After working for the DNC for free for years and most of my calls being right, they can suck my fucking dick never again the amount of fucking consulting fees other people squeezed out of those pricks meanwhile I'm basically unemployable because of my politics, I'm not even a fucking american.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 22 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

If the electoral system only lets you choose leaders who don't align with the majority, it's not a democracy. It's a dictatorship with extra steps.

[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 7 hours ago

Maybe even a

Dictatorship of the bourgeoise

[+] SuDmit@lemmy.blahaj.zone -7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

Rhetorical: Omg again? With same exact picture? In not really political comm?

(Disclaimer: not US citizen)

Go and vote in primaries for candidates you want, so maybe you get someone decent (so "no matter who" part is eliminated), apply pressure to them right now. Until you have enough power and support to create new party from scratch (and have it catch third of population instantly somehow, including republicans) or overthrow current system altogether, you have to work within it.

Also: in famous thought experiment, named Trolley problem, do you call yourself murderer (genocider) if you decide to push the lever?

I myself had different and conflicted opinions during those years, arguments for voting blue and third party (or abstaining) both look quite convincing, at least for not well versed in politics me. Ugh.

Looking forward to mod award on this post.

[–] m532@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 hours ago

Did you ever, in your whole time of thinking whether you should vote, realize, that you can't actually vote, or does bluemaga logic not bother with those unimportant details?

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has admitted that it can choose whoever it wants regardless of the primaries, as evidenced by the decision to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee.

https://theconversation.com/democratic-partys-choice-of-harris-was-undemocratic-and-the-latest-evidence-of-party-leaders-distrusting-party-voters-236002

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/david-hogg-disrupts-democratic-party-rcna202202

[–] SuDmit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 hours ago

Well, that's shitty

[–] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 36 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It's not even generate a candidate that doesn't support genocide, it's literally just not stand in the way of or conspire against such a candidate, but naturally the DNC and their controlled opposition functionaries can't even manage to do the right thing by doing nothing at all.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

new dnc chair totally promises they won't this time, please pay no attention to their constant and immediate attacks on anyone in dnc trying to move the party left or learn from 2024

[–] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 13 points 17 hours ago

"C'mon Charlie, just kick the stupid football blockhead!"

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

The left should protest democrats until they put up good candidates

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 44 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not that sure that history will give a shit about US American Democrats or US American Republicans.

Those labels will be lost. "US American" concentration camps, disappearing citizens, ignoring court orders, death squads ... there will be no "oh that was just the Republicans"; it will be "oh that was just the Americans".

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 30 points 19 hours ago

And they will be right to do so. The Dems are fully complicit in enabling this.

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 14 points 17 hours ago

This meme sums up the US in a big way. No responsibility.

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