• @BlackSpasmodic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    321 year ago
    1. Your vote for president likely doesn’t matter unless you live in one of a few states
    2. The Dems love that they can just scare you into voting against Trump rather than doing things that would excite you to vote Blue
    3. They love you caring more about Trump than Gaza or Cop City or Haiti
    4. There’s WAY more to vote for than President
    • @Cosmos7349@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Mostly agree, but you be saying #2 like scare tactics isn’t the standard practice for mostly all politicians in every party these days (not even just in the USA, but all around the globe). Trying to make that a trait of a specific party feels kinda disingenuous to me.

      • @crusa187@lemmy.ml
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        61 year ago

        Dems got stuck on fear-based politics in 2015 and never recovered.

        This is of course secondary to their primary strategy of fear-based fundraising. They’re a fundraising organization first and foremost. They forgot how to be actual political representatives long before 2015.

      • @BlackSpasmodic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        11 year ago

        You’re right it’s not specific to them. I’m talking about Dems because the thread is about liberals feeling obligated to vote Dem to stop Trump.

        I might argue that using fear to gain/maintain power is a thing that all powerful people/institutions do. It might be a feature of all hierarchical power structures. Anyway, it’s gross every time

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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      71 year ago

      If you need anything more than “the other candidate is a fascist running openly on a platform of doing fascism” to do everything you can to vote and get others out to the polls too, you may turn your ally badge in and sit at the table with all the other fascists.

      Formal proposal that all the grammable marches and rallies post security that check for proof of having voted to get let in, sounds like a club bouncer, but these people are coming hard with “bachelorette party at a gay club” energy anyways.

      • @BlackSpasmodic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        21 year ago

        You assume that voting will make a difference but it won’t. Not only because most of us don’t live in swing states but also, because voting doesn’t change American politics. Biden showed us that. Hell, Obama showed us, America is still gonna be it’s ugly self no matter who’s in the oval office.

        I refuse to keep pretending that a blue guy in charge is meaningfully better. They just talk nicer and give the people here a couple more things.

        I want everyone to demand what they actually want, not settle for the guys who seem better than those other douchebags.

        Your proposal is terrible lol