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Trolling with anonymous input on a basis of moral superiority helps no one and makes you appear to be an agent sowing division. Just FYI, contributing nothing to the conversation, other than telling others they should be ashamed is bot behaviour.
Shame is a tool for personal growth especially for someone who wants empathy from others when unwilling to show it to the people who need it the most.
The main contribution to the conversation is that democrats haven't done anything to help the non-wealthy when they had power so why would you keep voting for them?
That's insanity. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Even if MAGA is disillusioned and votes for the things that will ultimately hurt themselves, their issues have been taken up and approached by the people they elected.
How come Trump is all of a sudden willing to yield this power for the people who voted for him, but when democrats get into power they are powerless?
Democrats should be doing everything they can to help people - especially right now in this constitutional crisis, but where are they? Sheepherding people out of their anger and frustration into a place where they are going to tell people to once again vote for the lesser of two evils. That game is old.
They don't have any concrete plan on what to do even though they lamented for months about project 2025. It was all laid out before them months in advance, and they still have ZERO plan (or even a hint of an idea) on how to combat it. So they have folded and started doing speaking about nothing tours.
They are just the good cops in this dynamic - and guess what - the good cop and the bad cop are buddies.
I'm not telling you I know how to solve the problem, but I am telling you I know exactly how to not solve the problem.
To continue making excuses for and putting faith in a party that doesn't give you anything but pleasantries and plattitudes is just going to enable things getting worse - slowly when democrats are in power and rapidly when republicans hold the office.
Ps. I am old enough to remember when Genocide Joe said he was only going to be a one term president and pass the reigns to the next generation, but then he gave the middle finger to everyone and sabotaged the entire 2024 election? You know who enabled him to go through with that disastrous policy decision?
The entire DNC.
I also remember that wonderful primary season of 2024 where the democrats saw through a democratic process where the people chose the successor to Biden. Oh wait that didn't actually happen because the DNC gave everyone the middle finger again.
The enemy of progress is division. Holding idealised views of how political parties should be is disingenuous virtue signalling and disregards how politics work(s)ed in America with AIPAC, corporate lobbying and a two party system of First Past The Post elections. You are right to want further change, but right now this divisive rhetoric only serves the ruling class. Democrats are always targeted for their failings and support for the party is often split because of it, while republicans disregard all criticism and stay united through their hatred and obfuscation of the truth. You can be right without also serving the purposes of your enemy. If they prevail, when they finally crush every last one of us because there was no united opposition. It does not matter how correct you are my friend, being right won't matter. "I told you so" means nothing in Hell.
This isn't virtue signaling or moral high grounding.
It's pointing out facts. The fact is the leaders of the democratic party are the most divisive of all, claiming to espouse progressive policies yet always blaming the most ardent supporters of those policies when they lose elections.
Why are people seeking refuge in a party that silences the voices of the people most in need. This is the whole point. There will be no appeal to their power. They enjoy the divide because it keeps them in power.
Bernie Sanders just had someone thrown out and arrested for raising a "Free Palestine" flag at his latest rally while the whole auditorium was chanting "Free Palestine."
The false claims of anti-semitism/national security that Trump is using to deport people started underneath the democrats with their support.
Because the other option is the destruction of Western intellectualism, death camps, the genocide of the working class and White Supremacy. It's quite simple really.
This is an example of being obtuse.
One party wants you to shut up so the other can run wild over you.
The duopoly ladies and gentlemen.
Take note, this is why America need massive education reform and funding for a comprehensive federal department of education. Reading comprehension is suffering.
Yes, and you have been the shining example. Thank you for your cooperation.
As a European, thank you. Remember to sound the words out one syllable at a time when you get stuck. <3
I was wondering why you had no clue what you were talking about. You're experience of America is totally online and not working with the public and citizens everyday as I do.
How much time and money and energy did you donate to Bernie? Because I did a considerable amount of each and many people who did with me share the same insights.
So thanks for the great story.
No, it isn't actually but when you've never lived outside your state, I guess it's hard to imagine someone who's lived on multiple continents.
Wrong again buddy. Keep trying for the internet points.