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The dems are sliding right because they arent voting dem (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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Lemmylibs: "We can fix him! I don't know how, but you all must vote for him!"
Him: "How can I better appeal to the block that swore never to vote for me?"

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[–] 68 points 8 months ago (8 children)

The Democratic Party has really been a right wing party this whole time.

America hasn’t ever really had a real left wing

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    oh yeah they're about to slide right from neocon-warhawk to SS-Totenkopf tattoos but still you have libs crying about "vote in the primaries!!"

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    "Vote in the primaries!"

    "I do but the party actively undermines democracy during those. Repeatedly, openly, and unashamedly."

    "Yeah well they're allowed to just choose whoever they want anyway so you have to vote for the neoliberal in the general."

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    You can vote but not be critical of any candidate or else you are just trying to help the republicans win....

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    Seriously, so fucking infuriating. How am I supposed to not be critical of the people who handed Donald Trump the presidency twice? And the first time they literally directed media outlets to prop him up in the Republican primary.

    Right, I'm the problem with my one vote in a state that's gonna give their electors to the Democrat no matter what I do (but I vote for the shitty neoliberal in the general anyway). Not the elite class who gave our country to the fascists because that's what their donors wanted.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    You can vote but not be critical of any candidate

    before or after the election or ever.

    Offer void for anyone left of party leadership. Even bigoted attacks were perfectly fine against Mamdani. But say that Harris shouldn't have supported genocide and centrists will insist that you personally coronated trump.

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  • [+] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    You're kinda proving their point lol. If you consider the US during that era to even slightly lean left then you have no familiarity with left wing policy and ideology...plus there was the whole, "oh shit, Communism is growing in popularity, quick give them the most bare bones social safety net so they don't get angry enough to demand actual socialism" thing before they could get the cold war facade up.

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