Comment on If the democrats executed the same fake electors scheme trump tried to execute, wouldn't Republican opposition be admission of trumps guilt?

• Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You’re not being the adult. The adult gets their hands dirty when it’s t8me to get their hands dirty. Who watches the watchers? The answer isn’t crime fighting vigilantes. It’s other watchers.

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  • Lauchs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m not understanding what you’re trying to say.

    Are you saying the Democrats, after called trump’s use of fake electors a threat to democracy, should try that failed tactic?

    And are you saying this for 2024? After the Dems lost the popular vote, every swing state, the Senate and Congress, Dems should try to install Kamala as the 2024 winner?

    Or that they should do that in 2028, regardless of the outcome or only if Republicana don’t cede power or?

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    • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m saying they should do the 3xact same thing trump did and will face no consequences for and see how the Republicans respond in turn.

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      • Lauchs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You want them to simultaneously seem like hypocritez AND idiots?

        To what end? Funsies?

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      • WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The problem is that the democrats are playing the game called “democracy.” The Republicans stopped following the rules of the game because they don’t want to play it anymore. If the Democrats do what the Republicans do, then the game is no longer be played. You can’t really give up on democracy and then bring it back. It rarely ever works that way.

        If you cede the ground of democratic norms, rules, and policies just to win, you ultimately lose because you no longer have a democracy. In many respects, getting the Democrats to start doing the same thing is precisely what the Republicans want. Because that means they can finish burying democracy, and they’re better positioned to win the game called “fascism.”

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  • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, it signals to every both sider that they were right all along, and all the people they’ve been prosthelytizing to might actually start believing them.

    If you want to be on the side of democracy, you don’t just decide to stop being democratic unless you’ve given up.

    You’re not going to solve anything by playing by their rules, you’re only going to galvanize them. They are the party of “government doesn’t work”, doing this just gives them more ammo.

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    • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The government doesn’t work.id one side can break the law and walk away scott free and if the other side does the same exact thing they have consequences. What’s there left to argue at that point?

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