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Gerrymandered Ohio Republican lawmakers are already scheming to attack voters over election results
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I'm not the one being apathetic. This whole disaster has been allowed to happen because people like you support people unconditionally and then they do whatever the fuck they want in office.
When the bar is "better than the alternative" and they keep moving down with it every time Republicans dig down further, you never get the representation you need and deserve.
Your "vote blue no matter who and never criticize OUR leadership" obedience is why the Dems became complacent enough to allow fascism to gain a foothold while themselves veering further right than Reagan.
You're putting a lot of words and opinions in my mouth and I'm just not going to touch on them because you, quite frankly, don't know anything about me. But. If you think voting less will ever - ever make our society better than in my opinion you don't have a clue.
You misunderstand the suggestion. The time to drive Democratic Party policy is in the primary. Vote for the Lefties. Vote for the socialists. Vote for the anarcho-communists. Vote for the leftiest Lefty that ever leftied. Drive the party Left there, but in that General, you need to vote Blue. The alternative may well ensure you never vote again because they have a plan that involves the voting public being turned into serfs and slaves for their policies. The righties have known this for a goddamn fucking long time. They express it as "Vote for the Conservative in the Primary, and vote for the Republican in the General." We need to steal that thinking and modify it to 'vote for the Liberal in the primary and the Democrat in the General.' There's fucking more of us than there are of those shitheads, just like there were in Iran in the 1970s and in Germany in the 1930s. When you get on your fucking high horse and say 'they aren't liberal enough', that's how you get people like Hitler and the Ayatollah.
Good plan in theory, but the party itself is in charge of the primaries and the leadership plays favorites.
I agree. I'm not saying to not vote blue, I'm saying to make the blue ones earn your vote and raise hell when they don't.
No thanks. Neoliberalism is a center right to right wing ideology.
Holding your elected officials accountable for their actions is so far from a high horse that it's a fucking pony.
No. The rise of the ayatollah was backlash to a US-sponsored coup and Hitler (and Mussolini, for that matter) was the liberals and conservatives in charge not doing enough to stop the rise of fascism, just like the neoliberal Dem leadership now.
I keep hearing this but what I'm not seeing is proof. It's like Trump screaming the elections are rigged. Lots of sound and fury signifying nothing, but what I'm not seeing is actual fire. It sounds like you're saying 'don't vote, it doesn't matter' with this, and that's the exact bullshit I'm trying to stop, because the only people who benefit right now are the assholes on the Right who want us to stop voting so they can just steal it.
If you hold their asses accountable in the Primary like I'm telling you, then by all means, hold their asses to the fire. But Trump's already said what he's going to do in 2025 if he gets in office. I've not read the document yet, but there's lots of talk about him jailing people like you and me, so maybe you're going to want to vote the Mealy-Mouthed Democrat in 2024 so you aren't jailed in 2025 by asshole authoritarians. That's what I'm saying. You raise hell in the Primaries now, because the Republicans will jail you and murder all your gay and minority friends if we listen to what they say they want to do.
Again. The Republicans are telling us they're going to jail Liberals when they take over in 2025. I'm not asking you to not hold the Neoliberal's feet to the fire in 2025, 2026, 2027, and 2028. Hell, I'm not telling you to vote for the Neoliberal in 2024's primaries. But if you vote third party or stay home on Election Day 2024 like so many of you did in 2016 (and 2000, and 2004...) and get my bisexual goth pagan black wife hurt or killed in the Project 2025 nonsense the Trumpers want to go, I'm going to be mighty fucking pissed at you because you let your fucking ideological purity get in the way of common fucking sense.
Here's another colloquialism for you to quibble on: Whistling past the graveyard. There's a whole crowd of fucking Nazi Frogs outside of it, if you can't see it through your ideological tests.
Funny. I studied this shit in college. Yes, the Shah was bad. But what led the Ayatollah to rise rather than, say, a coalition of Leftists, Centrists, Academics, and Moderates of all stripes is the same ideological bullshit our little tiff here is exhibiting. While the Socialists, the Communists, the Academians, the mainstream Liberals, the Moderates, and the Business Owners fought over the best way to rule Iran, the Fundamentalists got busy stealing the reigns of power, and then outlawed the other groups and oppressed them much like the Shah had all of them. While you argue about the purity of your ideology, Trump and his merry band of fuckwits are dreaming of doing more than throwing us in the back of unmarked vans, beating us down with literal "secret" police clad head to foot in riot gear but with no indication of what service they were with or who they are, and drawing nasty political cartoons where Trump is Pepe the Frog in a Nazi Uniform pushing the button while various famous actors, politicians, and other people even remotely Left of Nazi Frog Trump get gassed in the next room over. I don't want that to happen here!
But you have convinced me, buddy. You've convinced me that most hard-leftists would rather see the country burn than see Biden get another 4 years. I just hope my wife and I can get out of the oncoming Nazi Frog USA before it gets worse.