Rant by Anand Giridharadas about turning people away from the pro-democracy movement

  • bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Actually yes, there are going to be a very noticable amount of people swinging back to the other side. Most people are dipshits who voted trump because they forgot what he did the first time. They may not vote away from republicans but democrats have a huge window of opportunity to blow away

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      7 hours ago

      They’re not going to flip to democrat over this. They still hate all the same people republicans hate. Trump just fucked up on this one thing. The best we can hope for is someone else pops up on the conservative side to split the vote.

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        6 hours ago

        Nah man, most people voted “well everything is getting expensive under biden lets do trump again”. Most of these dickheads are morons, not malicious

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            4 hours ago

            I know plenty as well but most i know did so because they thought “it would be funny” or “i didnt look anything up” or “biden economy” or some other of the dumbest excuses

    • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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      11 hours ago

      Well then they obviously don’t give a shit about government policy and are just mindless fools following the breeze. They can vote Democrat if they want, and their votes are welcome. But “not turning them away” implies actually trying to adjust the party’s positions to appeal to them. Sorry, but we don’t need to for example, throw trans kids under the bus, just to appeal to a bunch of idiots that happily voted for a known rapist. These are fundamentally not good people.

    • thesohoriots@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      2028 is a long time from now, and there’s a lot of ways for republicans to retain power, and for democrats to “appeal to the moderates” by shifting further right before then