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    1 year ago

    It’s not very well summed up lol. It’s totally ignorant of how the American government functions, at a basic constitutional level.

    How exactly are democrats supposed to pass these sweeping reforms?

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      1 year ago

      At the current moment, not a lot. What they needed to do was a whole lot of prevention of what we all saw that was coming and stop the republicans from changing and breaking the rules. A good analogy I read once was that you can build a fortress or a wall very strong, but given enough time without maintenance and active defense it will always be overcome. Our government is that fortress, and everyone has just assumed the power inherent in it is enough to stop bad actors and that everyone is acting in good faith, abandoning the wall and letting it be sabotaged. We need(ed) active defense of our democracy and the DNC refuses to.

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        1 year ago

        How, exactly, were they supposed to do these things without control of the government?

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          They weren’t. My other main criticism of the democrats is how bad they are about publicizing when they do good things, but mostly their almost complete lack of pointing out where the republicans are being awful and fucking over the working class. There is so much material to go after the republicans on, and they do nothing with it. The republicans on the other hand will hammer on Dems all day long om shit that isn’t even real, get their base all riled up and angry to vote. If the Dems used people’s anger and upsettedness at the republicans to drive people to vote we wouldn’t be in the place we are today, they would have been able to have control of the government.

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            I do agree that whoever writes talking points for Dems should have been fired and the land salted behind them like 20 years ago

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      At the current moment, not a lot. What they needed to do was a whole lot of prevention of what we all saw that was coming and stop the republicans from changing and breaking the rules. A good analogy I read once was that you can build a fortress or a wall very strong, but given enough time without maintenance and active defense it will always be overcome. Our government is that fortress, and everyone has just assumed the power inherent in it is enough to stop bad actors and that everyone is acting in good faith, abandoning the wall and letting it be sabotaged. We need(ed) active defense of our democracy and the DNC refuses to.

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        1 year ago

        You need to change the minds of a lot of Americans to accomplish that.

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            1 year ago

            That is absolutely false. The average American does not vote for candidates you want, which is why the candidates you want generally get blown out in elections.

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              In what way? If you are going to make such a bold and outlandish claim, back it up.

              The candidates I want never see general elections. They get quietly pushed to the side at the National Convention after months to years of tampering by DNC officials. This isn’t speculation, this is a fact that has been widely reported on.

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                1 year ago

                Lmao your candidates don’t see general elections because they lose by 3 million votes in the Primary

                That is most assuredly widely reported on.

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                    If a capitalist was running to get the presidential nomination from a socialist party, and party officials were disgruntled and sent emails where they were pissed about it, would the socialist party be tampering their primary against the capitalist?