Democracy supporters have to win every single time, while the fascists only have to win once. This is not a sustainable situation. We have to do what is necessary in a way that’s a lot more permanent than just winning an election.
That requires carrying this energy past the election cycle, regardless of the differences we may have on opinion, and coming together in agreement.
Historically, the Left has been rather poor at banding together. We’re more likely to argue than get things done most of the time. So it’ll be an uphill battle for leaders of smaller groups across the Nation. First though, we need to make it past this hurdle.
Voting for Democrats isn’t even voting for the Left anymore. More Rlite.
It hasn’t been a left wing vote for a long time, if ever.
It’s still a choice that we should strive to utilize. Not doing so may mean not having that choice, or the illusion of one. I do agree though, it’s about time we shifted things back towards a better life for everyone.
Indeed, the first step would be to dump the Electoral College.
Preferably out the back of a C130 just off the coast of Florida.
An AC-130U. We can play a game of see how many times you can hit it with the side guns before it lands in the ocean.
That’s only going to happen if the side in favor of democracy is given a decisive victory. Squeaking out another win isn’t going to be enough.
Did Harris have any pro-democracy stuff in her platform, like ending FPTP or the Electoral College? Trump campaigned on bad election reforms like ID requirements and same-day voting.
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Fascism was defeated because of the Allies, led by the US, the country with the most powerful military in the world by a large margin. Who’s going to defeat the US if it goes full fascist?
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Fascist governments always collapse eventually because of loyalty over competence, but the thought of the damage a powerful country like the US would do before that collapse is terrifying.
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RIP democracy :(
I’m sorry we failed you Bernie.
Oligarchs have all the power now
Except they’ve always had all the power. The money gets what the money wants.
That’s not true, we had a good run from the forties until I was born in the eighties. A whole forty years of some amount of power!
Democratic party is fucking useless. We will never be free unless we rid ourselves of legalized corruption.
Poor take. Truthfully, the people want hate. That’s what trump ran on and promised.
This isn’t about policy or likeability or whatever. This is what people want and they proved it. Stop blaming the Democrat party and blame what this country and its people are instead.
This kind of take is why we’re stupid.
Sorry we let you down, Bernie, there are just too many shitheads now.
don’t make me put on the mittens
What democracy?
The Democrats and Republicans fought harder to keep the party I support off the ballot than they did to stop each other from getting elected.
We did it! Good job!
It wasn’t even close
It was very close. As predicted, the battleground states all came down to 1 or 2 percent. Everything fell within the margins of error.
Unfortunately, the 1 or 2 percent leans all went in Trump’s direction.
We still got mid terms
