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Democrats in denial over Trump defeat, voters say: ‘Haven’t learned the lessons’
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The small concession is that Trump is almost undoubtedly going to trip over his dick, so we'll probably end up with a blue wave of some sort in 2028. Nothing will change for the DNC and no lessons will be learned, so 2032 looks bleak as shit.
We need to understand that Dems are not going to fight for anyone besides their donors. They'd rather lose than take pointers from someone like Bernie
From now on, the elections are rigged. The media is almost entirely fascist- or oligarch-controlled (to the extent that there's a difference). The courts are so corrupted that there will be no justice from them until they are purged.
But yeay, just sit there complacently and wait for the pendulum to swing. That'll work.
I've been hearing blue wave since 2016, it's almost 10 years now. Where is this blue wave, democrats barely got majorities, but hardly what I would call a wave. It's not going to happen in the next midterms, just another razor thin majority where some of the supposed Democrats vote alongside republicams to fuck over the people.
we’ll probably end up with a blue wave of some sort in 2028
Don't worry, that will get fucked up, too. A bunch of blue dogs who the DNC supports will win and they'll claim that it's a evidence that progressives can't win.
I've been through this bullshit enough times to have learned the pattern
Corporations and Republicans control the media. Putin deployed psyops on the social media of the bar room and bowling alley crowd. They controlled the narrative and will continue to control it until people wake up and realize they have become wage slaves who have a shit-hole standard of living.
If Democrats hadn't made a bunch of unnecessary and unforced errors, then we could blame it on the corpos and the Russians.
And what are you going to do about it next time? Otherwise the same thing will happen again.
Same thing they do every cycle. Move as far to the right as possible and tell anyone who doesn't like it that they will be voting as instructed because the alternative isn't second worst.
It doesn't matter that they have seen that strategy fail twice against the same guy. Centrists would rather have fascism than move to the left for any reason on any issue.
I honestly didn't hear many lefty policies
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Trump pretty much won on optics alone and positioning himself once again as looking out for people despite not being true at all. Dems didn't want to address people's issues with the economy and did the weird thing of tap dancing for right Dick Cheney voters who don't exist.
Just stand for something, even if the risk of loss is high. It pays off in the end.
Trump won on optics because the optics on the ground matched what he was saying. Democrats insisted the economy was fine when people were hurting, and lost because of that.
The slimy bullshit artist politician that lies about everything seems to be what people expect, like it's the devil they know.
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