• UsernameHere@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    This is what happens when the left doesn’t show up to vote because there aren’t any candidates far enough left in their opinion. The people that actually vote will be further right on the ideological spectrum and the right most candidate gets elected.

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      15 hours ago

      Fuck off with that. That’s what happens when people in the centre sacrifice everything to keep the liberal agenda going, even if it means fascism is the next step.

      Liberals always make compromises with their right, and never with their left. That is the problem. The left is warning of the problem for decades.

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        14 hours ago

        In a democracy it is the voters who decide. If leftists want to stay home because Kamala isn’t far enough left then we all get fascism.

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          14 hours ago

          As if the party and politiciens who scheme, organise and communicate had absolutely no responsibility whatsoever. This is a fraud: liberals are never going to admit their responsibility in the rise of fascism because their whole philosophy is about denying their responsibility in anything. Fuck that. Liberals had all powers for so long, and yet they still refuse to see their own responsibility and in the US are blaming the leftists for the Trump victory.

          Maybe don’t make all your strategy relying on leftists voting against fascism and sacrificing everything else next time.

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            13 hours ago

            It’s a politicians job to cater to the people who actually vote. Moderates vote so democrats cater to them.

            Republicans took voters from democrats by running ads that blamed “radical leftists democrats and their progressive policies” for inflation and every other problem under the sun.

            Along with the leftists that didn’t vote this was enough to give the win to facists.

            This is how US politics ratchets to the right.

            Because leftists don’t vote for politicians that must cater to more than just leftists to win.

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              Give me any reasonable source other than your ass that shows registered voters left of center stayed home instead of voting. I’d wager much more undecided centrists did, because they didn’t care which of the two right wing parties won. It would be an asspull as well, but mine at least has some reason behind it, while yours just blames the left for being bad and stupid and stinky.

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                It is based of the posts and comments here on Lenny form leftists claiming Harris lost because ‘the DNC wasn’t left enough’. Also all the leftists here on lemme leading up to the elections claiming that both sides are the same and that we should vote 3rd party.

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      18 hours ago

      It’s funny because on the right you’ve got the incels who won’t date a woman because she has a mole on her leg, but then on the left you’ve got people who won’t vote for someone who meets 95% of their criteria.

      What’s that quote, don’t let perfection stand in the way of progress or something