• tym@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    I’m curious what qualifies a “democratic voter” as worthy of ridicule - can you give me some examples?

    Much like an outsider looking in at your country (whatever it is), there’s a ton of nuance to every culture. For example; I’m a decendant of a family that settled in New England in 1603 and I can’t fucking stand the 2 party system. I’ve always wanted to abolish lobbyism, set term limits on congress critters, and outlaw insider trading for both politicians and their immediate families - but my average neighbor gets exhausted if I talk about anything but the simple stupid pleasures. I identify as an adult with compassion and a vision for my kids’ future so that makes me a defacto dem because anything else is spoon-feeding the grand ole wizard party a victory.

    Tons of us have been trapped here our whole lives and have tried to organize over the years. I know it seems like all finger-pointing and inaction from afar, but it’s more nuanced than that.

    Edit: Not to mention that civil unrest is the whole point at this stage. Project 2025 has the penultimate goal of suspending the writ of habeus corpus by June 30th while simultaneously deploying the US Military as a civilian police force.

    https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-i/clauses/763

    • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      Everybody who didn’t vote uncommitted in the primaries to protest against having Biden pushed down onto people by the DNC. Everybody who defended voting for Biden and lying about his mental state, when there has been plenty of videos where Biden clearly was not at the mental capacities needed to be president another 4 years.
      Everybody who immediately jumped on the Harris bandwagon, instead of demanding proper primaries, so the DNC and candidate can actually get in touch with the problems of normal people, instead of the interests of their billionaire donors.
      Everybody who didn’t demand the Democrats to stop the support for the genocide in Gaza immediately and tried to justify genocide with “well this is the less of two genocides, so it’s okay.”
      Everybody that celebrated billionaire celebrities like Taylor Swift coming out in favor of Harris, like these billionaires aren’t part of the same oligarchy that is fucking over normal people. Everybody that didn’t tell the fucking war criminal muss murder scumbags that are the Cheneys to fuck right off and get the people thrown out of Harris campaign, that had this ingenious idea.

      If you made a Venn-Diagram there would be a lot of overlap in the middle, but all of these aspects contributed to the Democrats consistently alienating voters.