It benefits the security state for a Dem to take the helm and lull the masses back to sleep with sweet words while continuing 99% of Trump’s policies
I hate this so much
Nah I’m sticking third party. Not like the Dems care about my state anyway or that anyone worth a damn would run in the primaries here.
Yeah so a lot of Israel politicians and Republicans actually run as blue candidates.
That’s lazy thinking.
Unless the candidate is a progressive, then the establishment Dems won’t endorse them (unless the progressive wins, then suddenly they totally supported the progressive all along)
(no, I’m not saying don’t vote, just frustrated by the fucking hypocrisy)
Make sure you’re pressuring the establishment Democrats in your jurisdiction and the people making campaign contributions.
Yeah didn’t the Democratic Party take credit for some shit Mamdani got done? Seemed pretty shitty since they tried to stop him from getting elected.
Yeah didn’t the Democratic Party take credit for some shit Mamdani got done?
They sure tried.
*cough*
Mamdani
*cough*
Platner
*coughcough*
those were two of the big ones I had in mind, yeah
Don’t just vote Democrat, vote in the primaries.
vote in the primaries.
When the party runs primaries at all, they interfere with them every chance they get. Saying “jUsT vOtE iN tHe PrImArIeS” without acknowledging this paints the results of the party’s corruption as the will of the people.
Exactly. This times a million. We don’t vote in primaries and then get all surprised that the Democratic candidates resemble the folks who voted in the primaries.
Imo if you don’t vote in the primaries, you’ve forfeited your right to bitch about the candidates on the general ticket
Ya that’s a problem I have in my neck of the words. Everyone complains about who is on the General Election ticket and they just shrug their shoulders about voting in the Primary.
“You mean I have to vote, and then vote again? Ugh, I wasnt even planning to show up to the actual vote. Meh…it’ll all work out fine.”
If voting day was a holiday it would less of a problem
or just have longer and more convenient early voting? In Norway you can vote for at least a month at local public institutions
If voting day was a holiday, only people who get federal holidays off would get the day off. But it would be a great excuse to get rid of early voting.
Easy fix (that almost every other country uses): vote on Sunday.
Good thing no one has to work on Sundays. Easter Sunday is a federal holiday and there’s plenty of people who still have to work.
If voting day becomes a federal holiday, states that don’t like the idea of poor people voting will do away with early voting.
I have worked for companies that would rather pay out unemployment due to wrongful termination than give time off for voting.
If they don’t want you voting isn’t that a clue?
That’s not going to un-fire them.
Or it won’t and I’ll complain online which is even better than voting, right?
Are we acting again like the DNC cares about people voting in primaries?
I figured that bit was obvious, I was speaking more towards the Dem leadership’s hypocrisy. Again, absolutely not saying “don’t vote both sides reeeeee”
I was complementing, not contradicting 🙂. I agree.
Yup, drag the fuckin party left.
That would be a nice idea, but what do you do when incumbents run unopposed in the primary
Run against them.
(In theory. I wouldn’t do that either.)
Lol good luck with that
So by you’re logic, we’ll never get all the way there. So we’re safe.
Technically, this could move in the opposite direction.
It just never does, for some reason.
Extremists get their way, because they infiltrate a party of their choice and slowly move it towards their goals. They don’t care if the party they root for is 100% exactly what they want, they just manipulate it and its members long enough until it does. The same could be done by the opposing side, yet somehow they decided to stay at home to “teach the dems a lesson”, while waiting for the shining hero to save them all…
People might hate me for this, but i think it’s not just the maga cult that is affected by the broken educational system and centuries of exceptionalist propaganda. Political parties don’t change by doing nothing.
Maybe it never happens because the people who say they would vote for the “true” left don’t vote?
…the reason is that the other side does not “vote red no matter who” which forces the party to run people who represent them
no thnx, thats how you end up with bluemaga and the uniparty
Why am I zero percent surprised that the account calling Ukrainians Nazis also wants to put the Republicans in charge?
they never endorsed Republicans
Good idea, commenters. Lets keep fighting each other about the perfect candidate for an election that already happened. Surely this will change the situation were in
You got your perfect candidate as soon as no one who opposed genocide was running.
What about someone who opposes genocide but was on the Epstien list? Also perfect by your comment.
So someone who opposes genocide but agrees with racial segregation and removing homosexual rights is a perfect in your book?
You bigot
Lets keep fighting each other about the perfect candidate
I genuinely wonder what you think a primary involves.
Like, do all the candidates just hug it out?
for an election that already happened
Good job just leaving half a sentence out to fit your narrative. Very cool
I genuinely wonder what you think a primary involves.
It involves installing a pro-genocide candidate without asking anyone.
If you want to know why lefties lose you need only look at the comments critical of this post.
It’s absolutely valid to be displeased by how center or right-leaning the “left-wing” candidates are. But you have to accept that only supporting your perfect candidate is just going to keep pushing all candidates to the right as they lose.
Eww reddit content in my lemmy feed
Yay.
Election season.
People telling me to vote blue no matter who like I haven’t been doing that since I was 18.
And I’m fucking old.
Not to mention the arguments. People just mad everywhere.
I love politics and don’t hate this stupid game I’m forced to play and always lose.
Fuck the world.
I’m pretty jaded and cynical about the whole thing at this point, but I also don’t have a better idea. Idk, just so whatever you think is right.
Vote “Someone turns off the simulation” 2028
Get infinite Fetterman’s with this one weird trick.
Believing in politicians is a fool’s errand.
Elect people who are scared of you.
Watch out guy,s, new wave of astroturfing incoming!!!
The establishment does not like your comment.
Yep. Powered by AI.
Ugh
