• PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    The Democrats know perfectly well what they would have to do to defeat Trump. It’s blindingly obvious, after all.

    Is it? From a party whose voters want to go rightwards, now, wherein independents are already more right-leaning than that, and the only other major political coalition being even further right than that?

    “Just go left, we’ll totally win 😊” is the same line that got people fired up for Corbyn, who proceeded to make no headway in a country already much less right-wing than the US.

    Going left being better for the country does not equate to it being the path to electoral victory.

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      -Put conditions on any aid going to Israel.

      -Arrest trump and his sycophants in Congress for their litany of heinous crimes against the American people.

      -Force Biden not to run in 2024, have an actual primary and don’t put their thumb on the scale to nominate a corporate-owned bipartisan centrist.

      I’m pretty pro-democrat, but they could have done all that shit in a day and locked in the next 8 years of federal elections.

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      “Want to go rightwards” - are you fucking high?

      People want common sense approaches to social problems. The party stabbed Bernie Sanders twice in a row after shitting themselves because he was going to win the Democratic primary.

      More people I know who voted for Trump like and respect Sanders more than any other Dem candidate in the last decade because he’s authentic and true to himself and his beliefs. They don’t think his proposed solutions are going to work, but they’re willing to have a conversation and meet in the middle. The all or nothing ideologues running the Dems right now have no fucking idea what they’re doing, they’re trashing the joint - whether by malice or idiocy is moot at this point. Get these people OUT

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        “Want to go rightwards” - are you fucking high?

        No, I just have the misfortune of preferring unpleasant data over feel-good circlejerks about how we’re TOTALLY the silent majority, despite all evidence to the contrary.

        People want common sense approaches to social problems.

        You do realize this is the exact line that right-wingers say amongst themselves about why people REALLY want a far-right corporatocrat theocracy, right?

        More people I know who voted for Trump like and respect Sanders more than any other Dem candidate in the last decade because he’s authentic and true to himself and his beliefs.

        Unfortunately, that transfers approximately not-at-fucking-all to electoral success in swaying them to vote for anyone but the fascist ghouls, in the same way that Nazi voters always knew one “good Jew” or modern American right-wing voters always know one person who “deserves” public services or is a “good” member of the LGBT community who deserves their identity.

        They’ll vote for the Holocaust all the same, but at least you’ll get an asspat out of it, right?

        They don’t think his proposed solutions are going to work, but they’re willing to have a conversation and meet in the middle. The all or nothing ideologues running the Dem right now have no fucking idea what they’re doing, they’re trashing the joint - whether by malice or idiocy is moot at this point. Get these people OUT

        “The REAL problem is that the current Dems aren’t willing to compromise and meet in the middle with the fascists!”

        Lord.

        And you say this is a LESS far-right solution?

        Jesus Christ.

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          9 hours ago

          Well ACKSHULLY wanting common sense solutions is right wing coded!

          Another 10 years of losses for you friend, gl. The vibe has been altered, these dipshit takes are going to deliver conservative rule for the next generation.

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            Well ACKSHULLY wanting common sense solutions is right wing coded!

            Have you ever had a discussion with conservatives about what they think is ‘common sense’?

            Have you ever paid attention to how often conservatives discuss ‘common sense’ solutions that appeal to people who want to think that their deeply politicized views aren’t political at all?

            Do you know what ‘common sense’ is to fucking begin with?

            Fuck’s sake. It’s like talking to someone who’s voted GOP for the past 50 years of their fucking life but insists that they’re a ‘moderate’.

            Suppose you’re not going to answer about how Dems being ‘ideologues’ right now who won’t compromise, and how ‘meeting in the middle’ with fascist voters will totally be a less right-wing solution.

            Or about the data explicitly proving you wrong. But I guess I must be high.