• Optional@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    We had this same discussion in 2024. The ‘don’t vote for democrats’ crowd got what they wanted.

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      1 day ago

      And the Democrats doubled down on everything that was driving away their voters, proving that not only were those voters right, but that there is no redeeming the party.

      But keep doing exact the thing that created the problem, I’m sure that’ll eventually fix it.

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        19 hours ago

        No, it proved that your stragetgy of moving the Democrats left by not voting was a failure.

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          6 hours ago

          And that your strategy of ensuring the status quo never changes by reliably voting for it no matter how terrible it is has been a rousing success.

          Unless that’s not what you were trying to do, in which case you can find plenty of clown makeup this time of year in the Spirit Halloween that opened where the jobs used to be in your town.

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          15 hours ago

          If I’m a leftist, and the dems aren’t representing my beliefs and actively harming my community, why do you think they deserve my vote?