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Democrats worry their most loyal voters won’t turn out for Biden in 2024
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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I’m honestly surprised that this is such a popular take. You know how your country works right? How the Supreme Court works?
If nothing else, is your Ideological purity worth 4 years of conservative (read batshit crazy fundies) appointments to the federal bench?
From where I’m standing, outside your political system, it seems like a colossally stupid argument. Unless of course you are agitating for the fundies.
Just go vote Democrat. Then lie about it to your friends if you have to, and hope they do the same.
Politics are a bus stop. They don't get you exactly to where you want to go but they'll get you close. I was very bummed about the Bernie situation and wish we had an actual left party but I'll vote Democrat.
In general, yes.
But especially now, refusing to vote strategically when the other major party nominee is a known authoritarian that already (among other things) tried to violently overthrow the constitutional order, seems just insane to me.
You don’t have too put up lawn signs or phone bank or whatever. Just hold your nose and tick the box of the major party candidate guy that is not an active threat democracy.
i don't think there's going to be one.
Oh come off it.
oh, you think biden's pentagon is spreading democracy in Africa?
Of course not.
But you’re not replying to my argument. You just crop out a sentence that allows you to trot out your hobby horse and go to town.
So please ride it all you want, preferably a long way from this thread.
no. I'm not going to let it be implied that Biden isn't an active threat to democracy.
Clop clop.
this isn't a rebuttal.
I’m giving you the same courtesy you showed me by ignoring my argument and going off on an unrelated tangent.
Clop clop motherfucker.
this, also, is not a rebuttal.
I don’t owe you one.
Keep clop clopping hobby horse boy.
One bus is heading downhill with the accelerator floored. The other bus is facing uphill and revving its engine like mad, but is coasting downhill in neutral.
Those of us walking uphill get to gripe.