• CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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    22 days ago

    Won’t happen until both the Republican and Democratic parties are dead and buried. As we’ve seen over the last decade, they’re more than happy to work together if it means keeping progressives out of office.

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    22 days ago

    Elections 2028:

    90y old republican with dementia, salivating to the microphone

    Vs

    88y old democrat on wheelchair, suffering terminal cancer, taking painkillers directly to the bloodstream.

    Unfortunately during the debate, republican saliva shorted out cables in the microphone, while Democrat fell into coma.

    Elections are won by the republican, democrats are weeping on bluesky, wondering why people voted for a shitty president again.

    The End.

  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    21 days ago

    Progressive Americans have to defeat the mini-boss (DNC) before they can on the main-boss (GOP).

    There’s a chance the GOP can crack open for a Progressive popout but the MTGs and such already got there years ago so I wager thats about at 0% odds now.

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    22 days ago

    Just look at who’s been winning all the special elections. The fascists either lock this shit in like Russia in the next 3 years or they’re fucked

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      They will be fucked for exactly 2 election cycles. 2026 and 2028. 2030 will be a red wave year. Calling it now.

      Voters have memories worse than goldfish. Dems will be a shoe for the white house in 28 but will be lucky to hold it in 32 unless something historically tragic in the scale 9-11 or COVID happens in 31.

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    22 days ago

    It’ll be the progressive that gets elected to preside over the decline. Once we’ve been bled dry and the other nation(s) take the world lead, like China.

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    21 days ago

    We might be able to get a progressive to run as an independent in the general. If they try to go through the democratic party they will be backstabbed, while also inheriting all the DNC’s baggage and idiocy.

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    22 days ago

    Yes. If you look at the last couple of elections and when they were born you’ll notice an outlier that got that vote because they promised something different.

    It’s doable, but it seems like the current voters like people born at the tail end of WW2.

  • Devolution@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    The Puritans were elder dipshits.

    Sure the founding father’s were progressive for their time (minus the misogyny, classism, and slave owning), but the Puritans never went away.

    They just became the Know Nothing’s, the Confederates, the Dixiecrats, the moral majority, the tea party, and now MAGA.

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    21 days ago

    Yes but it will be after a catastrophe that devastates the economy like another great depression, civil war or world war.