I noticed you kind of hop-skipped past the whole down-ballot races thing, didn’t ya?

You know. The California races that in the end decided who won the House? Sure hope their district had absolutely zero relevance whatsoever lol.

Forgetting the fact that they seemed vocal enough in trying to stop others from voting for Harris, too. But I’ll eat my words if they can link a comment of theirs where they advised battleground voters to support Harris.

haha!

Trump says, “Finish the job” to Bibi while transferring the embassy to Jerusalem and you think you’re going to get more results with Trump than Harris? Even if at best the same, as the Venn Diagram proves, it’s deeply illogical. You drank the online Russian vodka and now more Palestinian blood is on your hands.

(Forgetting the obvious fact that you’ve got Ukrainian blood on your hands now, too, since Ukrainians also wanted Harris over Trump)

The kids want to “fight fascists! >:(” but can’t bother educating themselves on the issues enough to realize they’ve fallen for the classic — textbook even — BoTh SiDeS fallacy that is peddled every election cycle.

Not true. People like you contributed to giving Trump the popular vote and a broader mandate, leaving aside down-ballot Congressional races.

By the way is this you in this picture?

Meanwhile: https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-cancels-sanctions-far-right-israeli-settlers-occupied-west-bank-2025-01-21/

In a way, you too are now complicit in exacerbating genocide.

Ok but I just want to clarify before we valiantly and romantically take the fight to fascists…

… Did you muster the courage to vote for Harris, return2ozma?

Right so many people can’t even parse through obvious right-wing wedge-driving astroturfing to get off their ass and vote for the alternative candidate.

Now they’re going to make memes about taking the fight to fascism? lol, sure. Maybe after their Mountain Dew and CoD session.

So… No better alternative solution?

Okay then.

You’re throwing many peanuts from the peanut gallery without actually offering a more viable alternative solution. I’m alllll ears. So what is it, go to the right of Republicans? Oppress some minorities? What shall it be? Capitulate with fascists? Meet lunacy half way?

Talk to me.

Nah, I believe that if the Democrats actually called out the problem that is the rich, like Koch brothers, like Murdoch, Like Trump, like Musk, like Bezos as far back as 2008 and truly road on a hope & change progressive economic populism that maybe we wouldn’t have arrived to the point where the rich could just buy out every legitimate platform for journalism out there in the first place.

This was decades in the making and weak, watered-down response to obvious corruption meant inches turned into miles.

Democracy is as much about persuasion as it is representation if not more so. Democrats have always been atrocious at even trying to persuade the electorate. Instead every cycle we partake in the definition of insanity, trying to reach the Ignorant and naive electorate on the terms defined by how Republicans have persuaded them. Naturally this moves the Overton Window rightward over…and over… And over again.

You said we’ve moved so far right that you’re practically a Dem now. Well now you know why.

Wake me up when my fellow Democrats start believing in something. When the keys of power within the party are actually handed to the ones who care, the progressives and not used to undermine them at every turn.

I completely agree, but I don’t believe these points are mutually exclusive.

We lost them partly (but not exclusively) because we never stood by what we believed in. We just looked like Republican-lite; a spineless version of Republicans.

But golly it sure seems like going Right worked well for Republicans!

Funny how I heard the same concerns about Trump lol.

Nothing like a Third Way enlightened centrist who thinks we should water down factual policy to cater with ignorance on the right. It’s worked so well! Back to Hillary, amirite?

In fact let’s just run it back with a Hillary / Harris ticket, only this time we go to the right of Republicans!

I’m a former rural Republican by the way.