• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    No. My point is you should vote. You should be primarying every corporate Democrat. You should also be working on a third party for the next few years.

    Corporate Democrats don’t want people to vote. Pelosi doesn’t care about you or me, she gets richer off her insider trading and the GOP policies or Dem policies. All they want is to get re-elected. Until that is threatened all we’re ever going to get from them is fake concern on talk shows.

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      1 day ago

      Did you think I was disagreeing with you in some way? My reply was to a different comment. I agree with pretty much everything you just said. Well, maybe reforming the voting system before trying a doomed effort to switch “the left” to a progressive third party for the next few years, under a FPTP system… but other than that, yes.

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        1 day ago

        Sorry I’m just so used to people trying to characterize my views on the Democrats as “Both Sides” or “Stay Home”.

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          In fairness, there are quite a lot of people saying that, who have poisoned the well.

          I get your frustration. I don’t even like the Democrats, and I am constantly accused of all kinds of sins against leftism, just because I keep pointing out that not voting for them, in the current political climate, will make things 10 times worse.

          I’m interested to note that the top-level narrative of the first few comments has coalesced exactly as I predicted it would. If you go back and sort by “top,” you’ll see what the actual consensus is… and yet, somehow there’s an opposite consensus that things reliably coalesce into after a while, when the comments settle down.