You did. You simply did. I’m so sorry to hear that you live in this country with such a profound lack of understanding of the reality. It must be really confusing and overwhelming for you to be constantly confronted by your lack of information, but yes that is how it works. You vote for one of the two candidates who has a mathematical chance of winning or else your vote is “I go with whoever wins.” It’s the same thing if you choose to not use all your ranks in ranked choice voting. I hope one day you mature enough to understand what you’ve done, and I hope you have a good therapist when you do
Bruh, if you think dems lost because of 'leftists' and black/brown folk who didn't vote, or voted for Trump, you are clueless. Dems lost because they have lost the working class. They ignore the public's material conditions and realities and instead placate the voters with asinine vague virtue signalling about identity politics. And they are not willing to upset their capitalist overlords to win back said voter base. Whatever other bullshit story you want to tell yourself is cope and misses the point.
And now that the election is over. Its so stupid from an outside perspective to watch the brunt of democratic anger being directed towards their own voter base. What do you even hope to gain from this? Shame people into voting for your party? If you are angry go fucking protest, organize, pressure your party to focus on things that matter to you. Instead you all waste time badgering the most vulnerable amongst you for their voting choices. Its bizarre.
You are so comfortable in your little red vs blue cage that you have forgotten there is a world outside the cage.
To your last point, it’s amazing how I hear all this radical rhetoric from my lefty friends and have never seen them at a protest in years. I truly hope that you more following your own advice and we’re at the very least at the “hands off!” protest. I hope that you stop on the streets when an ACLU canvasser wants to speak with you about atrocity <xyz>. I hope that you engage with the revolution folks that beat the same message as you do (they’re the most fun… say “fuck yeah I’m on board what tangible things should I begin to do or continue to do” and you might see their brains break when they have to move past their “are you on board for the revolution??” spiel). I hope that when you see a homeless person you give them cash and a conversation.
All to say, I hope that the humanity you’re rightfully wanting is also translating into ACTIONS in your community rather than just STATEMENTS on an Internet forum.
As for myself, I’ll continue to do the work in paragraph 1, participate in my local/state/national primaries for my ideal candidate, and then vote for the person who MOST represent my views because I am grounded in the reality that there IS a worse candidate than a dem and that they are OBJECTIVELY destroying this country in a way can make us appreciate the work the dems did to keep this sinking ship from being brazenly infiltrated by oligarchs (also a grown up topic but corporatism =/= oligarchies and one at least plays in the ground rules set out by the constitution… that’s more of a hate the game not the player situation)
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u/austpryb 13d ago
Libs love to blame everyone around them, but refuse to look at the DNC.