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[+] -20 points 3 days ago* (10 children)

It's a fair point. We don't have much leverage in a two party system. Letters to reps aren't going to cut it, protesting against the "good" guys just as hard as we did against the fascists is basically the only option at this point.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    Voting in primaries is for voting with your feelings. Voting in the generals is for voting with your head. Basically vote in primaries if you don't like how the dems did and vote blue no matter who in the generals.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    I'm saying that we need to properly pressure them instead of expecting them to save us willingly. Waiting for the next round of primaries isn't enough, they simply won't make the needed choices if they don't have to.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    Well that's entirely the point then, isn't it? Tell them that if they don't do their job properly, then they'll be fired. I don't get why that's such a crazy hard to understand concept, but whatever makes it so hard to understand is probably what got people like Trump into office in the first place

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago

    If you mean during the primaries, yes. If you mean when it's Democrats vs Republicans, then it's an empty threat because not voting is monumentally stupid and hurts us more than it hurts them.

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  • [+] -7 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Exactly that's what got Trump in office, was firing democrats.

    So... again what do you expect people to do?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    No, it's not a fair point. You seem to either not fully understand what voting is or how elections work. The 'leverage' is that if they don't do what we want them to do, they lose their jobs. I wish there were more severe consequences to abandoning the voters, but we don't have those yet and the only way to get there is to vote

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