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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don’t understand why people think the democrats losing to someone farther right would make them move left. Doesn’t it make more sense they’d move to the right since that’s what more voters wanted?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

So you admit Democrats are just fascist light? Sounds like the fight is over then. We lost.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That’s not what I said. Moderate dems need to lose to progressives and not to conservatives to move the party left.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It'll never happen. Too many primary voters are specifically out to fuck over leftist and progressives. Then they turn around and cry foul when we refuse to show up in the general. Fuck them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe not every democrat is a progressive and that’s why they vote against them? That’s democracy, not everyone agrees with you and sometimes you don’t get your way. Gotta work to change people’s mind and not just say fuck ‘em.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Maybe not every democrat is a progressive and that’s why they vote against them?

Then they're responsible for getting their piece of shit candidate elected in the general.

Gotta work to change people’s mind and not just say fuck ‘em.

They won't. And I'm not going to keep propping up their procorporate trash candidate. If they want my vote they'll have to hold their nose in the primaries and vote for someone more progressive or leftist than they'd like.

Don't like it? That’s democracy, not everyone agrees with you and sometimes you don’t get your way.