• Wren@lemmy.worldM
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    Do you feel those 90 million were supposed to vote Dem?

    They were supposed to vote against a fascist. I honestly don’t care who the dems put against Trump, those 90 million people should have known well enough to vote against a fascist dictator that told them exactly what he was going to do.

    This isn’t on the democrats.

    If an evil genie tells you that you have a choice between cancer and a broken knee, you take the broken knee and hobble yourself home.

    You don’t let the evil genie chose, because I’ll always be the cancer. There isn t a choice to not decide. This is how it is. Yes, it needs to change, but pouting and withholding a vote isn’t how that’s done.

    Yeah. The democrats suck. But they’re better than cancer.

    • EightBitBlood@lemmy.world
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      il y a 22 heures

      In a two party system, if the choices are between cancer and fascism, then cancer is the only party that’s going to mention the other is fascist.

      So it’s up to cancer to make it clear who the fascist is. Because the fascist is going to lie about it, as that’s what fascists do.

      Yet they failed to convince 90 million people that the fascist was indeed going to be fascist.

      You blame the 90 million.

      I blame the only political party we have that’s actually responsible for making that clear.

      Because it’s not the GOP. Or our media. They do the opposite.

      So when it comes to what is and isn’t fascism in this country, the ONLY party that CAN be making it clear is the Democrats.

      And they failed.

      There was and still is a firehose of disinformation, and Dems just assumed that the majority of Americans would be smart enough to not fall for the fascists lies coming from it.

      So they did little to counter act it. Because they assumed America wouldn’t fall for it.

      Just like they did little to counter the effects and damage from Trumps first term. Biden just assumed Trump wouldn’t win again, so did little to nothing effective in those 4 years that would protect us against round 2.

      Just like Hillary assumed Trump just wouldn’t win the first time, so did little to counter his messaging.

      Ignoring Trump, and assuming America knows better, is literally how the Democrats got Trump elected both times.

      America clearly doesn’t know better. America is NOT as smart as Democrats have continually assumed the last decade.

      All Democrats have to do is talk at a 5th grade level to America, but that would require treating Trump like an actual threat instead of a joke.

      They failed in everyway to treat Trump like the fascist threat he was, so those 90 million fell for the fascists bullshit instead.

      So Democrats definitley get the blame for not being able to convince 90 million that a fascist lying conman was indeed a fascist lying conman. It wasn’t hard, they just didn’t care to try the way they should, (talking simply) as the assumed they didn’t need to (for the 3rd time).

      Would they have been better than the fascists? Absolutely. But they clearly care more about their BS perceived norms than beating fascism. Otherwise we wouldn’t have a fascist in office again.

      They learned nothing from the first time, then sat on their hands for the second, and just assumed people knew not to vote Trump. It’s honestly embarrassing that they failed such an easy task by simply being too arrogant to counter any of Trumps campaigns with equally simple messaging TWICE.

      All Dems had to do was talk like Trump, and some of those 90 million would have listened.

    • Dragonstaff@leminal.space
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      If your opponent is cancer and 90 million people shrug and go about their day, you have to wonder what you’re doing wrong. And not trying to fix it is downright criminal.

      • Wren@lemmy.worldM
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        If only if onlys won elections- this wouldn’t be happening. But we had our choices. That was that. People chose not to participate and let others make that decision for them.

        That is where we are now.