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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Man the Democratic Party this election cycle has just been working overtime to invite the conversational wedge between 'saving american democracy from fascism' and 'voting against Trump.'

I guess that's what the donor class wants this time: "Do nothing but vote."

[–] rDrDr@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s what they want every time. Obama had to be shoved down their throats.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

At first. He campaigned as a progressive the first time, but they soon taught him how to govern like a Clintonesque neoliberal 90%+ of the time while constantly promoting the (at the very most) 10% of what he did as president that benefitted regular people more than the already rich and powerful, their corporations and their hedge funds.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's a pretty unfair analysis of Obama, if you look at Congress during those 8 years.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not really, no. His own uninspired leadership is almost half as big a part of it as the 2010 redistricting plot. Not every bad idea or capitulation was because of Congress.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

"Do nothing but vote for who we tell you to vote for."