• selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works
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    The only way the Dems can truly succeed is if they get corporate money out of the party. And we all know the dinosaurs ain’t about to do that…

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    Oh, they’re trying to project authenticity?!? Have they tried, you know, being authentic?

    I love curse words, they’re half my vocabulary. That won’t turn me off. But strong language alone will not move the fucking needle. You’ve got to meet people where they are and really give a shit, not just try stunts.

  • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    They will try anything but heeding the will of the people before the will of their donors, and this is why they will continue to fail. They may win one here or there but never with the consistency or margin to undo the things half of them are helping Trump do. Its a racket and a ratchet.

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    This just shows everyone that the husks who run the Democratic Party have zero ideas of their own. I don’t want to vote for Blue Trump. I want to vote for someone who isn’t a complete coward, who stands for something and will get things done. Start with an agenda of anti-corruption, worker rights, and climate action and go from there.

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    Good idea: make accusations in plain language. “Trump is corrupt and steals taxpayer money.” “Republican policies hurt Americans with jobs.” “Voting for assholes gets you shat on.”

    Bad idea: make shit up. “Trump eats babies.” “Republicans summon Satan in their basements.” “Vote for me and I’ll cure your cancer tomorrow.”

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    I have no doubt that this will attract some people to turn out and vote

    But I really worry that this will just create a second party of brainwashed idiots who are just riding the hype train and not actually engaging with politics.

    Which, to be fair, is probably what the party leadership wants. If they can get a bunch of people who blindly show up because they bought into the hype, then they don’t have to actually of the things those of us who have been paying attention have been begging them to do.

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      An informed voter base that votes based on understanding the policies is of course the ideal, but the problem is a significant chunk of the current voters are already those brainwashed idiots voting for the loudest moron. If what it takes to unseat them is an equivalent group of brainwashed idiots voting in the opposite direction that might just be the compromise we have to make. The critical thing is going to be that the person those idiots elect needs to actually pass intelligent policies. If you can convince morons to vote for someone actually intelligent, that’s still an improvement over the current state where morons are electing either pure evil, morons, or both.

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      Well a big problem is people don’t show up and magically expect politicians to know what they want.

      Voter turnout is abysmal yet we all still blame only politicians.