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LOL why weren’t you and the apparently millions of other like minded yous mobilizing to either get someone else on the ballot, or writing in someone else?

or were you just accepting what you were told to, like you’re accusing everyone else of doing now?

again–what do you think you’re going to accomplish with all of these sad desperate dEmScHeAtEd attacks? making people not vote now?

have fun with that

btw: voter registrations for 18-34 year olds surged AFTER harris became the nominee. that means people are registering specifically to vote for harris. does that grind your gears? LOL

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again–what do you think you’re going to accomplish

Did you not see what happened to the Republican party when they stopped holding their politicians accountable?

Why are you trying to make the democratic party just as shitty?

btw: voter registrations for 18-34 year olds surged AFTER harris became the nominee. that means people are registering specifically to vote for harris. does that grind your gears? LOL

No…

It’s a good thing, I’ve spent over a year saying Biden and Hillary are the only two who could.lose to trump…

I’m glad Biden finally listened to people who knew what he was talking about about. But I’m still mad that he waited so long we didn’t get a primary.

You seem to be operating under football logic where people pick a team and only say good things about them.

Which again, is what made the Republican party into what it is today.

So I ask again, why do you want both major parties to act like Republicans?

If youre not gonna answer, there’s no point in me wasting time with you.

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Your argument here might hold some weight if it weren’t for the fact that the only reason this conversation is even happening is that the presumptive Democratic candidate just voluntary withdrew from the race when it became clear that he couldn’t win. The last guy staged a fucking coup after he lost.

How many months did you just spend bitching and moaning about how anyone would be better than Joe? Now you have anyone else and you’re still salty about it. I wonder how you could make it any more transparent that your goal is just to discourage people from voting.

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Since you seem willing to engage in discourse about this, I feel similarly to the person you replied to and can explain my position. I don’t want to discourage anyone from voting, I have two goals:

  1. Don’t concede the White House to Trump
  2. Fight back against the Democratic Party’s efforts to reduce the voice of the people.

I’m guessing we agree on #1 and disagree on the premise of #2. I see #2 as a systemic pattern that really launched after the 2008 primaries when Obama disrupted the plan to place Hillary in the White House. It came to a head in 2016 and has been rippling ever since.

I never believed Joe should have run again in the first place, and in the last month it became clear that him running was detrimental to #1. So we push for him to step aside, while I still think he shouldn’t have run in the first place. He steps down, and you feel satisfied because goal #1 is protected. But I’m deeply unsettled by the damage that has been done to #2. The Democrats just figured out how to skip the voice of the people entirely.

The last time this happened (1968 primaries, eerily similar) the Democrats launched a committee to reform the primary process into what it is today. A big improvement over what it was before, but Biden just revealed a significant weakness in it.

I’m happy to vote for Harris to fulfill #1, I’m thrilled that there was a surge in registrations. But if the Democrats don’t address the critical problem of this process we all just witnessed, I fear #2 becomes unreachable. The Democrats are our only hope of saving our democracy, so if they abandon democracy within their party (like I have seen happening over the last 16 years), it’s a hollow victory.

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LOL ok. you can sit there and say dems are “acting like republicans” for the rest of your life, but you’ll die having NEVER been correct. dems have not tried to run fake electors. dems have not attempted an insurrection on the capitol to overthrow an election. dems don’t nominate a rapist conman. this is among MANY, MANY things that blatantly throw your notion of “both sides are the same” out the window. honestly it’s been tiresome for years

the immediate objective, right now, which should be everyone’s absolute top priority, is keeping trump out of the white house. that’s it. your motivation for trying (poorly) to undermine that doesn’t matter. what matters is that your arguments are weak and without substance

yet still, assuming some parallel universe where you’re right, you still haven’t spelled out exactly what actions you expect people to take. i’m assuming it’s not to vote at all. so, again: have fun with that

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