It’s absolutely absurd how no one mentioned how regressive Harris’s platform actually was.

Zero mention of universal healthcare. She acted like that concept doesn’t even exist. America needs healthcare in the worst way. My girlfriend has diabetes and it’s so rough to pay for it all.

She also basically sprinted backwards in terms of fighting climate change. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing when she was debating with Trump and they were both yelling over each other about who was more pro fracking. Fucking insanity.

Not to mention that her border policy was even harsher than what Trump wanted in his first term. Does anyone else not remember how outraged we all were about the kids in camps being separated from their parents? But when a Democrat does it all of the sudden it’s a good thing? Fuck that.

You are misunderstanding how the system is supposed to work.

We have a responsibility to vote, but no candidate is owed a vote.

The government is meant to execute the will of the people. That’s why we live in a democracy. That means that the government is supposed to work for you. The politicians are supposed to essentially be public workers that are hired via votes of the citizens.

These public workers are supposed to be a reflection of the will of the people. If they don’t match what we want, then they don’t win.

No one is owed our votes. They are supposed to earn it.

That’s not how this works. It is not a voters duty to vote for a candidate. The voter does not owe a candidate votes.

Giving someone your vote is like giving them your personal political power. That’s why the popular vote works.

The responsibility is on the party to put forth appropriate candidates that reflect the will of the people. It is up to them to sell themselves to us, not the other way around.

In a democracy, all power is derived from the will of the people. They work for us. Not the other way around.

It is up to the party to deliver appropriate candidates that will accurately reflect the will of the people.

No one is saying that. It’s just blatant corruption in front of the entire country for everyone to see.

This country will never, ever prosecute a president because it would set a precedent of holding our politicians accountable. Ain’t happening. We’ve all been watching Pelosi do insider trading for decades.

Lmao so capitalism only works when it’s HEAVILY regulated.

I hate to tell you this, but you’re saying that capitalism only works when it’s not capitalism.

I’m very sick and tired of being punished by the DNC for not falling in line.

Like why did they not make Ruth Bader Ginsberg retire before Trump got into office? How could they have not seen that one coming? Everyone saw that happening apparently except for the DNC.

Same with codifying Roe v Wade. They had many opportunities to codify it and then they supply did not. Now it’s gone.

Same thing with running the oldest presidential candidate of all time. When people started calling for him to step down, the DNC acted like there was so contingency plan for an 80 candidate.

And then it was the same shit when they ran Harris. She was so unpopular in the last primary that she had to drop out before any votes were cast. Then they just skipped the primary and ran her as the candidate anyways. Then she lost.

The DNC acts absolutely hapless.

Lol we are in agreement about something and you’re still mad about it.

That’s all I need to know.

Is it that absurd? Sure Trump’s campaign is dripping with much more overt hate and racism, but if you think that the party that welcome DICK CHENEY with open arms and paraded him around isn’t doing something wrong then I can’t help you.

Also the mods removed my comment, so how wrong can I really be?

I think you misunderstood my point because you actually just said what I meant but with more clarity.

Whataboutism at it’s finest.

Blame everyone else and don’t you dare criticize our perfect party.

Yes. Yes I am.

The Democrats have been ineffectual at best, complicit at worst.

The DNC also actively shuts down all grassroots movements, and any third party. So they don’t allow their competitors to exists, and then they do nothing while they’re in power.

Am I the only one that remembers what it was like before 2016? Am I the only one noticing the slide away from democracy no matter who is in power?

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Are you familiar with the term “political theater”?

It’s where a politician says one thing and makes a big show about something, and then does the opposite.

Why would anyone be scared of the geriatric lame duck president yelling at them?

And why didn’t this administration reverse Trump’s tax cuts for the rich or actually do a damn thing about it?

You’re being lied to and you’re believing it.

And Kamala is so pro corporate that she is one of the biggest and most effective proponents of California’s prisoner slave labor.

Who do you think it’s using this prison labor? Who is the beneficiary of not having to pay their workers?? Could it possibly be the giant corporations that run American???

Acting like I’m the one that doesn’t know what I’m talking about is laughable.

It sounds like you have very little knowledge of any political theory. The basis of democracy is that power HAS TO come from the will of the people. The people exist first, and then we make government. It’s not like someone set up a tent in the middle of a field and people come up and apply to be governed.

If a party is losing elections like this, then it means that they are not representing the will of the people. That means that they are failing at their job, which is to represent and execute the will of the people.

Why else would we pay taxes and give a huge portion of our money to the government? Remember, taxes come from us. The US Government doesn’t magically just have unlimited money. They get money from us, and they are supposed to spend how we tell them to.

You’re talking like we have some sort of set ruling class, and all of us little peasants failed our lords and ladies because we didn’t vote hard enough for them.

That’s an extremely authoritarian view of government that borders on being pro aristocracy. Kind of like feudalism.

Acting fed up with me and like you’re so much smarter than me that you can’t even explain your position is such an amateur attempt at covering up your own lack of knowledge.

Do better.

No it wasn’t good enough.

Harris offers essentially the same platform as Trump.

I know that’s going to upset y’all, but she wants the same things but with a different aesthetic.

Looking at her immigration policy tells you most of what you need to know about her. Look at her stance on the genocide. Look at her stance on the environment and fracking. It’s all the same as Trump.

So yeah, you’re goddamn right it’s not good enough.

Are you forgetting that she was in office when she said she was going to make a ceasefire? Why didn’t she do it then? Where was that?

And show me her plan to tax the rich. She is a blatantly pro corporate candidate.

And they just threw the weed thing in there at the end because it was becoming very obvious that her platform was massively unpopular. She famously was super hard on people being arrested for marijuana charges when she was a prosecutor.

You’re doing a whole lot of assuming there. I absolutely vote in the primaries.

Accusing me of wanting Trump in office is just dead wrong.

This is why the DNC fails. Y’all instantly attack anyone that doesn’t “fall in line” and immediately alienate them.

It’s honestly a bit pathetic that you can’t even hear any criticism of the party.

A McCarthyist says what?

Ugh. This is such a toxic attitude.

Dissent is a good thing. Criticizing yourself is necessary to prevent rot.

Claiming that anyone that disagrees with the party lines is a Russian or a Trump supporter is insane and smacks of McCarthyism.