• Empricorn@feddit.nl
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      4 days ago

      No, no. “The non-fascist candidate wasn’t exciting enough! It’s the Democrats’ fault I stayed home while my country burned.”

      • HungLikeAHoers2010@lemmy.ca
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        People like those who claim they’re leftists are FAKE leftists as far as I’m concerned. They had a choice between Coca-Cola and hydrochloric acid, but didn’t vote for Coca-Cola because they wanted natural spring water. Any real leftist would vote for the lesser of two evils if placed in that situation.

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          Those specific types of leftists want accelerationism the us. They will encourage you not to vote even. They want trump because they think that Trump will crash the government and the US will either be crippled and unable to exert imperialism or the people will become so disenfranchised they’ll experience class consciousness and there will be a glorious socialist revolution. What they don’t realize is that companies will gobble up power and the US will become corporate feudalism that’s even more awful on the global stage and few citizens will fight back as long as they feel personally safe and can eat.

      • VerifiedSource@sh.itjust.works
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        The democrats have failed repeatedly to convince the American people of an alternative vision for the future. Obama provided a vision, but the execution fell short. Not Trump wasn’t good enough of an idea.

    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Not entirely. Remember, even if 2 to 4 million more people vote for Democrats you can still get a Repulican in the US due to their voting system favouring land over people. It never really was a true democracy, they always needed 55-60% of actual votes for the lesser evil to actually get the lesser of the two evil.

    • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      This is such a gross oversimplification, and the fact it keeps getting repeated is the reason I have no faith in the American people getting out of this. This coup has been in the making for decades, but everyone points to the last 5 minutes as the key point we fucked up.

    • Ledivin@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      But then they would’ve been voting for genocide! You know, instead of a worse genocide and fascism!