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Yep, this was the logical follow-up to Dobbs.
Thanks, non-voters.
"tHaNkS nOn-VoTeRs"
proceeds to support a party that skipped the primaries, has been anointing unlikable candidates for over 10 years with zero input
"ITs ThE nOn VoTeRs!!"
Maybe your shit party should hold actual primaries where people can select their candidate? Maybe, when in power, they should actually make meaningful change that helps people? Maybe they should actually appoint supreme court judges when given the chance?
Somehow when they aren't in power, they are spinelessly fighting "if only we were in power we could fix all of this" then when they're in power, they are somehow even more powerless "the Republicans keep blocking us".
You got to be a real piece of work to think putting your trust in that party will fix anything. They are controlled opposition and the democracy has been lost for a long time.
Non-voters already know this.
Instead of attacking them, how about you hold your party accountable? They stole a primary from Bernie Sanders twice, and went ahead and eliminated primaries this last time. What will it take for you to look in the mirror and reflect instead of blaming everything around you?
Fair. Although they didn't really have time when, a few months out, everyone started freaking out about Biden's age and demanding a new candidate.
This shows your lack of knowledge regarding this subject. If you review Democrat voting history, bills they have passed, you'd see that they've accomplished quite a bit of value for average Americans. Biden alone made significant strides. They've certainly done FAR, FAR more than Republicans ever have. In my own life, I remember when they gave me affordable healthcare through the ACA when I had zero healthcare before.
Republicans have blocked them from doing so and people like RBG selfishly held onto her position until the Democrats couldn't replace her.
I think you think Democrats have had ACTUAL TOTAL CONTROL more often and for longer periods of time than they actually have. Because when they don't have total control, they have to convince Republicans to vote with them, which Republicans won't do.
Lol. No they didn't. Where do you get your information? Inside your own head? Democrat primaries were held in 2016, 2020, and 2024. Bernie LOST by not getting enough popular votes. AFTER the 2024 primaries enough Democrat voters expressed enough concern over Biden's age that they offered up another candidate (the VP) without another primary, because it's kind of hard to hold primaries in the last couple months leading up to an election. You can argue that it was wrong to not hold a second round of primaries for that and I wouldn't necessarily disagree.
I guess my question to you is....what alternative do you have? We are literally living the repercussion of people not voting or voting 3rd party because they're upset with Democrats. The repercussion? A fascist party literally waltzed into power and we're witnessing the flagrant disregard for our Constitution and the deconstruction of our Democracy.
Do you think protesting by not voting or voting for a 3rd party that CANNOT win helps make things better? Do you not grasp that the intelligent thing to do is vote for the lesser of two evils and then work to reform that lesser evil by voting out the candidates that won't get onboard with more progressive policies? Political party reform has happened multiple times throughout American history and conservatives just did it, in the worst way possible, to the Republican party over the last decade or so.
And to be clear about the chances of a 3rd party candidate winning. They stand a snowball's chance in hell. Why? Because the 3rd party candidate with the most votes in 2024 was magician Jill Stein, who magically appears right before every election, gets crushed, then magically disappears again. And she got a whopping HALF OF A SINGLE PERCENT of the total votes cast. Proving, beyond doubt, that no 3rd party stands a chance. And, to be more clear, no 3rd party is even trying to become viable. None are doing what's necessary to start winning local and state elections to get more than ZERO representation in Congress.
Welcome to reality. You should adapt to it.