• Seraph@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The only reason why I have a hard time believing that’s true is that he barely won last time and he’s burnt a lot of bridges since then, not to mention killed a lot of his constituency with COVID.

    Not saying you’re wrong I just can’t wrap my brain around it.

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        1 year ago

        I’ll repeat it in case anyone has missed it.

        JUST VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION.

        We have to go vote in every, single, election. The right spent the last 70 years cultivating a base full of ignorant bigots so they’d turn out to vote against black people and hippies. They even got hateful fuckers to run for boring things like school boards and city councils. That shit paid dividends for them as we’re all witnessing today with a gerrymandered congress and school boards deciding they’re not going to teach things because the truth hurts their feelings.

        The only way we win long term is to go vote in every single election and drag the country back to the left (the real left, not the current crop of milquetoast corporate-democrats) so we can have a real conversation about things that really impact peoples lives, like ranked choice, wage theft, national healthcare, and UBI.

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      1 year ago

      What you’re missing is that many people will have that same attitude, and use it as an excuse not to vote. We aren’t as motivated because he’s not in office, so we need to remember what will happen if he gets back in.

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      And yet, Trump got even more votes the second time around, even after spending a literal year of his presidency golfing and tanking the economy by making COVID a partisan issue.

      Trump represents the strong undercurrent of white grievance mixed with class warfare and religious faux-persecution that forms the basis of American fascism, and it’s gaining traction.