• YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    2016 led to a massive removal of civil rights. 2020 was a vote for or against democracy itself. There was an enormous reason to vote.

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      2024, is going to be the same thing as 2020 as trump still has a chance, desantis out here just getting demolished by trump while RFK Jr is just trying to disenfranchise the democratic party as none of his views fit democrats nor do they fit moderate republicans.

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          True, that’s what screwed the liberal republicans in the 1914 election, ted roosevelt opened a new party after losing to taft, and split the liberal vote causing woodrow wilson to win.

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      1 year ago

      That’s what happens when democrats do the bare minimum when they get power while republicans can - for some reason - do so much more with the same power when they get in. People feeling that voting is pointless can see the trend. Baby steps forward when democrats get in and massive strides backward when republicans get in. The only way to actually move forward would be to get democrats in power in perpetuity which is impossible in our system. It’s designed that way. These people see two parties serving the rich first and foremost and can tell the natural consequence of that. That democrats throw a bone here or there changes little in the big picture.

      By the way, between two parties gatekeeping the entire process and having representatives that don’t actually represent the masses, we never had democracy.