I'm shitting on the framing of "voting is the thing you do to take our country back" when that has failed since...

always. You get progress from fighting elected leaders, almost never from just electing them.

I vote and encourage others to do so too. But I vote because it's easy and can help the actual struggle a little, not because it will save me.

And they didn’t rig shit.

From the article: "a DNC lawyer said openly that if the party wanted to do things like the old days and pick a candidate over cigars in back rooms, it would be within their legal rights to do so"

Or from this article:

"Documents released by WikiLeaks in July 2016 showed that Schultz had acted as an agent of the Hillary Clinton campaign, colluding with Clinton as early as 2014 to set up the schedule of debates and primaries to assist her campaign. For example, given her frontrunner status, with no “major” challengers on the horizon until the surprise of Sanders, Clinton wanted few debates and a primary schedule that would allow her to clinch the nomination early.

In the final month of the contest, DNC officials leaned heavily on the Sanders campaign, seeking to pressure him into conceding the nomination, long before Clinton had collected the required majority. DNC vice-chairman Donna Brazile also assisted the Clinton campaign by leaking debate questions ahead of time."

But you believe whatever helps you sleep at night, Blue MAGA. I'm never voting Democrat again regardless of what someone on Lemmy tells me to do lol. They couldn't stand up against genocide, one of the greatest crimes against humanity, so they'll certainly never stand up to anything less horrific.

...Yes it is?