• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    18 hours ago

    Sure, but Democratic voters are not democratic leadership. If you have a problem with Democratic leadership, tell it to them. Voters don’t benefit from Democrats losing to Republicans.

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      17 hours ago

      I actually spent a lot of time trying to communicate just that to my democratic representative, along with hundreds of other constituents. ‘Democratic leadership’ was completely unresponsive.

      At this point I’m not going to waste more of my time talking to people with no interest in listening.

      Voters don’t benefit from Democrats losing to Republicans.

      Maybe ‘democratic leadership’ should fuck off (ideally forever) so that the republicans stop winning.

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          11 hours ago

          If the current crop of democrats were replaced with principled people who don’t arm genocides and tank the economy, voters would actually have a reason to vote for them instead of staying home or voting Republican. This isn’t that complicated.

          That said, I’m not surprised you seem to have a hard time envisioning victory without catering to genocidal warmongers. It’s an unfortunately common condition.

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            6 hours ago

            I don’t disagree on principle, but that “if” is doing industrial machinery level heavy lifting. I’d love to live in that world, I really truly would. Unfortunately, I have to live in this one. I’m over here trying to make lemonade comrade, and you’re trying to make strawberry shortcake with strawberries we don’t have.

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              6 hours ago

              Don’t mistake me articulating a vision with me believing that it is immenant.

              Electoral success tends to follow movements and movements tend to hinge on material reality, ie what the conditions on the ground are

              To play on your analogy, i don’t think we’re going to be able to survive on lemonade and whenever i suggest trying to plant some beans the lemonade fans accuse me of wanting to cut the lemon tree down