• theolodis@feddit.org
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    4 days ago

    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.

      • NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.mlBanned from community
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        3 days ago

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

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        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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      3 days ago

      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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        3 days 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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      3 days 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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        3 days ago

        True, but do democrats improve more than the previous republican made it worse? It doesn’t feel like it.

        Also I wouldn’t use Healthcare as an example of something that works in the US

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          2 days ago

          No, because it’s easier to destroy than to build.

          Also Republicans have had complete control of government more than Democrats over the last few decades, so you’d expect Republican policy to be moved further.

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        3 days ago

        Also thousands of innocent civilians were murdered on the other side of the planet by those democrats, but they were brown so they didn’t count?

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      3 days ago

      You’re supposed to “improve living reality” before and after voting, not instead of… Voting doesn’t preclude protesting or working to that end.