• GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldOP
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    why are y’all scared of taking responsibility for allowing a Nazi to gain power when you decided to not vote?

    the DNC is out of touch with voters.

    that doesn’t absolve the electorate from failing to rally behind a candidate that was the best choice to stop a NAZI REGIME from taking power.

    if you didn’t vote, or voted 3rd party, you’re no better than magats.

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      why are y’all scared of taking responsibility for allowing a Nazi to gain power when you decided to not vote

      I voted for Kamala but I still blame the DNC

      the issue is two fold

      a) they played games with democracy, further accelerating the erosion of whatever little faith remains in our democracy institutions. there should have been a primary, not the underhanded switcharoo we got to witness where for the first time in US history since primaries were a thing… we had a presidential candidate nominated without a single vote

      b) while voters are struggling and going through a period of profound insecurity - not only financially but in a very real social sense - they offer more of the same. neoliberal status quo. people are desperate for change and the DNC offers them nothing.

      you blame the voters but you do not want to put an ounce of blame on the party that would rather lose an election than offer meaningful change

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        and installing a Nazi regime that has, on record, stated they will never let go of control is the best answer y’all could come up with?

        how is any of that going to make the struggle BETTER?

        will unbridled fascism help calm the masses and stabilize the inequalities of the previous democracy?

        will it restore and protect the rights of Americans?

        you blame the voters but you do not want to put an ounce of blame on the party that would rather lose an election than offer meaningful change

        I blame the DNC of being inept! I never fucking said they weren’t!

        I can still blame the electorate for allowing a fascist dictatorship to take hold in American government.

        Just because you call out a fault doesn’t absolve the other party, both are at fault here. I’m just disappointed that voters ignored all reason and decided to fuck all of us(including themselves), to spite us.

        btw, what kind of “meaningful change” can we expect now that sweet potato Hitler is in power?

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          Voting for a Nazi won’t make things better, but when people are desperate they want change, any change. Weimar Germany was democratic, Hitler and the Nazi party legitimately won the popular vote.

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        you blame the voters but you do not want to put an ounce of blame on the party that would rather lose an election than offer meaningful change

        Uh…

        the DNC is out of touch with voters.

        What is this, if not shared blame?

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          i guess the implication is that he puts more blame on the voters, as that is what his comments are mainly focused on.

          me personally I don’t blame the voters at all. just like I don’t blame the German public for voting in the Nazis.

          humans are stupid herd animals who will elect strongmen when they feel weak and scared.

          i believe you can only put blame on people that have autonomy. and the only people with any real autonomy in this country are the elites, which have stuck their fingers in their ears and their heads in the sand for far too long.

          the pressure pot is cooking and I think it’s too late to stop it. maybe if we were a little less greedy over the last few decades and a little less focused on the short term, we could have skipped this resurgence of fascism that we’re about to live through

          but politicians only care about the next election and corporations only care about the next quarter. we are a short term society and have sacrificed the long term health of our country

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            Interesting. That’s an angle I’ll have to consider. It seems like democracy with fixed terms and term limits has a similar problem to capitalism: myopia.

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        Makes me feel better.

        I guess we’ve got, what, the next 80 years to blame each other until the Nazis kill us all?

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      The blame falls on people in power not delivering for the working class/poor. There is no better ally for the GOP than modern spineless Dems who center their politics around them. Every third party voter could have voted for Harris and she still would have lost.

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        The blame falls on people in power not delivering for the working class/poor.

        No, I’m pretty sure it was the people who refused to vote. All 20 million of them failed to identify the obvious threat to our democracy and react accordingly.

        There is no better ally for the GOP than modern spineless Dems who center their politics around them.

        Spoken like a true extremist. Now, the sad thing is, I never considered myself a Democrat. I was something of a hybrid between leftist and Democrat. After this election though, I’m neither. Now I’m an anti-extremist, extremist. And I know I’m not the only one.

        Every third party voter could have voted for Harris and she still would have lost.

        We all know that’s a lie. 20 million votes to Harris would have swung it greatly in her favor.

        But that’s fine. You keep lying, and I’ll keep hating extremists.

