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it's good to look in the mirror and understand the material outcomes of voter behavior (lemmy.cafe)
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I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

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[+] -8 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Americans had one vote, and you guys continue to gaslight what it effectively was, for Trump or against Trump. What it wasn't was an opportunity to change the system by making a political statement, and now all anyone who has fallen for this rhetoric has done is cemented where it's heading to now. To change it you would have had to work outside the system. Now, even attempting to do so is far more likely to get you locked up. Congrats.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

    I’m a living furnace.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    if a political party wants a group of people’s votes, they should court those people. If they fail to do so, and those people choose not to vote for them, the political party only has itself to blame

    You seem to understand this, yet apparently cannot accept that you are not the only group that the party wants (read: needs) to court.

    As shitty as it is, the Israel lobby has a stranglehold on politics in the US. Both major parties are beholden to them, and need to bend over backwards to try to keep these groups happy, otherwise their campaign is dead in the water. That is facts.

    The reality is, in this case, those two groups are mutually exclusive. You cannot appease both (you will just end up alienating them all). One of those groups is much larger and far more influential than the other, and has the power and will to destroy your chances of winning.

    They courted the second group because its literally the only possible way they can win.

    Despite what lemmy might have you believe, leftist thought is not the default in most of the US.

    Become big enough and influential enough that you need to be courted, otherwise they have no reason to give a shit what you think.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Don't worry, the US looks like US voters won't have to worry about being able to have any effective choice for much longer.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    You are over reacting.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No amount of exposure to news will convince people like you of your narrative. But how does your mental lapse even work? First, you gaslight about Democrats, then you claim to be aware of what the GQP is going to do, and now after demonizing or recognizing as bad any of the two choices you have you now try to argue that you have a choice? Consistency is not your forté.

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