• GiveMemes@jlai.lu
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    9 days ago

    So your argument is that she got 14 million less votes than Joe specifically because she’s a woman? Because I struggle to see how it could be the “deciding factor” otherwise.

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      9 days ago

      I agree, it’s an oversimplification. The Democratic party has become the party of ‘going back to business as usual’ and refuses to lower it’s commitment to the corporations that fund it. Trump won 2016 because he was a genuine establishment shaker.

      Leftists need a rouge candidate who refuses to bow. Someone who shows promise of CHANGE and not business as usual.

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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        8 days ago

        Leftists need a rouge candidate who refuses to bow. Someone who shows promise of CHANGE and not business as usual.

        Democrats have proven that they will sue to strip such a person from the ballot. How can they claim to defend democracy while hiding behind First-past-the-post voting?

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          8 days ago

          Because first past the post voting is a form of democracy, whether or not either of us have qualms with it. What is not democratic, in any way, shape, or form, is disrupting the peaceful transfer of power, which Trump has literally done, not to mention the intended destruction of the federal system under project 2025, which based on your response, I can tell you’ve done no research into.

          Are the parties both bad? Sure. Is one objectively and provably better for the democratic institutions of the US? Abso-fucking-lutely.

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            8 hours ago

            A lot of people criticized Dems for exactly this when Harris was appointed after Biden dropped out.