• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s a vicious cycle.

      • Democrats win but don’t get a supermajority

      • People balk that they aren’t doing anything and need to be taught a lesson to go further left

      • Republicans win the subsequent midterm because of poor turnout

      • The country gets dragged to the right, and people balk that Democrats aren’t making things better or stopping them

      • Republicans win the presidency and Congress

      • People complain that it’s Democrats faults because they didn’t do anything to inspire them to vote

      Withholding a vote to push Dems left would work if Republicans actually were basically the same. But because they’re right wing extremists, all it accomplished is the opposite. The country moves right, not left.

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        1 year ago

        I like how in your example the Republicans get to push the country right but the Dems cant push it left. Republicans are not winning super majorities every time they do things, and yet they get it done. There’s a large monied wing of the Democrats that works as hard as the Republicans to block a lot of progress, and time and time again magic spoiler democrats come out of nowhere and theres always just enough of them, really curious how there’s always just enough of those types to keep the rich donors safe.

        Democrats do not want to do what they say they want to do as much as Republicans want to do what they say they want do.