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[–] 62 points 17 hours ago (14 children)

"Both sides are the same, you shouldn't bother voting"

The bad guys win, things get worse

"See? I was right!"

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  • [–] 7 points 16 hours ago (11 children)

    The issue is that even if you voted for the democrat every time, due to them not improving the living situation considerably you'll always end up having the worse guy win at some point.

    The only thing that would really help would be to finally start improving the living reality of the people.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 hours ago*

    Last time the democrats had control of all three branches of government, americans got slightly better healthcare, and now insurance companies can't just refuse to cover conditions they claim you had before you got insurance. Also no more lifetime maximums.

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  • [–] 23 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

    That's why we need people to vote in the primaries.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

    The primaries that they can decide not to have? Or that the winner didn't really win?

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  • [–] 0 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

    at least one state had open primaries, I'd need to check if others do but we got ours from a ballot measure.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    Wow, how generous of them to give one state a primary, maybe.

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  • [–] 8 points 14 hours ago

    Wilding v. DNC is the court case where the DNC admitted that they don't have to abide by the primaries because they are a private entity and can nominate whomever they want.

    They admitted this in open court because so many people voted in the primaries for Bernie, and yet they nominated Hillary, that they could no longer hide this fact from the majority of the Democrat voting public.

    The truth was short lived though, as that case is almost completely memory holed, and everyone pretends like none of that happened a decade ago.

    I was there. I remember. Sure, vote in the primaries and vote for the "lesser evil", but we won't win anything without infiltrating the Democrat bureaucracy and forming unions and serious protests.

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  • [–] 10 points 15 hours ago* (1 child)

    Nah, if people cared about politics before Election Day we could be pushing for better candates in the primaries.

    We absolutely will continue to get the choice between a shit sandwich and a shit burrito every time if we keep refusing to take part in the ingredient selection.

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  • [–] 6 points 12 hours ago*

    I'm gonna need to stop you right there.

    Pushing for better candidates means defining a coherent set of qualities one wants in a candidate and then actually doing legwork for them instead of flinging shit everywhere from the lazy safety of your bedroom in your parents' house.

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