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agent_nycto@lemmy.world 3 days agoNo? Because we’re talking about our current political climate?
Trust me if I had a magic wand or a point of view cannon I’d change the democratic party in an instant. Hell everyone, make a global communist utopia.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I think we’re talking across each other.
Republicans are worse and I’ll never deny that. That doesn’t give democrats license to be as evil as they want to be as long as they’re the lesser evil. And to a lot of Americans, myself included, it looks like democrats are doing just that.
The last election demonstrated that they cannot get away with that behavior. That isn’t me purity testing. That’s me observing what happened. And I think that if the democrats keep acting like Lucy with the football, they’ll get the same results.
Democrats have not only lost the trust of their voters, they have earned their active distrust.
And their current actions aren’t exactly helping to repair trust. Ousting David Hogg, refusing to release the 2024 autopsy, interfering with the primary for Maine’s 2nd district. All of these point to a party that cannot be trusted.
I don’t ever hear anything about what democrats need to do in order to repair that trust and get back the disaffected voters they’ve lost. Just screaming at people with any criticism, regardless of how they voted.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I get that. I really do. I’d love it if they were better. But I’ll ask what I asked elsewhere: So what’s your solution with the situation we have right now, in regards to voting?
1- vote Republican, the overt fascist, white nationalists take over.
2- vote third party, they lose, either Republicans win or a Democrat might win, though doing that might help Republicans win.
3- don’t vote, and who knows who wins, though not voting trends to help Republicans.
4- vote Democrat, even though they suck, so that Republicans don’t win. The capitalist, not white nationalists win.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You’re really not listening at all. I voted for harris. I tried to kick the stupid football. You don’t have to convince me. I understand the argument and it was effective on me. I’m not the electorate more broadly though, and all the patiently explaining and lecturing in the world isn’t going to change the electorate you have. Because that has been tried and it failed. Disastrously. The party simply cannot win as second worst anymore.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And you’re not listening to me. I agree with you.
Democrats need to change or get out of the way.
Third parties need to be viable.
We need to end gerrymandering and get tanked choice voting.
But until that happens, assuming none of that happens before the next national election, which option are you gonna take?