• DharkStare@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    That tactic was tried in 2016 and failed. The political party isn’t the one getting punished when you vote that way nor does it encourage them to change their ways.

    Changing the direction of a political party is a long, drawn out affair that requires sustained political action over the course of years.

    I have a feeling a lot of people who voted for Trump are going to be hurt by his policies and they’re going to be completely shocked as though this wasn’t known already. How could they possibly have known the person who bragged about hurting them when elected would actually hurt them when elected? /s

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      It doesn’t work because both political parties are servants to the same masters. Nothing will ever significantly change as long as that’s true. At least not without protracted hardship.

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        5 days ago

        Someone said something in the YouTube comments of a political video I was watching yesterday that really resonated with me:

        “I wish the Democrats could find someone who talks about billionaires the same way Donald Trump talks about immigrants.”

        Unlimited money in politics is the poison in our society. When money = speech, billionaires will always have the loudest voice in the room.

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            5 days ago

            Yes, but he’s far too old at this point to run. We don’t have anybody on the left who is a rockstar dem-socialist except for maybe AOC, and Democrats are probably not going to run another woman in the race for POTUS for another 50 years after these last two embarrassing defeats, so I wouldn’t get my hopes up for that.

            Meanwhile, the right is grooming an entire cadre of Trump’s successors so they can keep the MAGA gravy train rolling long after the evil bastard croaks.

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      They won’t be shocked. They’ll blame it on liberals and democrats and anyone else who had nothing to do with it… because nothing is ever their fault, it’s always a conspiracy by someone else.