Edit: Image is from this Reuters article deconstructing Trump’s latest rally.
Haha this guy thinks a two party system is a democracy
It’s a shame that liberals expect so much more from their candidates. It leads to a party that gets fractured and just hands the win to Republicans.
Considering our country already gives Republicans a head start with the electoral college, gerrymandering and the senate structure, this fracturing makes it even more difficult for liberals to win.
2016 did so much to screw over liberals. Not just with the president, but with the senate and statewide elections. I honestly believe liberals won’t survive another Trump presidency.
Edit: and Supreme Court… Dems should have had a 5-4 advantage if they just voted for a shitty candidate. Now we will likely be in the minority there for decades.
It really boggles the mind. Conservatives are single issue voters, and they show up so their shitty single issue gets a huge amount of attention from candidates.
Progressives are all-issue voters, meaning if a candidate doesn’t support ALL of their issues then the progressive stays home. As a result, candidates pay attention to none of their issues and progress is slow.
Progressives also view voting as a moral issue, i.e. if you vote for Joe Biden you’re literally committing genocide and all the bad stuff that happens while Biden is president is your fault. In the same breath they’ll tell you how helping Trump get elected by suppressing the vote isn’t their fault and somehow absolve themselves of the moral implications of a Trump presidency.
No one slows down progress as much as progressives.
Surely, not punching left hard enough has been the one thing holding back liberals from winning. Remember to really get your hips into it if you want to beat Trump this time.
Meanwhile, nobody makes excuses quite like liberals. You give them warning months in advance that they’re fielding unpopular candidates with policies many Democratic voters don’t support, and when they lose, liberals come out to go, “It’s everyone else who’s wrong, not me.”
Dems should have had a 5-4 advantage if they just voted for a shitty candidate.
I was there voting for the shitty candidate in 2016 and everyone else was blabbering about emails and how Trump could never win so why bother voting?
Edit: In 2024 the same morons are blabbering on about genocide Joe and encouraging people to vote for third parties and shit here on Lemmy.
“Why bother voting” is the reason Trump gets into the office the first place.
Ti honestly believe the disapproval of Israel will be what gets Trump in office this year. Which is ironic cause he supports Israel even more and is even more antagonistic towards Iran. He moved the embassy fully validating Israel and invalidating Palestine.
Also he ended the Iran nuclear agreement for no good reason then attacked a high ranking Iranian official right before the pandemic started. He would be all on board with world war 3.
Sick I get to do my joke for the nth time
spoiler
votes 3rd party
Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people…but the people are retarded.
- Some enlightened human a few years ago or something, I forgot his name.
People usually get what they deserve, unless they deserve what they get. I sure hope the young ones all fired up (and rightly so) about the situation in Gaza also come to realize that by withholding their vote for Biden, or voting for a 3rd party candidate without a chance of winning, they are guaranteeing that Trump will take office, and if they think things are bad now, just wait till he starts (or rather continues) dismantling democracy. Then they will never have free speech nor the right to protest again.
Sounds like someones hankering for some delicious shiny boot leather. Kissy Kissy pucker up!
Do you not think it’s odd that republicans have such dedicated voters while democrats have such non-committal voters? Why do you think that is?
As late as 1980s, the GOP had a Liberal wing. Once Reagan got his claws firmly embedded the Right was able to marginalize or remove them.
There’s an old saying in US politics; Democrats fall in love and GOP fall in line. GOP will vote for any candidate with an R next to their name, and the Dems want someone they can get excited about.
Wild speculation: republicanism only exists as a cult created by the propaganda of a political party. Of course one of the core tenets of such a cult would be voting above all else. The Democratic voters are all the other, non-cult members who don’t have any such religious fanaticism about voting
