• vandsjov@feddit.dk
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      4 hours ago

      They probably told people, however media and the people where busy watching the Trump freak show, and listening to all the lies about of how bad the Democrats are.

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      That is irrelevant. You don’t seem to understand the point I’m making. I’m saying the average American hears critiques and only process them at surface level and forms a black and white evaluation on that basis. This is incredibly fucking stupid.

      And knowing that there are so many American’s like this: it is legitimately going to make fewer Americans vote to prevent the fascist from taking power (and did!) because they’ll feel like they’re aligning with the “bad guys” if you critique Democrats in public without a load of additional context (that some wont even absorb anyway if you provided it).

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        Why should people vote for a party that do not even want to resolve the most pressing issues that affect their daily lives?

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            “The masses” do not think like this. They don’t even know what that word means except in a passing negative emotional reaction.

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            To prevent fascists from taking over, we should elect corpos who will constantly push us on a rightward trajectory towards fascism.

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              Instead, we should sprint full speed into fascism. That’ll show the fascists!

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            And what are the Democrats doing to prevent that? Offer Medicare for all? Increase federal wage? Increase taxes on the rich? Offer free college? Build social housing?

            “People who are hungry, people who are out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”- Franklin Roosevelt

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        I feel like your missing that many people do see the Democrats as the bad guys, and I can’t say that I blame them. We recently asked them to say “Genocide is bad, and we won’t support it” and they wouldn’t. They are the baddies

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          I feel like your missing that many people do see the Democrats as the bad guys

          No I’m not. I literally said that they would. And I hold that such a black and white surface level evaluation of the situation and to then choose not to vote is aggressively fucking stupid.

          And TBH, I don’t want to help stupid people if they’re going to keep dragging me into the mud. I’ve worried about politics for most of my life and worked to make things better for other people but this election has freed me to focus on helping mostly just myself and a few close people that align with me. Most other people are hopeless. I’m done swimming up a waterfall.