• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Even if she said she was going to have all Republicans in her cabinet, she would still have been a better option than Trump and the lunatics he is hiring. Nothing the Democrats did mattered. They would have lost regardless.

    • acargitz@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      Better option than this mess? Sure.

      But beyond that, if you need to wallow in doomerism, suit yourself. But I roundly disagree with this fatalism. The Democrats could have actually campaigned on the left. A few years ago Joe Rogan was hosting and supporting Bernie. This cycle, he was lost to the fascists. It is very clear that the Democratic party tried a strategy based around enticing moderate Republicans. They have been doing this for years. You as a voter, need to face this reality: the Democratic party strategy …failed. They need a different one. But suit yourself with self-defeating fatalism if you want.

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        2 days ago

        They really are taking to this idea that if they beat themselves up as the idea of the voter it will somehow lessen the pain or something? It’s weird cause it’s just wallow without action to take. I’m saddened that people are still there when actions need to start happening.

      • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        It’s easy to say that moving to the left would be more successful, but I doubt it would. 75 million Americans voted for blatant fascism and millions more didn’t care enough to bother voting one way or another. People have lost hope that things will ever get better.

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          1 day ago

          Maybe the wouldn’t or maybe they would. The only think we know for sure is they didn’t vote for the center-right version. That failed. Time to try the other one.