hands, and no one elses. They reran their playbook from 2016 and it cost them, maybe they'll finally learn their lesson.