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"But I did refuse to vote, cuz that would just be perpetuating a broken system that doesn't give us any good choices."
"Oh... how's the system doing now?"
"Still broken."
"And the choices?"
"Still no good."
"So, it worked?"
"Not really, but I did get to just sit on my ass and post memes."I mean, you do that whether you vote or not. But when you try to tell people that they have to do more than vote, they don't like it.
“But I voted every 4 years for decades and it only got worse. Eventually I realised doing the same thing was never going to get a different result, especially when my voice was taken for granted”
“Did voting help”
“No, but I got to feel good for myself like I was on the winning team”
"Did voting help?"
"Yes, it got Trump kicked out of office in 2020. But the next time people decided that not voting would be the best option, so he got voted right back in."
You have to energize your base to get them to go to the polls. Maybe the Democrats should try running a candidate who doesn't suck.
"Fall in love, fall in line," indeed. Guess there's just no completing with a cult of personality.
Not when you have a candidate who supports genocide and was trying to court billionaires, moderate Republicans, and the Cheneys. Towards the end there, I thought, "There really is nothing appealing about her now."
Right at the beginning, there was so much hope and enthusiasm, but then the DNC and their consultants stepped in and ruined everything.
Mitigating damage isn't sexy, but it has to be done before real progress is even possible. Instead, we're running fast in the opposite direction.
They did, he won two terms, and they learned absolutely nothing from it.
Edit: apparently nobody thinks that Obama energized the base and got people to the polls.
Obama is by far the best president we've had in the past few decades, but overall he still sucks pretty badly. He was the first presidential candidate who got more than a billion dollars in donations for the race, at a time where Democrats were guaranteed to win no matter who they picked because of Bush. He's still "the establishment" that American voters hate so dearly.
Democrats should run a candidate more like FDR (who won FOUR terms as president) or Harry Truman or Jimmy Carter. A social democrat, an actual leftist-adjacent candidate. I would say someone like Bernie Sanders, but that ship has already sailed long ago... Socialist policies are popular with average Americans when nobody tells them they're socialist.
Unfortunately, the Democratic party leaders are owned by corporate money so that's not going to happen. We're gonna keep getting stupid shit like Kamala's "tough on crime" and "locking down the border" rhetoric, instead of "universal healthcare" and "zero-tuition education".
I was replying to a comment about the Dems needing to energize the base. Obama energized the base, and they learned nothing from it.
MAGA: That's right, we feel good about ourselves, that's the only consequence. Now shut up and get in the van.
Pelosi: That’s right, we feel morally better to you. Now go die in the street from easily preventable needs because a company lobbied me for you to die.
Trump: I'll be a dictator but only on day one.
Now shut up and get in the van
Just call the cops.
Cause that's the plan after banning guns right blue conservatives? Just call the cops. You know, the people who perpetrated the violence against the BLM protestors and more.