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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Well that’s a gross over-simplification. It certainly wasn’t her and the DNC’s long history of clearly ignoring the needs of the people who want to vote for them while regularly reaching for “moderate” votes. It definitely wasn’t her disconnection from Walz while hanging out with Liz Cheney for a significant amount of time.

    People don’t see her as any form of significant opposition to the far-right but they do see opposing the DNC as something worth doing and I’ve come around to supporting them there. It is not their fault that the Republicans won, anyoderately sane and intelligent people would have laughed him into oblivion but the US threw tens of millions of people at Trump.










  • Where I’m at, a lack of excitement means people are apathetic and don’t feel enegaged or like their vote matters. Strategic voting and the ever right-ward shifting of the centre is a huge reason why Canada and the US are the way they are.

    You talk about being short-sighted but the only thing strategic voting has ever accomplished has been the ever right-ward shift of the center. Do you really believe that people don’t understand that there will be consequences? Do you really believe that votes made out of desparation fear are “good”? The centrist threaten the population with the alternative and they don’t genuinely represent anyone because they know you’re too scared.

    They didn’t primary Harris, they just shoved her onto the ballot and told everyone to deal with it. There is nothing good about that behaviour.


  • But you just said it right there. It wasn’t that people weren’t excited, it was because the DNC knew that people didn’t really like Biden all that much and yet kept him on way too late, then when they did switch it up they didn’t give anyone a chance. They spat in the face of democracy and I can totally understand why people are fed up and told them to go fuck themselves. I willing to bet many would have voted for Harris anyway if she had won a primary but that’s not what happened.

    Centrists are conservatives who only ever have one tactic and that’s where they threaten their voters with an even worse time so they can get away with bullshit. People are tired of that.