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Trump picks RFK Jr. , anti-vaccine activist, for Health and Human Services secretary
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It's quite pathetic how so many of these stories have top comments that all blame voters for the decades of compound failures by the Democratic party.
You have it backwards my friend, voters cannot fail the party. It's the party's job to win voters, but instead, they shed 14 million voters over the last election.
Remind me, how many users are on Lemmy?
"Individuals have no responsibility to be informed or compassionate whatsoever. That's some corporate fuckheads' role"
Why do people keep on insisting on this dumbass bullshit?
So just so we're clear here, you acknowledge that it is "corporate fuckheads" who run the DNC, but insist they aren't to blame for losing 14m votes.
In fact, it's actually my fault, your neighbor's fault, and anyone of voting age who isn't employed by the DNC.
No one asked you to fess up to not voting, but ya know what, it's not surprising
lol wut
And when he dissolves elections, like he also said he would, who’s going to win you over then.
Again, the Democratic party lost this election, not me, or any other voter.
So while you identified a potential future problem, it feels like you've misdiagnosed who's to blame for that possibility.
The Dems put up a good fight. Biden needed to leave earlier. Harris could've had an actual answer to what she would've done differently. The reality is they were fighting a huge uphill battle. We've got an extremely ignorant and uninformed citizenry with little understanding of the functioning of government. I'm talking about Americans a proud and reactionary group of people. There was zero chance after picking Kamala that the Democratic party was going to pivot from their neo-liberal views and what movement they did was towards the center.
Now that they've lost so decisively maybe we'll see a window to move the party in a progressive direction. Personally I think the Dems need to get back to supporting labor unions. If we are going to "reindustrialize" this country because we are doing war with China then we should want strong labor organization. Get some progressives to run on policies that put people first instead of property and capital.
That would probably require getting money out of politics. In the meantime focus on continuing to improve the quality of life in blue states and blue cities. As far as the voters they didn't fail the party they failed the country. We are going to see a bunch of our fellow citizens lose more of their rights.
It's so cute that you think there will be a democratic party in four years. Trump has literally vowed to persecute political opponents. That alone should've been a non-starter to voting for him, even if you agree with everything else he says. Forget about the long history of corruption, proven in a court of law, that he will now get away with, scot-free.
But think about the donors and lobbyists' bottom line
So many downvotes for such an objectively true statement. It's not "we the party" it's "we the people" if dems didn't win that's objectively the parties fault for not winning us over.