• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    3 hours ago

    The time to avoid this was when Obama won on a platform of Hope and Change.

    They did nothing. They’ve done nothing for decades since.

    The result is a matter of everyone simply looking at the historical evidence. The “lesser evil” party is still an evil party that makes things worse. Of course everyone thinks this. They will only think otherwise when things demonstrably get better instead.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      58 minutes ago

      Democrats really are incompetent. They think Obama won on charisma alone. No you dumb fucks. He won because his campaign literally promised things would change and there was a massive effort to register people to vote. The bar is so low, a candidate who has their staff setting up voting booths and registration areas near you makes it easy for people to think “They went through all this effort to reach me, the least I can do is vote for them.”

      Since 2008, they’ve completely forgot how that election went. Dems now do stupid shit like skipping over entire states or scold people for not voting. Trump’s 2016 campaign was the opposite. His staff obviously understood Obama’s 2008 strategy because they had Trump visiting multiple towns everyday promising to destroy the status quo.