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I dream of a day we get to hunt the dixiecrats down in a version of the hunger games
"oh but why won't people vote for the democrats?!?!"
Because they're fucking pussies. Time to vote for the Black Panther Party. I don't care if you're white. I am too.
Now dawn that black beret and start marching with rifle in hand. We're going to go form some fucking cooperatives!
And those same people won't vote for an AOC or Sanders in their district because... Reasons?
Right seriously
"Erm Bernie isn't viable because he's too radical"
As if Biden or Harris had any appeal aside from not being Trump????
I'm still mad people didn't care that the dems essentially skipped their primary as a way to cheese their candidate selection and not because they actually didn't have the time to complete a primary.
C’mon, they waved those little signs and all that.
We need a new party. Or burn it all to the ground.
Electoral politics are clearly a fools errand at this point anyway
Voters: Free Luigi, eat the rich
Elected officials: 💁♂️
Exactly.
Eventually something minor cannot be done, we want democrat politicians to stop cooperating with Republicans... but no, they just roll to expose their belly and vote in the budget bill.
Democratic party is the party of status quo.
Conservative party is the party of destruction/cancer.
The people want a party of progress.
The people will never get what they want with these two parties in charge of everything.
Just a sad fact. Things will get worse before they get better.
Democratic leaders blearily looked up from their mid-afternoon cocktails on the decks of billionaire's yachts and said, "They want us to what?"
Indeed, they're just too status quo.
Trump is actively killing democracy. Some Democratic politicians have chosen the most pathetic, inexcusable response possible: bland indifference.
I’m torn between fear that our government will collapse, and the cynical realization that maybe it deserves to.
So, trumps polling all time low numbers, democrats are polling low numbers.
I feel like if I release T-Shirts that just say "Everything sucks", they would be universally popular.
*gestures broadly* T-shirts
Person wearing "gestures broadly" t-shirt standing next to someone wearing a "Thanks, I hate it" t-shirt.
I'd vote for that ticket.
Unfortunately I think the people need to start fighting first. Neither side can count on their elected officials anymore. One side is just too stupid to realize it yet...
Need some serious, if not injurious protests. Time to fight and make some noise.
Fuck Americans. And I say that as an American.
A good chunk of you dont give a fuck about voting and that's why were here.
And they probably aren't smart enough to sign up to Lemmy.
So eat it up. Everyday. Wake up and smell it. All the shit.
Democratic party is owned by capitalists. They will never fight for policy that actually improves living conditions of the working class, and thus their sole ‘popularity’ has to stem from people who think they will fight against fascism (they won’t and they don’t).
US voters want to fight against the one party state .... the Democrat/Republican Party
I'm eagerly waiting to see US voters fighting against Republicans, I'm not sure I've seen it in my whole adult life
fight rather than compromise
Why are there so many stupid people that can vote? Because that is how fascists and authoritarian governments get to grab power.
History has given us some of the best documented examples of how it can go terribly wrong. Specifically Hitler and how he first destroyed democracy. Every step Trump is taking is the same as Hitler did.
Hungary is another good case of how the right got into power and then changed laws to make it extremely unlikely they will ever be unseated.