• whoxtank28@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Democrats suck and are ineffectual at accomplishing their (generally decent) goals.

    Republicans are trying to turn the US into a dicatorship. I hope this was a hyperbolic statement, but it seems like this is where we are now.

    Why can’t we be critical of democrats by being selective in the primaries? I think that a protest vote for an independent candidate, especially if you were in a swing state, has proven to have been a very poor choice.

    Edit: To add to my initial point, I think that we are seeing a lot of post-hoc rationalization from non-voters and protest voters.

    You would have to be crazy to prefer the outcome that we got over having Kamala, and if you contributed to our current situation, fuck you.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      Why can’t we be critical of democrats by being selective in the primaries?

      Because half the time they don’t have primaries and the other half they call anyone making good arguments “unelectable radicals”

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      Voting for genociders and pro-militarized police didn’t stop the genocide or police murdering black people, so I would count it as a very ineffective strategy as well. I rather vote for what I actually believe in than not voting because I will hell not vote for the garbage democrats.

      Edit: “Protest vote” lmao, I don’t owe my vote to Democrats.