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[–] 9 points 10 hours ago* (1 child)

Lol this sounds like a similar argument to using paper straws to save the planet. If climate change gets worse its because we as individuals didn't use enough of them. Nevermind about all those corporations spewing out more pollution than we could in a million lifetimes.

You're already framing an excuse for poor Democratic performance before they've even taken office by claiming that it's our responsibility to make them do a good job despite decades of proof demonstrating that they ignore the electorate just as much as Republicans do.

This makes a nice double whammy when combined with those arguments from people who claim that criticizing the Democratic party means you must secretly be some Republican operative or working for a Russian disinformation farm. No true Democrat would ever criticize the party for poor performance, so your criticism is disregarded, but when the party performs poorly it's because we didn't criticize them enough.

The blame always comes back to us and must never be directed at the people who voluntarily ran a campaign to become a representative of the public even when they ignore the public they campaigned to represent. Then 2-4 years later they get kicked out of office for poor performance, and 2-4 years after that we must elect them back into office because of the other party's poor performance. On and on and on it goes...

Just don't ever think about voting for any party but these two because can you just imagine how badly things might get if one of the two parties that have been running the country into the ground for hundreds of years isn't at the helm? It'd be pandemonium!

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  • [–] 3 points 8 hours ago

    It’s not about blame. it’s about utilizing the system most effectively.

    I think it’s fair to point out when they’re not listening, but we can’t be complacent. We need to guide them. They’re not our leaders, they’re our representation.

    What we’ve got now is because people thought we were done building society, and the system would just work for us. So it was exploited.

    The election was the beginning, not the end.

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