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Whom Should You Vote For? Don't be just a 'political hobbyist' (billhulet.substack.com)

submitted 8 months ago by randy@lemmy.ca to c/politics@beehaw.org

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"My experience is that most of the people who get really upset about the current leadership of our nations tend to be folks who haven’t spent much time either as an activist or as someone working for a candidate. What happens instead is they immerse themselves in on-line news and commentary."

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[–] Intelligence_Gap@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just because something is true for a long time doesn’t make it false. Just because you see a train moving doesn’t mean it’s going to stop if you just stand on the tracks

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Did I ever suggest that Republicans aren't destroying democracy? The problem is that the DNC is intentionally setting themselves up as the only alternative choice, which is also destroying democracy.

Democracy is the ability of the voters to direct the government, and they are intentionally quashing that in favor of their political picks.

"Vote for us, or we let them hurt you (while we work to make sure you can't vote for anyone else)" isn't a political pitch in a democracy, it's racketeering.

If Democrat politicians actually believed that the US was going to turn into a dictatorship under Trump, they would be doing much more than just hyping up Biden, because if Trump became a dictator, they would all be first against the wall.

But they're literally doing nothing other than telling people to vote for them. Why? Because they don't actually believe it, they just know that you do, and they're more than happy to have you come on here and try to browbeat others into giving them another term of paychecks.

That's why they were more concerned with winning the primary than actually putting up a strong candidate against Trump; actual progressives are a threat to their gravy train, while Republicans just want to ride it with them.