Donald Trump supporters at the Missouri Republican Caucus on Saturday attacked fellow attendees who supported the former president's opponent, a prior member of the "grand old party" reported.Former Lincoln Project veterans affairs adviser Fred Wellman, an ex-Republican and current Democratic campai...
Uh excuse me what the fuck. This is some culty two minutes hate not-ok behavior.
They weren’t having them line up specifically to boo at them. At a caucus, you line up in groups depending on who you’re supporting.
Yeah and the yelling and cajoling is generally part of the process. It’s often a raucous affair.
Yep. People forget some of the 2016 and 2020 DNC primary caucuses didn’t go much better.
I mean, when the dictator is in-office that’s not usually what they do after they line up the dissidents. Those folks should feel lucky they just got the preview.
Its pretty hilarious to be honest. Real Leopards eating faces moment.
That might be the only thing I miss from reddit
There is c/leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world but the moderator locked and abandoned it about a month ago. I would guess Admin will eventually do something about that.
I’m sure I’ll catch heat from this but I try and avoid instances that don’t block threads. I know it’s generally futile but, to me, it shows where the admin’s priorities are and that’s somewhat important to me as well. I imagine a leopards might popup here or elsewhere one day.
I’m starting to think Trump’s base are a bunch of bloodthirsty fascists or something.
EDIT: OK no I thought of an even better one. Turns out the only politicians who get booed more than Trump are his rivals.
Hey so the right also has their own struggle sessions
And yet also not in the slightest bit surprising.
Really more of a stockade at that point
I mean you say this but moderate Democrats can’t handle progressives and leftists saying they’re voting 3rd party.
EDIT: lol
It’s not just moderate Dems, ANYONE that thinks not voting in protest (voting third party is slightly different but almost as bad in our current system) in the us general election is sending a message has a misunderstanding of the mechanisms of our elections especially those whose ideals are not mainstream. Participation is essential for a healthy democracy, and not participating is forfeiting one’s ideals and influence. It should be obvious that political campaigns aren’t likely to cater towards ideas that nobody visibly supports and risk alienating groups that reliably turn out to vote. None of this is any one person’s fault, but leftist refusing to vote only serves to shift the representation that much further right each election and spite the effort of other voters on the left, especially so if those withholding votes didn’t participate in primaries and vital local elections. It’s also very important to realise that this is very slow and can take decades.
In essence, each election skipped, no matter how small, is like your friends getting pizza for the party, and when they ask what you want, you say something like “It doesn’t matter to me, anything is fine.” But then when those friends come back with a pizza you really don’t like such as pineapple pizza, which most of the friend group asked for then it’s hard to blame them. And it’s certainly not helpful to get mad and announce that because you don’t like it you aren’t going to tell them what you want next time either. You will only ever get what you want by pure chance this way and it’s very unlikely to happen if your favourite pizza happens to be anchovie or barbeque chicken.
The Americans that participated chose Biden and trump And it turns out a lot of them want or are okay with fascism if they realise it or not, and have propelled trump. Biden has to consider those reliable voters on the right that are alienated by this if he wants to be re-elected
Do the leftist come out to push back and fight against the influence of the right simply by voting? Or do they do nothing and let things get worse because the rest of the people that put the effort in and participated in democracy didn’t choose what they wanted. I hope you can see that it really is the fellow progressives that this mindset hurts the most.
You tell me. If Biden managed to get elected without those votes in the 2020 general then why is he or anyone worried about 2024?
Extremist ideologues on all sides are a problem that will be handled. The only question is will they end the world before that happens.
Are you including all those people insisting on affordable housing, healthcare, education and food as “extremist ideologues”?
warra comeback!