• RangerJosey@lemmy.ml
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    12 days ago

    Republicans are always evil. They don’t do anything good. Ever. They’re a known quantity. That’s what we expect of them.

    We expect the Dems to be better. And they get the smoke when they fail at that. Cutting Corp taxes. Border crackdowns. Genocide. Those are things that should exclusively be the pervue of Republicans. If dems run to the right they will always lose because the right was so triggered by Obama that policy doesn’t matter to them whatsoever. It’s purely teamsport for them. You can’t appeal to them in any way. They see a (D) and vote against that person. Dems would never lose another election if they went only as far left as Bernie Sanders. We would have a perpetually booming economy and a high standard of living. But even that is far too far for the DNC Services Corp. So we get a gameshow host and a car salesman destroying everything.

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      12 days ago

      Republicans are always evil

      “Conservatives”, not Republicans. Around 100 years ago the style of both parties in the US was almost exactly reversed.

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      12 days ago

      Dems would never lose another election if they went only as far left as Bernie Sanders

      lol

      About half of America thought Kamala was too far left. The idea that Americans are secretly socialists just waiting for a real leftist candidate and are willing to tolerate progressively more fascistic politicians in the mean time is simply ridiculous and without any basis in reality.

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        12 days ago

        Not at all. She went too far right and a lot of people stayed home. Cuz one republican is as good as another. They both fuckin suck at literally everything. Except fucking up the economy. Republicans are great at that.

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          12 days ago

          She promised to institute a tax on unrealized gains.

          What constitutes “far right?”

          Trump has concentration camps. Biden didn’t. One assumes Kamala wouldn’t. If you don’t see a difference, it speaks to how privileged you are.

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          And do you have any actual reason I should believe that?

          “Well, lots of people would have voted for her if she put on a keffiyeh and sang l’Internationale.”

          Why should I believe that? There is just no basis to believe there is some secret American socialist majority.

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            12 days ago

            Wouldn’t call it a majority. But it’s a bloc that dems cannot win without. That bloc has also been lied to for literally our entire lives. Grown jaded. And won’t vote for empty promises anymore.