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Critique (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
 

I literally do blame the Democrats for Trump, and if you don't, you weren't paying attention.

Plenty of us were critiquing Clinton's campaign on those merits and were consistently talked down to in shocker the same way we're being talked down to now. Shocker, she lost. I remember saying a few weeks before the election "We're about to get Brexited." I put my vote down for Clinton, because Trump is fucking insane, and that was clear before he was President. It was clear in the fucking 1980's.

Being able to critique our leaders is supposed to be what is the difference between us and conservative voters. They're the cult who unquestioningly believes all the bullshit that comes out of Trump's mouth and diapers. I find it weird that people think we should be more like them in regards to our leaders like that would be a good thing.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But I feel a lot of people draw the line at encouraging voting 3rd party, not voting or voting for Trump for this election.

And here's the crux of the issue, a lot of us aren't actually doing that but are being accused of it nonetheless. We're often still being accused of being "Russian shills!" even if we profess our plans to vote Democratic and that we want people to vote Democrat, but we don't want them to be thoughtless cult followers like Trump voters. We want thoughtful, engaged, educated voters. Those voters question things, even when it's not comfortable or the best time, sorry.

[–] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean, you know what your are. Ignore the ignorant conversations and focus on the actually thoughtful conversations. The internet has its share of assholes or mistaken people, all you can do is try to reach out the the sensible people.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago

A very good perspective to have to be sure. Cheers, mate.