• FuglyDuck
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    210 months ago

    But noooo, we need to rob people of that only pressure card they have because a bigger evil is looming in the distance.

    why do you think the oligarchs tolerate somebody as unstable and unfit as Trump? the corporate elite aren’t making plans for the next four years. or even eight. They’re making plans for the next handful of decades.

    from their perspective the disaster that is a Trump presidency is a Peon’s problem and something they can simply weather, particularly since L’Chump is perfectly willing to cut 'em all some tax breaks and deregulate shit, and all that, so long as they flatter him and maybe stay at his hotel.

    But really, what it does, it let them scare the progressives into voting for “centrists” perfectly willing to move things to a more comfortable spot. for them.

    • Zorque
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      410 months ago

      Plenty of downticket races that will have a more positive impact than a “protest vote” that will ultimately only make your life worse in the end.

      They learned literally nothing in 2016, why do you think they’d suddenly take it to heart now?

      • FuglyDuck
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        110 months ago

        They learned literally nothing in 2016, why do you think they’d suddenly take it to heart now?

        I don’t. That’s why I’m not a democrat.

        The problem with downticket votes- people have been voting more progressive for ages; it that doesn’t translate to the national party which is mostly centrist…. Because they play games with their bullshit primaries.