• Æsc@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    First-past-the-post voting incentivizes voting against the candidate you don’t want to win by voting for the candidate most likely to beat him. So scaremongering about the other candidate is a strategy often used to great effect. Trump used scaremongering against Hillary in 2016. Trump’s using scaremongering against Biden now. George H.W. Bush famously used scaremongering about crime to win.

    Also their platforms are not the same. Trump has Project 2025.

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      • Æsc@lemmy.sdf.org
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        9 months ago

        I thought you were the one who said the Democratic and Republican platforms are the same. Now you're noticing that the examples of winning with scaremongering are all Republican wins. Are you doing a bit?

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    • Mokey [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      The fascist are always going to have been scary rhing that make liberals fascism more palletable and swallowable, even if its in someways worse than the big scary republican bs. Lets just fuck off that whole thing completely

    • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      And the democrat platform is to let Republicans install planks of Project 2025 while Democrats have the ball; so fuck that line of thought too lmao. You're not cudgeling this out for your genocidal dixiecrat.