• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    This is what we were told in 2020. If this remains the only option then democracy is already lost since you can only vote for two genocidal maniacs instead one.

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      9 months ago

      The problem is you chuds don’t start caring until election year. If you don’t want to be stuck with the “better of two bad options” as your choices, get involved earlier in the process at the stages where picking the candidates and positions actually happens. If you’re bitching about choices in the general election and yet you weren’t part of the primary season, then you’re complicit with the problem. Change takes effort, on our part. If we give a shit, we have to be willing to do a little bit of work, and that work starts long before you walk into a polling booth in November.

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          9 months ago

          Yeah but watch the new gen still come along and whine ‘why are all the candidates old? Why cant you pick anyone else??’ while they slept through the nominations and complain how everything happens TO them.

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      9 months ago

      So you just realized now it’s bipartisan? You just started learning about American politics today?

      The other poster is right. It’s not like there’s not a lot of candidates within the two parties early on to start voting on. Waiting to kick open your car door on election day is too late. And that’s on you.

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        9 months ago

        Bernie was the only shot. That ship has sailed. DNC have shown to be in full control and will never release their iron grip on the two party system.

        I’m not quite sure how you all have any hope left after Bernie put his entire life into trying to do it the way you’re suggesting.

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          into trying to do it the way you’re suggesting.

          You are clearly lost on tracking what conversations you’re posting to.