• PugJesus@piefed.social
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    4 hours ago

    if Democrats see a third party getting 2% of the vote they’ll bend over backwards to coopt their policies, including not commiting a genocide.

    Do you not remember 2016

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Bernie wasn’t a third party. and the Democrats did all they could to torpedo him, like they do with all the candidates, they chose corporate interests over the voter base. and in doing so, sold the American government to the highest bidder.

      they betrayed you and yet you think voting for them is the solution.

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        3 hours ago

        Bernie wasn’t a third party.

        … Bernie didn’t get 2% of the vote in the general election.

        Would you like to recite, for the class, the top 4 parties and their percentages in 2016?

        and the Democrats did all they could to torpedo him, like they do with all the candidates,

        “They did all they could to torpedo him”

        Yes, they forced millions of Democrats not to vote for him in 2016

        they betrayed you and yet you think voting for them is the solution.

        You insist that the electorate is in total agreement with you because you despise the idea that democracy might be a process that functions without your approval.

        • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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          2 hours ago

          given that this is the second time Democrats lost to the most unpopular candidates in American history, it seems like most Democrat voters agree with me

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            16 minutes ago

            “Democrats lost to a far-right candidate” isn’t the win for the “The electorate is secretly left-wing” argument that you think it is.