• samus12345@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    They did enable the greater evil, but it was voters who ultimately put them in office, not Democrats. The buck stops with the voters. Or it did - they made sure it won’t any more.

    • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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      3 months ago

      it was voters who ultimately put them in office

      Guess I’ll just repeat myself:

      “they still need millions of people to go to the booth and make that choice, and nobody has more control over voter enthusiasm than the democrats themselves”

      If you want to play games with abstracting agency away from the people who had control of the entire situation, go nuts. But not only did the democrats have every opportunity to make the case for themselves, but they also dug the grave they’re now laying in by building their platform around AIPAC money (and large corporate donors) to begin with.

      The democrats simply cannot win with the political machine they’ve constructed anymore.

      • Dkarma@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Congratulations on helping trump win. You’re partially responsible when Gaza goes bye bye. Not the Dems.

        • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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          3 months ago

          Congratulations on helping trump win.

          If all it took for trump to win was a handful of internet weirdos to loudly oppose an active genocide then maybe the democrats were never going to win in the first place.

        • Count042@lemmy.ml
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          3 months ago

          You realize the person you’re responding to LITERALLY believes the same about you, right?

          That’s their entire point.

          Throwing a not-that-pithy “This is all your fault” won’t even phase them. Would it phase you if they did it to you?