this thread is full of people placing blame on everyone except the people who actually voted for trump. face the facts: the democrats could have put caucasian jesus on the ticket and trump would still have won.

  • BigBenis@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Frankly, this take is profoundly arrogant and indicative of why the Democrats lost to Trump (again, arguably again-again).

    This implies that the Democrats could not have possibly done any better, or at least submits to the idea that there is nothing meaningful to be learned from this failure. It projects onto the general electorate a deterministic outlook, that they were always going to vote for Trump no matter what as a way to shield the Democrats and ourselves from accountability.

    This is a difficult time time for all of us. We are looking down the barrel of another Trump presidency, one that promises to be a significant tragedy in the history of our nation. It hurts to know what’s coming and people are resigning themselves to complacency in order to ease the pain.

    But if we want to stand a chance the next time around, we need to understand that the Democrats played a role in their own demise. We need to demand better, not make excuses for them and perpetuate the mediocrity that has been the Democratic platform over the last decade. We can’t just hope for another deadly crisis to get us out of this one.

    • Lwaxana Troi@startrek.websiteOP
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      13 days ago

      yawn

      wake me when you are not voting for a bigot and putting in effort to convince others not to vote from a bigot

      until then your internet comments are basicaly just masturbation