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  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldYou were warned
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    3 days ago

    Yeah. Trump supporters are stupid and loud. But they are also engaged. They’re engaged with an alternate reality entirely devoid of facts, but engaged.

    I’m much more concerned about the masses that are too stupid to understand what a democracy is, why it’s important, and therefore, are totally disengaged.

    That level of carelessness is outright terrifying.

    Democracy is a vaccine we must continue to develop and administer on a regular basis or we will succumb to the cancer that is…well… anything else.












  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldReagan...
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    12 days ago

    A lot of younger people simply don’t know that the age we all consider the golden age of middle class America (40s-70s) was so because we TAXED THE FUCK OUT OF THE WEALTHY. As we should.

    If we do not return to doing so, our quality of life is going to continue to decline indefinitely.

    TAX. THE. FUCKING. RICH.

    DON’T VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT DOESN’T RUN ON TAXING THE RICH.



  • People wanting to start 3rd parties etc, because the Democrats suck so bad.

    Great way to have Republicans in power for the rest of our lives. I can’t see how anyone who voted 3rd party in November can STILL think it was a smart decision despite immediately finding out it wasn’t.

    One of the most frustrating things in my whole life is how people simply cannot grasp that you cannot cheat code your way to voting a 3rd party presidential candidate into the Oval Office. Like, is it that difficult for people to understand that parties have to start winning locally, then getting representatives in state offices, then in the House and Senate, before a new party could even stand a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning a presidential election?

    These fools need to stop fucking around with presidential election votes and start voting for a 3rd party in their local/state elections. Totally fucking pointless to vote 3rd party for president. You’re literally just ushering in Republican presidents by doing that shit.

    As you said, it’s far more realistic to put pressure on the Democratic party to change than engage in a fantasy scenario where everyone holds hands and votes a 3rd party into power out of literally nowhere.

    But, as you can see by your downvotes, people just want what they want right now. Logic be damned.

    “Logic be damned.”

    That’ll be inscribed on America’s tombstone.






  • Honestly, they probably won’t.

    Why?

    Because that’s a non-partisan red line that would initiate an actual violent revolution. They’ll back off from doing it so they can keep dismantling our democracy and filling their wallets without us getting in the way. Because Americans are just awake enough to notice cuts to SS but asleep enough not to notice our democracy dying and the age of the oligarch being ushered in.