• CardboardDecoy@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    It’s a distraction, like literally everything else. He represents a vocal fraction of functional leftists who are successfully infiltrating the DNC so everyone’s pissed because the people he promotes are generally more policy focused and actually grass roots politicians who appear, for the time being, to actually be dedicated to some kind of reform and actually have the momentum to achieve it in a reasonable timeframe.

    So nowthe GOP is pissed because they aren’t the only populists, the DNC is pissed because they might actually have to put in effort to get any electoral power, and the leftists are pissed because literally nothing can make them happy, and at the cemter of it all is a succeasful, rich, 6’5" himbo who streams 8 hours a day and has consistent messaging that might actually end up meaning something long term. Real easy target.

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        12 hours ago

        I’d only alter this saying “the GOP’s” mishaps because never forget that they facilitated this absolute clownshow shitatorship.

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          5 hours ago

          The Democrats are literally willing to tank races in order to avoid progressive candidates winning. I think they are at least a little culpable in getting Trump elected both times, but especially the second time.

          I’m not doing a “both sides”–I’m just trying to hold the Democrats accountable for shit politicking and strategy.

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            52 minutes ago

            No I fully agree. I just got into a real shitfight with the ‘leftists’ who take it to the next step and just promote voter suppression, which is not the answer.

            The DNC strategists, advisors, AIPAC-backed, ‘let them hang themselves so we can just wait to win’, all of them are culpable. We need to bring back defenestration for a lot of them. The fact that they spent all of their money in the PRIMARIES shows just how terrified they are of work and how effective and realistic a threat the populist, socialist left actually are.

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            2 hours ago

            They’ll do anything to make sure they don’t have to get off their ass and ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING.

            I swear, I’ve never seen a party that despise their own voters more than the Democratic party. Even the republicans at least TRY to appeal the their voters interest, even if that interest is mostly just bigotry and religious zealotry.

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              49 minutes ago

              Right. R’s have the advantage of appealing to the people who are so dedicated to authority that they can just lie to their face and the best response is ‘why would he lie? He’s wearing a suit!’

              Dem’s used to have that advantage in the 90’s but didn’t have the stomach for real work, which ultimately is how they bled their own weakness into the open air to target and it ended up being genocide of the Gazans that laid it out for all to see