It already is a parking lot.
I regret that merely voting was never going to save Palestine. I occasionally regret fleeing the states with my wife and child because I couldn’t come to terms with what it could cost my family if I died resisting fascism. I regret the loss of friends who fell victim to “culture war” and vile propaganda. I have many regrets.
It’s good to know I’m not alone in this boat.
This is peak lemmy progressive right here.
“It’s not my fault I helped Trump get elected; it’s the DNC’s fault for failing my obscure purity test. Who cares that Trump is worse on every issue I care about.”
Yep, just like in both previous elections when the majority of the party wanted Bernie Sanders and the DNC just responded with a big “fuck that”. He’ll the last time they even said they where a private organization and have no requirement to choose the popular frontrunner for their party’s platform
I voted for Harris
It is the DNCs fault Trump won.
The DNC has spent years kinda sorta offering enough social and popular policy. And then half heartedly pushing it, but ultimately giving up when there’s resistance because it’s better to promise those changes then actually do them.
Abortion rights for example. That’s been a carrot on a stick for decades and it ultimately was attacked and the Biden admin didn’t get it codified or push for a new federal legalization.
Or student loan forgiveness. He kinda pushed it and then the courts said nu-uh so it died.
I’ll admit they did do lots of cool stuff but they didn’t do anything that an actually progressive candidate would do, but they promised they would. This has kept an actual lefty progressive candidate off the ballet for decades and this cycle of ineffective, dispassionate campaign apathy has failed to get anyone enthused to vote.
“People should just vote! It’s their duty! They shouldn’t need to be excited to vote!”
Okay but consider. They weren’t enthused. They didn’t vote for another useless Democrat. Trump won.
It’s the DNCs fault because this is the second time they’ve ran a candidate less progressive then Obama and just hoped the strategy of “You should want to vote for the first Woman president! Please ignore she did terrible in the primaries or all why we didn’t do another primary”
You know getting a progressive President wouldn’t have gotten us any closer to abortion rights? Unlike Trump, we actually follow our separation of powers principles, which means the Pres has limited authority. You expect us to just ignore court orders and the legislature like Trump does or something?
A law enshrining abortion rights would require a filibuster-proof Senate majority and control of the House.
I’m all for being critical of the DNC, but we should be clear-eyed on how governing actually works. Also, pretty hard to say Harris was less progressive than Obama, her Senate voting record was pretty damn progressive.
That’s a fascist tactic. Your comment, I mean.
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I was going to make the same post, but you beat me to it. So for fun I checked my entire candidatelist for our 26 parties available for the Dutch lower house, and it DOES list a “Dane C. Harris” running for the Social Party. Very likely not a relative.
Turns out I COULD have voted for Harris.
