• enbyecho@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    “…unless something significant happens…”

    Yeah, like all of us voting.

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      3 months ago

      All of us were always going to vote… Let’s be honest. But that’s not going to be enough. Biden needs millions of young progressives to turn up and vote for him, but to get them to do that, he’s going to need to start meeting them halfway, instead of continuing to meet Republicans/fascists halfway.

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        3 months ago

        If they choose the vote for trump with more steps by not voting blue, I hold them fully accountable. Sorry.

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        3 months ago

        Because it couldn’t possibly be that we ALL need to compromise to make this work. Biden, as far as I’m concerned, did in fact meet us at least part way. Not even close to where I’d want but not nothing either. And in doing so probably alienated more conservative voters. So they didn’t get everything they wanted and neither did we. But in the process we all got some of what what we wanted.

        If “kids these days” can’t figure out that democracy is fundamentally a compromise in which nobody is 100% happy then truly we’re fucked.

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          3 months ago

          When did megacorps, billionaires and insider trading political dynasties ever have to compromise?

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            3 months ago

            When did megacorps, billionaires and insider trading political dynasties ever have to compromise?

            For starters, some random examples would include state minimum wage laws, environmental regulations (e.g. banning drilling in the arctic, banning certain chemicals, etc), and labor protections generally.

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      3 months ago

      Sure, but Democrats seem very easy to discourage into not voting compared to conservatives.

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        3 months ago

        Are you easily discouraged? Do you stamp your feet an yell when you don’t get 100% your way, 100% of the time? Or do you recognize that other people exist and have different needs and wants?

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          3 months ago

          It’s a fact that Democrats and progressives don’t show up as consistently to vote as conservatives. It’s just not part of the culture like it is for conservatives.

          Trump is a convicted felon and it does not make a difference for his voters. Biden has a bad debate and Democrats are fleeing left and right. That’s how you lose elections.

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            3 months ago

            Oh well I guess just don’t bother to vote then since clearly we’re gonna lose

            /s

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        3 months ago

        One is a cult of press-stamped NPCs, the other is a massively varied collection of people that want everything their way or they are taking their ball and going home. It is a rough position to be in when your party has to cover “everyone that isn’t a conservative”…it’s a huge majority of people to gather up under one umbrella.