• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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        5 days ago

        If you don’t vote for them… They will lose…

        They’re not a hockey team where it doesn’t matter if you participate as a fan or not. If they don’t get votes then they don’t get political power.

        • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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          5 days ago

          And what is the difference between them winning and losing? I’ve been voting for them for years and hating it every time and getting nothing but excuses.

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            4 days ago

            Because they haven’t actually won in a long ass time. Aside from the few months in 2012 that gave us the ACA, it’s been nothing but ties or Republican wins since the Bill Clinton days.

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                The political parties are not fucking sports teams who go out there and play and either win or lose. You vote for them, or don’t, and they consequently win, or don’t.

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                    Do you even know what a political party is? It’s not some company that you pay to provide you a service. It’s not some big vending machine where you put in x and are disappointed you didn’t receive y.

                    A political party is a group of people, largely volunteers, trying to convince people of their agendas.

                    You’re trying to purchase a victory for Dems with your vote but it doesn’t work like that. You’re treating it like you’re in line at McDonald’s ordering a burger but getting cat food and now you storm in waving your receipt and want to talk to the manager.

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              5 days ago

              I’m frustrated. Democrats win and don’t get anything done because of republicans and then lose and don’t bother resisting the republicans.

              Republicans make things worse, of course , but democrats don’t or can’t make things better.

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                4 days ago

                I’m frustrated.

                Of course you are. As am I. But that doesn’t mean I’m willing to just “give up.” Yes I’ll vote against Trump at all chance even if it means I’ll lose. Because I may not.

                I don’t want a leader who is fucking exciting or a firebrand. I just want a competent administrator who treats the nation as something to be preserved. And that’s a hard sell against a cheap auto-salesman like Trump.

                Republicans make things worse, of course , but democrats don’t or can’t make things better.

                But those are the only two options. So you pick a democrat and hope for the best.

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                  4 days ago

                  If the democrats are the best we can hope for then we are well and truly boned.

                  And how much longer am I gonna have to hold my nose and vote for an asshole I hate before they get enough power to mean I don’t have to?

                  Will I be dead before I can actually vote for someone I want to be in office? And even then will they have a stroke and start schlonging conservative dick?

                  Politics is a game designed to be so infuriating that most people rage quit.