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Voting is changing the Oil to keep the engine running (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/politicalmemes

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While Education and Organizing is building the parts for a new engine the rest of the year.

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[+] [email protected] -31 points 9 months ago (3 children)

This is clearly directed at the ones that didnt.

[–] turmacar 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Diminishing returns.

Complaining that 12% of a sub-group of a sub-group of a population didn't vote the way you wanted is worrying about open portholes on the Titanic.

You are never going to get 100% agreement on... basically anything. 88% of group X voting the way you want is literally more people agreeing with you than Dentists agreeing toothpaste is important. (4 out of 5 dentists recommend = 80%)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Over 80% of the 12% of Bernie voters that went to Trump were conservatives or centrists, not leftists. The leftists voted for Hillary, Bernie was just more likeable across the board.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What's even more hypocritical is that they will turn right around and say that we need centrist candidates to get right wing voters. If that were actually true, wouldn't that mean that even more Hillary supporters wouldn't have voted for Bernie if he won the nomination? They want to have it both ways.

Bernie was the better candidate for the general. The 2016 election was bungled in the primary, not the general, and the argument they are making tacitly admits it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yep, it's just massaging of words because for liberals, they get to vote for exactly what they want.