If every American voted in PRIMARIES, BERNIE WOULD'VE WON 2016!
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2026
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Well that's why they're constantly gerrymandering districts, making mail in voting illegal, and adding impossible requirements to vote in person. Because they know they can't win without changing the rules.
Voter suppression and a propaganda network for 30-50 years gets traction eventually.
Im not United Statian but, didnt hillary win the popular vote in 2016?
Yup! So did Al Gore in 2000.
Imagine all the bullshit we'd have been spared if it hadn't been for Roger Stone and the other cheating cunts behind the Brooks Brothers Riot, Jeb Bush, and the already corrupt as fuck SCOTUS 😮💨🤬
Don't forget Clarence Thomas. He was also heavily involved at the time, in fact he played a decisive role, and he is just as obviously corrupt today as he was then. No consequences, no accountability whatsoever.
Yup, the electoral college is what ruins everything. Allows gerrymandering to exist and denies the majority of Americans their vote validity.
This is so true. I think I recall the current administration saying that ranked voting is bad for everyone and we need to pass laws banning it. They want every election to be first past the post since it benefits them in addition to gerrymandering and winner take all electoral college voting.
Ranked-choice voting in single-member districts is a small improvement over first-past-the-post, but it maintains a two-party system. Proportional representation is a necessary requirement for a functional democracy.
This was not true in 2024, according to Pew. The trend may reverse without Trump and/or after touching the hot stove, but recent elections have shown that Republicans made big gains among low-propensity/low-information voters while Democrats have gained among highly engaged voters.
These voters have already swung the other way by 25% in a more recent poll.
i haven't been following trends too long, but don't low information voters almost always vote against the incumbent? i know i'm oversimplifying
this is assuming the voting is fair and not-rigged. who's always accusing dems of voter fraud? GOP. who does it almost always end up being when there's actual voter fraud? also GOP
we know there's rampant gerrymandering and voter suppression going on, and that fascist gestapo thugs will be roving the election sites (which are drastically reduced in number thanks to GOP state boards of elections) in order to intimidate voters. can you thinKKK of another instance of this sort of thing happening in the not-too-distant past? except this time it's the feds doing the intimidating, not inbred hicks. we also know that a number of states have made it so their legislature can just throw away and overturn results they "don't like," so...there's that
i wish i had more optimism for the outcome of this miderm, but i don't. i'm afraid it will be a literal bloodbath
this is assuming the voting is fair and not-rigged.
There will certainly be rigging, but the United States is not one country with one election to rig, it's 50 individual states with their own voting systems, their own security and validation systems and so on.
Sure, they will focus on battlegrounds and swing states worth the most points, as always, but they are WAY overreaching if they think they can cheat the whole thing.
If they had that much control, we wouldn't see so many progressive candidates in local and state elections sweeping the table right now. That fact alone is terrifying them because even if they win the mid-terms and 2028, without a strong, local foundation supporting them in every state, they will be powerless. There are still some safeguards built into the USA on a deep level, and while they're eroding fast, they may still save us from total, rapid destruction.
Just gonna leave us with the slow, steady, inexorable march into banal decay.
seems to me, this midterm is our last chance. if it is a chance, that is
For those of you with MAGA family members, and who might live in states which require ID to vote: most people might pat a pocket to check that they have their wallet but aren't likely to check their driver's license is actually in there. Getting stuck without it at the polls might not completely stop them voting but we all have seen conservatives change their tune when something impacts them. The license could turn up at someplace like their grocery store...
The issue was letting conservatives run the DNC under the label of "neoliberals"...
Like, there are fundamentally different ways a progressive and conservative think, to the point a brain scan can determine political leaning with an ~80% success rate after like five minutes of showing a human what to look for. Which is insanely impressive when you realize we rarely see 80% turnout in elections.
The neoliberals marketed themselves to Dem voters like we were conservatives, because that's what they are and they lack the empathy to realize anyone's different.
You can't run a successful Dem campaign off fear, because if that appealed to Dem voters we'd be voting Republican already.
That's why Obama did so well in 2008 off literally just saying "hope" and "change" over and over...
That's all it fucking takes, and now that the neoliberals aren't running the DNC, that's what will come out of the primary naturally this time.
I'm doing my part. In Lesser Carolina independents can vote for either party during the primary. I consistently vote in the Republican primary to vote primary out Lindsey Graham.
Zero results so far.
We always vote for a slow death instead of a fast one.
It’s hard for us to commit to long term gratification on a personal scale, you think were apt for the same task on a national scale?
If I don’t see instant results after I vote, I’m never voting again!… (/s)
…we need whatever the Ozempic equivalent is across the nation.
Of course that's the case, why do you think Republicans want to prevent voters from voting?
I strongly encourage them to hold fast to this plan of requiring passports to vote. The one document that almost every immigrant and well-traveled urbanite has almost always updated and now carry with them at all times, as opposed to midwest rural folk who never left their home-town and often don't even have a driver's license.
Thats whats is so depressing about this.
This is like those physics questions in school were we "assume constant velocity" (zero acceleration) in a frictionless vacuum.
Sure. You could get the right answer and understand something about how physics work. But it's not really something you can directly apply to the real world.
Cue Lemleft's "voting is for suckers" chant