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          Cope all you want. But she made the choice to court Republicans and chase the ghosts of Cheney Era Voters and paid for it. When Trump can position himself as to speaking to working class issues than a Dem.

          " hybrid between leftist and Democrat" Yeah a centrists no need to rebrand it.

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                You seem to have confused me for somebody who gives a fuck about the DNC.

                I couldn’t give a fucking rat ass about the DNC, the RNC, Independents, Green Party, Tea Party.

                I only care that there are Nazis taking over the United States of America in January. I care that 125 to 200 million Americans will pay the price for the negligence of 20 million Americans.

                I don’t judge you based off of what your political leaning is.

                I judge you based on if you are a fascist supporting boot licking Nazi loving piece of shit.

                If you didn’t vote this election cycle, you’re as good as a fucking Nazi to me. If you voted third party, you’re as good as a fucking Nazi to me. If you voted Republican, you are a fucking Nazi to me.

                Please, by all means, vote however you want. Vote your conscience. But I’ll still think you’re a Nazi if you didn’t vote for Harris.

                Not because you are a Nazi, but because you didn’t actually try to stop the Nazis.

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                  Brother I voted harris. And while I fucking wish that everyone was either politically conscious enough or willing to let the ego drop for the time required to keep a Nazi out, they ain’t. They never have and they never will. It’s wishing upon a star and being utterly depressed and pissed that your wish didn’t come true. It is better to blame the things in life you can change than wishing people were just different.

                  Ultimately you are upset at people for not ignoring the obvious failings of the DNC rather than upset at the DNC for not fixing their shit. They keep courting the right wing, they keep running Republican talking points. Right now I tune into CN fucking N and get some democrat strategist blaming trans people for existing.

                  I cannot blame the people who didn’t vote. The DNC actively fucked them over, spit on them and told them shut up and stop protesting. That pisses people off and turns them away from you.

                  While I too wish we could do a lesser evil route here, that is wishing upon a star and no amount of shaming by you or the DNC will change that. Your yelling at a wall.

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        I don’t understand the “we were to small to matter” argument I’ve been seeing. If that’s true, why on Earth would you expect to matter enough to move the Democratic platform, or to shape society after leftists “burn it all down” (whatever that means)?

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      Should the DNC have put forward a candidate that was fairly selected with grass roots support among the wider voting population?

      No, it’s the voters who are at fault.

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        do you think there was enough time?

        use your fucking brain.

        Americans that purposely withheld votes cause this to happen. point. fucking. blank.

        when it actually mattered 20 million Americans abandoned their posts to protect democracy. full stop.

        when a house is on fire, do you save the stuff or the people first?

        Nevermind, you just want to blame the fire dept from not showing up faster.

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          do you think there was enough time?

          Yes. Other countries manage just fine.

          Americans that purposely withheld votes cause this to happen. point. fucking. blank.

          Maybe they didn’t purposely withhold votes. Maybe they were just not enthusiastic enough about the DNC candidate.

          20 million Americans abandoned their posts to protect democracy

          This is not democracy. It’s a corporatocracy that’s one candidate away from dictatorship.

          when a house is on fire, do you save the stuff or the people first

          The house is on fire because the two greedy landlords have refused to do basic maintenance and listen to the concerns of their tenants.

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            You just don’t get it. You still want to argue about why the house is on fire, instead of trying to save the people in the house.

            That’s the problem with ideological extremists. You just can’t admit that your idea sucks.

            I’ll admit that the Democrats suck.

            Can you admit that your socialist goals were unachievable in the previous political environment?

            Wait a second. 🤔 Was that your goal all along?

            No, if that was the case, you would be no better than the Nazis.

            right?

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              If the house wasn’t on fire we wouldn’t need to save the people. Your strategy will never save the people in the house. Neither landlord cares about the people, only the companies providing services.

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                again, you’re trying argue about if or how the house is on fire.

                it was on fire!

                now it’s burned the-fuck down. People, things, everything has burned.

                it’s too late.

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                  And the fault is the landlords in charge of the house. Not the people living in it.

                  The people wanted a fire extinguisher

                  One landlord was offering a wet blanket.

                  The other was offering petrol.

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        and voters failed at their job. they failed to recognize trump as a fascist and a direct threat to the continuation of our Republic.