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Something that I realized about the fediverse is that you seem to be able to criticize the USA as a whole, but if you criticize the Democrats you get downvoted. Democrats suck they are not sacred cows (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 hours ago (8 children)

Running a feckless campaign that refused to break with Biden's admin on genocide is why we got this living hell. And running the most unlikeable woman in the country in 2016 is what made 2024 even a possibility.

Dems have fucked up terribly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (6 children)

That about sums it up.

I'll vote Democrat as long as the alternative is fascism.

But fuck me, I'd love to vote for something else. And I'll be honest, I have no idea how we get anything better.

I hear people saying to organize, but I can't even imagine what that takes. I wonder if most Americans feel as helpless as I do in the face of this absolute bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The hard fact is that what the population votes for is what the population gets. They have completely given up their agency and just accept this impotent logic of "we'll take whatever the most obvious/most apparently easy option is, that isn't a Republican". It's a cyclical problem, the voters don't care enough to force politicians to be good, and the politicians don't care enough to court voters.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

At the same time, "what the population votes for is what the population gets" ignores that we are often only presented with crappy options to start with.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say "you get what you fight for, and if you don't fight you get what you get."

I... haven't really fought for anything. I believed the right things. I voted as best I could. But that clearly didn't stop this.

I want to protect my ego and say I'm not a coward. Is there a distinction to be made between cowardice and simply not knowing what to do? I don't know. I just know I'm trying my best, but maybe that's just not enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago* (last edited 7 minutes ago)

At the same time, “what the population votes for is what the population gets” ignores that we are often only presented with crappy options to start with.