Comment on Newsom Vows to Stop Proposed Billionaire Tax in California

• TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yup. And the DNC will take advantage of that fear to put forth candidates who will maintain the new status quo and fix nothing. The RNC will capitalize on the voter apathy and disconnect the DNC manufacturers and push the country further right.

  Repeat ad nauseum. There’s no solving this via elections, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t participate in it.

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  • calliope@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No, they weren’t perfect. Far from it. They were terrible choices put forth by one of the most powerful political machines on this planet, chosen to be just palatable enough to try and eek out a win from a further and further disconnected and disenfranchised populace. The DNC gambled and lost.

      Skirting the primaries and forcing Kamala Harris onto voters was a massive folly that bypassed the people’s right to play a part in picking the candidate.

      Are they preferable? Sure. I’d rather you attack me with a hack saw than a chain saw.

      It’s hard to completely blame the nonvoters, though. They’re just doing what they were taught in civics. Voting for the candidates that best represented their interests. There weren’t any candidates they believed would actually address their issues. And there weren’t. And there won’t be. At some point, the onus must fall on the DNC to actually do their job and pick likable candidates and not just the voters to just fall in line with whoever the party says they will vote for.

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      • calliope@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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