The voters weren’t near powerless (they are now, though). In fact, they had all of the power. They were literally the last defense we had against fascism, and 1/3 of them chose to not stop it because the democrats ran a bad campaign.
The Democrat leadership was irrelevant at election time. The choice was between the status quo and fascism. There’s no nuance. Because guess what? The Democrat leadership is now completely irrelevant because you can’t vote out fascism.
If you didn’t vote against fascism, you are complicit in it happening.
And I am blaming the powerful. The reason I didn’t focus on that is because you already blame the powerful, but you’re trying to excuse the voters who absolutely share culpability, which is why I focused on them.
1 in 244,000,000 votes in an electoral system so bad only 2 choices, ever, are viable, is damn near powerless, barely above being a common citizen in an autocratic dictatorship.
The Democratic Party leadership are veritable Gods in terms of the power they have in comparison with the poor sods you, like some kind of windup flag waving muppet, are raging against as enablers of Fascism and idiots.
If as you try to claim your Rage was truly against those who made choices that led to a Trump victory and Fascism in America, and thus fairly approportioning blame by taking in account each person’s ability to stop Trump and their refusal to do so (especially those who dishonestly shouted that their greatest priority was to “Stop Trump!” and then went and put other priorities above that), this raging you’ve shown here against the riff-raff for not at all voting (not even for voting Trump, but for just not voting) would have an equivalent rage against DNC member so huge that you would have your bloody own nuclear program just so that you could nuke their offices and homes, so great was their power to make sure Trump was Stopped and so little were they willing to concede to make it happen, often acting in ways that actually boosted Trump’s chances.
After Trump himself and the Republicans, the by far bigger contributors to a Trump victory and Fascism in America were the top Democrat politicians who, to get all that sweet AIPAC and corporate dosh, actively chose to deny the wishes of so many voters that their candidate lost against a known giant bullshitter and convicted criminal like Trump even after Trump’s disgraceful first term.
The people you here - following EXACTLY the propaganda line straight out of the DNC on justifying their incredible, disgraceful loss - are raging against like a madman, those who simply did not vote, are dead last in the blame list, and whilst not blameless they’re a long, long distance from people who had far more power than them.
Even better, YOU and people like you who have loudly and mindlessly like good little muppets supported the Democrat Party Leadership no matter what they did, by helping convince those powerful people that they had enough useful idiots to win the election no matter how little they listened to voters, have more blame than non-voters for Fascism in America: for at least a year I’ve seen you muppets here in Lemmy supporting the DNC’s strategy of “Don’t do shit to address voter concerns and try instead to scare voters into voting for us whilst doing the opposite of what they want”, an extraordinarily bad and risky strategy whose choice as the Democrat Party Presidential Campaign Strategy can only be explained by the DNC members wanting to keep getting money from the AIPAC and fat-cat business interests, and a strategy which failed miserably, an outcome which was from the very start highly likely, so bad is that strategy.
Though supporting an incredibly bad electoral strategy against Trump whose only upside was personal upside maximization for those people leading the Democrat Party, you mindless tribalist muppets have much more blame for Fascism in America that any non-voters and, even better, in the very same way as Trump-supporting muppets, you lack the intelligence and self-awareness to see it and in a good old Hard Right tradition chose to blame the least powerful of all people.
The voters weren’t near powerless (they are now, though). In fact, they had all of the power. They were literally the last defense we had against fascism, and 1/3 of them chose to not stop it because the democrats ran a bad campaign.
The Democrat leadership was irrelevant at election time. The choice was between the status quo and fascism. There’s no nuance. Because guess what? The Democrat leadership is now completely irrelevant because you can’t vote out fascism.
If you didn’t vote against fascism, you are complicit in it happening.
And I am blaming the powerful. The reason I didn’t focus on that is because you already blame the powerful, but you’re trying to excuse the voters who absolutely share culpability, which is why I focused on them.
1 in 244,000,000 votes in an electoral system so bad only 2 choices, ever, are viable, is damn near powerless, barely above being a common citizen in an autocratic dictatorship.
The Democratic Party leadership are veritable Gods in terms of the power they have in comparison with the poor sods you, like some kind of windup flag waving muppet, are raging against as enablers of Fascism and idiots.
If as you try to claim your Rage was truly against those who made choices that led to a Trump victory and Fascism in America, and thus fairly approportioning blame by taking in account each person’s ability to stop Trump and their refusal to do so (especially those who dishonestly shouted that their greatest priority was to “Stop Trump!” and then went and put other priorities above that), this raging you’ve shown here against the riff-raff for not at all voting (not even for voting Trump, but for just not voting) would have an equivalent rage against DNC member so huge that you would have your bloody own nuclear program just so that you could nuke their offices and homes, so great was their power to make sure Trump was Stopped and so little were they willing to concede to make it happen, often acting in ways that actually boosted Trump’s chances.
After Trump himself and the Republicans, the by far bigger contributors to a Trump victory and Fascism in America were the top Democrat politicians who, to get all that sweet AIPAC and corporate dosh, actively chose to deny the wishes of so many voters that their candidate lost against a known giant bullshitter and convicted criminal like Trump even after Trump’s disgraceful first term.
The people you here - following EXACTLY the propaganda line straight out of the DNC on justifying their incredible, disgraceful loss - are raging against like a madman, those who simply did not vote, are dead last in the blame list, and whilst not blameless they’re a long, long distance from people who had far more power than them.
Even better, YOU and people like you who have loudly and mindlessly like good little muppets supported the Democrat Party Leadership no matter what they did, by helping convince those powerful people that they had enough useful idiots to win the election no matter how little they listened to voters, have more blame than non-voters for Fascism in America: for at least a year I’ve seen you muppets here in Lemmy supporting the DNC’s strategy of “Don’t do shit to address voter concerns and try instead to scare voters into voting for us whilst doing the opposite of what they want”, an extraordinarily bad and risky strategy whose choice as the Democrat Party Presidential Campaign Strategy can only be explained by the DNC members wanting to keep getting money from the AIPAC and fat-cat business interests, and a strategy which failed miserably, an outcome which was from the very start highly likely, so bad is that strategy.
Though supporting an incredibly bad electoral strategy against Trump whose only upside was personal upside maximization for those people leading the Democrat Party, you mindless tribalist muppets have much more blame for Fascism in America that any non-voters and, even better, in the very same way as Trump-supporting muppets, you lack the intelligence and self-awareness to see it and in a good old Hard Right tradition chose to blame the least powerful of all people.