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Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state Senate on Saturday, flipping a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024.

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[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Something something you can’t vote out fascism something

Try voting and maybe you can

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The DNC isn't counter-posed to fascism, though. You can vote out the GOP, but this doesn't remove fascism, because the basis of fascism is capitalist decay and not this or that capitalist party choice.

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The DNC is fine with fascism. They fought Mamdani harder than they fought Trump

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago
[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

You can't vote away fascism.

If fascists allow themselves to be voted out, fascism didn't go away. It's just been put on pause until they win again.

We have to win every single election for the rest of history. They only have to install someone willing to end US elections once. Unless we solve this problem in a more permanent fashion, the fascists will always just be one more election from taking over again.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The problem is that: this will continue to happen until Republicans realize that they need it to stop happening. And by "it," I mean elections.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lol we’ve had elections through more tyrannical presidents than Trump, through every war, and you think they’re gonna cancel American elections or something?

Best they can do is cheat in the boring traditional ways

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 12 hours ago

lol we’ve had elections through more tyrannical presidents than Trump

Unreal. When will people wake the fuck up?

Save this comment exchange, and message me in November.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

There's a problem with your logic, though.

The two dozen districts that have been flipped in the last few elections were solidly Republican (nearly all won by Donald in 2024 by double digits), where attempts to restrict voting are focusing on solidly Democratic districts. In effect, the voters are behaving in ways that Republicans did not account for, so in a way, you sorta can vote out fascism, at least when the people trying to enable fascism democratically are incompetent and lack foresight.

Also why they abandoned the extreme gerrymandering effort. That is backfiring too.

Granted, if Donald decides to order the military to seize polling stations in the fall, all of that falls by the wayside, but as long as we have a system where voting is possible (and there's no good reason to assume that's changing), you can theoretically vote the fascists out. (Though I'd argue the only real choice we have right now is between fascists and collaborators.)

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The way they didn’t expect voters to behave is by actually going out and voting for democrats

America is not an easy country to actually destroy at a legal level and institute true fascism

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

is by actually going out and voting for democrats

Yup. They miscalculated big-time, assuming they had a mandate for this when, in reality, people just hated that Democrats didn't do anything to address affordability.