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[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The "best case scenario" is that we revert to the pre 2020 speed of our slide in to fascism. That's not better, now the water is boiling fast enough for the frogs to notice. Given the number of people utterly incapable of putting together what happened 1992-2016 that made Trump not only viable but inevitable, I'm pretty sure at the old temperature most of you would never have tried to jump out of the pot.

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[–] edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 week ago (5 children)

Except the democratic party isn't an ideological monolith like the republican party is. And if progressives voted for progressives in primaries they could transform the democratic party into a leftist ideological monolith but y'all don't vote. I don't know how old you are but the republicans didn't used to be full fuckin nazis. Ideological nutjobs tea partied the republicans and turned into the maga Trump party. Progressives could easily do that to the Dems but you won't vote, and now you're literally arguing the actual collapse of our country is better than voting for harm reduction. You are a privileged fucking clown. Letting the fascists win isn't a solution. I hope you're at least gonna be first in line to feel the consequences of your actions, because I will be. MAGAt traitor trash.

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[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Except the democratic party isn't an ideological monolith like the republican party is.

Now do it with the practical side of politics instead of rhetoric. The people controlling the levers of power in the party absolutely are an ideological monolith. They're all Wall St friendly and beholden to AIPAC and the Third Way Foundation.

But don't take my word for it. Go get involved in your local Democratic party. The actual administrative stuff that happens between elections. When you work closely enough with the party to understand how the party actually functions, you'll understand why the Democratic Party is ultimately as much a part of the problem as the Republicans are. The point of the Democratic Party is to capture and neuter any social movements that threaten the Wall St agenda, and to give people enough faith in the system that they won't revolt.

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