• HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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        9 hours ago

        Progressives will continue to lose until they give up their morals and descend into the muck of incompetence and greed like us fine fellows, and take the big money dick that is being offered. You’d be stupid to try any other way of winning.

        I am very smart.

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          7 hours ago

          Progressives will continue to lose because they think they don’t need to work with ideologies other than their own in a country where progressives are a small fraction of the population.

          ‘Don’t try to appeal to moderate voters! Why can’t we win elections?!’

          ‘Don’t compromise with republicans to get the votes needed to pass legislation! Why can’t we get legislation passed?!’

          ‘Is is us progressives that are to blame for our lack of progress? No it is the voters that are wrong!’

          ‘We are very smart’

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            It is unironically the voters’ faults if things go to shit in a democracy yes. It sucks that we have bad education but nobody is stopping people from paying attention.

            The point of progressives is they don’t support regressive policies

            Appealing to oligarchs and embracing the Feudal system kind of goes against their core tenants

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              The point of progressives is they don’t support regressive policies

              This is a fancy way of saying they let Trump win instead of voting in their own best interests.

              Appealing to oligarchs and embracing the Feudal system kind of goes against their core tenants.

              Are they achieving those tenants by letting Trump win?

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            If the strategy of compromising with the right, appealing to moderate voters, and sucking up to corporate donors is so effective, why did it fail miserably at stopping the fall to fascism? Are you of the same mind as the Democratic leadership, that Kamala Harris ran a perfect campaign?

            You’re making the same mistake that right-wingers make, blaming the powerless for the actions of the powerful.

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              If the strategy of compromising with the right, appealing to moderate voters, and sucking up to corporate donors is so effective, why did it fail miserably at stopping the fall to fascism?

              Because China/Russia/Iran/North Korea and the billionaire class wanted Trump to win and used their propaganda machines to influence the elections. Not to mention billionaires doing underhanded stuff like buying votes. All while progressives fed the propaganda machine with their constant criticism.

              Failing miserably would describe progressives’ refusal to work with other ideologies and thus losing elections consistently.

              Are you of the same mind as the Democratic leadership, that Kamala Harris ran a perfect campaign?

              There is no such thing as a perfect campaign.

              You’re making the same mistake that right-wingers make, blaming the powerless for the actions of the powerful.

              I’m blaming the people that tipped the scales and got Trump elected.

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                I’m blaming the people that tipped the scales and got Trump elected.

                You acknowledge the influence of billionaires and foreign governments on our political process, yet you still place the blame on progressives for criticizing Democrats for refusing to challenge those billionaires. Why?

                The progressives are the Democrats’ true base, so if Democrats are unpopular with their base and are receiving criticism from them, it’s on the Democrats to respond to that criticism and appeal to their base. If you absolutely must play the blame game, place the blame on those who had the power to do better and didn’t. You can be frustrated about the way people vote all you want, but it isn’t going to change their minds. Only the Democrats had that power, and they refused to do what needed to be done.

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        11 hours ago

        Clearly the solution is just to sell out as hard as possible since there’s no other way to win.

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          11 hours ago

          I’m not saying what is good/bad. I’m saying what wins/loses. You can be good and lose in the case of progressives. But then you can’t claim you know how to win better than the DNC.

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            11 hours ago

            I’m saying what wins/loses.

            Well, it’s a good thing we ran so fucking far to the right, then. Can you imagine if Harris had listened to progressives? She might have lost the primary we didn’t fucking have.

            She lost to Trump because she did what you wanted. Don’t worry. The party will never fucking change.

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              10 hours ago

              Democrats have won the majority of the elections since the 90s using this strategy.

              How many elections have progressives won?

              There were a lot of black/female/indian democrat voters offended that anyone would even consider a primary instead of going with Vice President Harris. All those votes would’ve been lost.

              She lost to Trump because that’s what China/Russia/Iran/North Korea and the billionaire class wanted. Whether intentional or not you’re just helping them out by scapegoating the DNC.

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                Democrats have won the majority of the elections since the 90s using this strategy.

                It’s still the 90s, huh?

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                  10 hours ago

                  Nope, a long time has past since the 90s. That’s the point. The DNC has won the majority of elections for a long time. Proving they know how to win, unlike progressives.

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                    9 hours ago

                    Then keep it up. Keep pretending that it’ll work forever. You deserve trump and only trump. After all, you want two identical fascist parties.