Something that I realized about the fediverse is that you seem to be able to criticize the USA as a whole, but if you criticize the Democrats you get downvoted. Democrats suck they are not sacred cows

Both parties suck. Both are corporate slaves, but one just happens to be openly pro-Nazi.

I've seen plenty of folks criticize dems without getting downvoted.

I do agree that democrats are not scared cows? Maybe scared, but not cows.

Republicans are a known quantity. They are evil corrupt oxygen thieves. Each one a tragic waste of functioning organs.

That is what they are. That is all you should expect from them.

The Democrats are supposed to be better. They claim to be better. They talk mad shit when it suits them. But when they're in power they always do the bare minimum of not being quite as snake-fuckingly crazy as the Republicans. (Apparently they're cool with genocide now tho so.....🤪)

But they do little to actually help. And when they're bullied into it it comes with reams of administrative bloat that ruins it. Fucking means testing and razor thin scopes.

9/10ths of the job of a DNC member in good standing is maintaining the status quo. Which sucks. So they lose elections and shit gets worse under repubs. They win and restabilize the status quo to the new shittier standard set by the Rs. The other 1/10th is stopping anyone with ideas left of Reagan from getting any power.

And that's why the Democrats rightfully get the smoke. They're supposed to be better than they are. More is expected of them and they refuse to live up to it. The reasons are myriad. Corruption, adherence to norms, etc.

I commented on this post @ https://lemmy.ml/post/26567894

I said...

"Democrats suck and are ineffectual at accomplishing their (generally decent) goals.

Republicans are trying to turn the US into a dictatorship. I hope this was a hyperbolic statment, but it seems like this is where we are now.

Why can't we be critical of democrats by being selective in the primaries? I think that a protest vote for an independent candidate, especially if you were in a swing state, has proven to have been a very poor choice.

Edit: To add to my initial point, I think that we are seing a lot of post-hoc rationalization from non-voters and protest voters.

You would have to be crazy to prefer the outcome that we got over having Kamala, and if you contributed to our current situation **** you."

After being the most upvoted comment on this post there for almost 24 hours, my comment was removed by moderators.

Demotivating people left of center is the last thing that we need for the next 2 years, we need to reform the DNC, and let them know what we want.