• ysjet@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I’ts not supposed to make sense, it’s supposed to convince people not to vote, because people exercising their rights are inconvenient to the republican leadership and their backers.

    • Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip
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      1 day ago

      People can still vote, just for neither of the major parties which to imbeciles is no different than not voting since ya’ll want to keep us trapped in this shit instead of getting out there and doing the hard work of building actual progressive parties up.

      • danc4498@lemmy.world
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        21 hours ago

        People can still vote, just for neither of the major parties

        77 million votes for one major party. 75 for the other. And 3 million for all others. Tell me, what is this going to accomplish? Do you honestly believe you are going to make ANY change by voting 3rd party?

        I get the mentality that you want change, and voting for one of the same two parties feels like it won’t change anything, but neither will throwing your vote away!

        Do democrats often disappoint? Yes! But they are also hamstrung by a system that benefits republicans. You want universal healthcare? It will NEVER happen so long as republicans control so much of the legislation.

        IMO, the best chance for progressives is to keep voting for Democrats and use your primary vote to pick the progressive candidate. Vote 3rd party and you are just making it easier for the Republicans to do the exact opposite of what you want.

      • Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
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        21 hours ago

        my grandfather said the goal of the democrats is to build up a progressive party and that it takes time and lots of votes

        he started voting at 18 and was also brainwashed by the democrats into thinking that one vote one day might be the vote that makes the democrats magically transform into a real progressive party too

        just like with fairy tales will never come true and the proof is all around us in our $7.25 minimum wage, the low value we put on our education, out of control police, the environment that is under constant threat, our workplaces that values the body as a warm piece of meat to be used as production tool and not as a human being that has rights even at work, and you can even see out in the open by just observing the democrats who are always bedding with the party that supposedly keeps them from doing anything just like the gala harris had with them that included celebrities with democrats like walz who happily worked closely with trump during trumps first four years even being the one who asked trump to work with him

        not to mention voting on a machine that is privately owned by some company without a wikipedia page so votes do not matter anyway and even if they did what influences the votes are the ads, education, etcetera which again all owned by the same ones at the tops that own those voting machines

        so yeah you voting for democrats means so much