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  • @Kaplya
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    8 months ago

    I am telling you that polls don’t matter.

    Biden is going to promise a 20k student debt cancellation, and half of the people who talked about not voting for Biden again is going to tell you “Biden is really screwed this time, he HAS to stick to his promise this time”, and the other half will secretly go out to vote for Biden while loudly denouncing how shitty of a president he is at the same time.

    Election day comes and… Biden WINS!

    And to the surprise of no one, everyone gets rug pulled again, nothing gets cancelled and everyone now goes back to criticizing how Democrats are just as bad as the GOP and they’ll surely not vote for the Dems next time.

    Rinse and repeat, come 2028 and they’ll tell you to at least give AOC a chance.

    I’m telling you that the Democrats will win in 2024, 100% guaranteed. 2016 was a mistake and the establishment has fixed that since, in case you haven’t noticed. Trump never had a chance, and the Republicans never had a chance to begin with.

      • @Kaplya
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        8 months ago

        The ideological civil war within the Republican party ended with the take over by MAGA extremists (see Trump’s polling in the Republican primaries - yes, even though I said not to trust the poll). There is no chance that the GOP today controlled by a crazy MAGA faction can stand against the institutions of the liberal establishment.

        There is a reason why the GOP today (which is managed by a faction that is fast losing its ground in American politics) has taken more and more openly extreme stance, because the Democrat’s strategy is to eat their lunch. Who’s better at getting racist laws passed? Who supports the police force better? Who is better at expelling illegal immigrants? Who’s better at ending COVID and masking? The smart racist conservatives have already figured out that Democrats is their ticket to getting what they want.

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
          hexbear
          43
          8 months ago

          Liberalism only makes sense under periods where the empire is strong and either growing or at least stable.

          When the empire destabilizes and contracts, fascism is always the response. And we're over the hill.

          • @Kaplya
            hexbear
            10
            8 months ago

            Who says liberalism is incapable of turning fascism? The Democrats will become the fascist brand, that’s the whole point. The Republicans are finished - they have been out-flanked, very skillfully, by the Democrats and proven themselves to be the incapable ones.

              • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
                hexbear
                12
                8 months ago

                Even longer. This was said during the Reconstruction era and during FDR's administration. The Republican Party is a cockroach that seemingly dies and only ends up coming back stronger.

              • @Kaplya
                hexbear
                4
                8 months ago

                Yup and they’ve since made sure that another Trump won’t happen again.

            • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
              hexbear
              23
              8 months ago

              I'm 40, I've been hearing bright eyed, ignorant Dems say the Republicans are finished since I was first able to vote.

              They aren't going anywhere.

            • jabrd [he/him]
              hexbear
              2
              8 months ago

              I thought I came to this site to escape liberal hyperbole about fascism

        • duderium [he/him]
          hexbear
          12
          8 months ago

          There is no chance that the GOP today controlled by a crazy MAGA faction can stand against the institutions of the liberal establishment.

          starts trembling uncontrollably and repeating “2016” over and over again

    • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
      hexbear
      24
      8 months ago

      I didn't vote for Biden in 2020 and I won't go near a polling station ever again. At this point it isn't even Joe Biden, they mobilized to win the entire state of Georgia and they still didn't send a $2000 stimulus check. They are losers.

      • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
        hexbear
        17
        8 months ago

        and I won't go near a polling station ever again.

        you might have city or county races that matter, or keeping a crank off of your school board.

        • duderium [he/him]
          hexbear
          13
          8 months ago

          They’re all cranks unless they belong to a communist org.

      • PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them]
        hexbear
        14
        8 months ago

        Yeah, jokes on them. I'm never going to vote in an election. Didn't vote in 2012, 2016, or 2020. Not even going to bother with down ballot votes. No point to it.