It Will Be an Election Unlike Any We’ve Lived Through. Are the Democrats Prepared?
It Will Be an Election Unlike Any We’ve Lived Through. Are the Democrats Prepared?
Like it or not, 2024 has arrived. We’re in for 11 months of hell. But the outcome is far from preordained.
The animating concept behind the Trump campaign will be chaos. This is what history shows us fascists do when given the chance to participate in democratic political campaigns: They create chaos. They do it because chaos works to their advantage. They revel in it, because they can see how profoundly chaos unnerves democratic-republicans—everyone, that is, whether liberal or conservative, who believes in the basic idea of a representative government that is built around neutral rules. Fascism exists to pulverize neutral rules.
So they campaign with explicit intention to instill a sense of chaos. And then comes the topper: They have the audacity to insist that the only solution to the chaos—that they themselves have either grossly exaggerated or in some cases created!—is to vote for them: “You see, there is nothing but chaos afoot, and only we can restore order!”
This has been the Republican Party's M.O. for decades.
"Government is corrupt and ineffective, elect us and we'll prove it to you!"
67That's 11 months for heart disease to do the world a favor and get itself some good PR for once.
37There is no saving America, there's only buying time. Democrats can't do what's needed to prevent fascism because actually doing something about the Republican party would risk creating actual democracy. Prepare to fight fascism now because at best you're buying yourself another 4 years. Vote, don't vote, vote for a third party out of protest, whatever you do organize with other people and prepare for the worst.
In the best case, I'm wrong and you've made new friends. But if you don't organize now it will be too late to organize in the worst case.
31Democrats still don't know who they will be running against - since the polling needed to determine that are not "likely Iowa caucus goers" but "likely Trump jurors". We don't want to be like the Republicans in 2008 who were completely prepared to take on and tear down a Hilary Clinton nominee, only to find themselves fighting Obama.
24A lot of wackos around the world have been winning elections, so we shall see.
20I wouldn't be surprised if more vicious rhetoric has been used in past elections, at least one candidate in pre-Civil War America was called a "hermaphrodite", but the inevitable use of AI is going to make the election an absolute circus. L
15Please, for the love of God; if it's a state where Biden is guaranteed, then vote third party or whatever alternative dumbass you want. If it's a swing state, it's your god damned duty to vote for Biden. I don't like the AID he's providing Israel but he's not dropping the fucking bombs.
We don't need to spit in the face of our constitution to prove a point. We don't need to tank the work he's done getting the country back on track so you can feel morally superior. We don't need another bad year of COVID just because your friends are saying "Biden bad". Your friends are retarded and so are you.
Normally I don't give a shit what you liberal idiots do but this is seriously going to affect us in the real world. It's not your reddit and lemmy echo chambers out here so please tighten the fuck up.
Or tell us of a viable, alternative candidate with over a 90% chance of winning. Oh you don't have one? Then please shut the fuck up and vote Biden.
14Meet the new year, same as the old year.
14Checks news.
Biden sends Israel more bombs
No. No they are not.
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2Short Answer: No
Long Answer: I'm prepared for the Republicans to do the most blatantly illegal and immoral thing to steal the election, for Democrats to wave their finger if they feel an "aww shucks" isn't good enough, and for Democracy to die so Decorum may live... and for the Media to pretend it's not happening while they parrot "BoTh SiDeS", Comedians will call it as it is, but that'll be the extent of it.
2The electoral system in the US has been going increasingly downhill. It's sad that it also affects the rest of the world as well.
1I don't know who
newrepublic.comis, and I'm no fan of Israel and its homicidal reactionism right now, but if you think that there's any chance at all that this is going to make me vote for a goddamn insurrectionist sociopath over the guy I occasionally have policy disagreements with, you are an absolute waste of oxygen.1I love how it's the dem's responsibility to keep conservatives from destroying the country - oh wait, no, it's been that way since bush ran the economy into the shitter, er, no, not that bush, the other bush & reagan. Somehow conservatives always present some kind of existential threat to the democracy that's the left's job to fix again and again.
1Of course they're prepared. They've already selected a group to blame if they lose.
0They are incompetent by design and by ignoring that means nothing will ever change for the better
-2vote biden because trump is a fascist
biden and obama chained a presidential candidate to chair for eight hours so she could not debate with the democrats and republicans
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/jill-stein-2012-debate-arrest-hofstra-university/
and now who you get to vote for will be decided by your state
During the campaign, Stein repeatedly said that there were no significant differences between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. She said, "Romney is a wolf in a wolf's clothing, Obama is a wolf in a sheep's clothing, but they both essentially have the same agenda." She called both of them "Wall Street candidates" asking for "a mandate for four more years of corporate rule".
how was she wrong
-3If Genocide Joe doesn't step down I hope you all have the slightest morals left and vote third party instead of this Nazi enabler.
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