• Suite404@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I’d have agreed with you pre-2025. But I could see it now. The Dems have been letting us down over and over again. We need a party that cuts out billionaire money and promises to enforce the same on all politicians once they take power.

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      5 days ago

      The problem is, it is very hard to win elections without money. So a party that cuts out billionaire spending is less likely to win while also splitting the dem vote.

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        The Democrats wanted to tax the rich and they still got way more donations than Trump, but all of that pales in comparison to buying out Twitter.

        You don’t have to be poor to see that Republicans are a threat to us all.

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        5 days ago

        Democrats outraised trump and still lost.

        You need to not tell your voters to fuck off if you can imagine that.

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          5 days ago

          The DNC didn’t have foreign bot farms and billionaires on their side.

          Elon literally bought votes but you don’t count that when you say “outraised Trump”.

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            The DNC didn’t have foreign bot farms and billionaires on their side.

            I know! Maybe if they abandon everyone that you don’t care about and focus only on the bot farms and billionaires that you do care about, they’ll win!

            Democrats can’t keep moving to the right like you want them to. They hit a wall. They peeled off none of the republican votes you envy. But they got to throw people you hate under the bus, so it’s good for you.

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              4 days ago

              They’ve literally won the majority of elections since the 90s by appealing to moderates. They lost in 2024 because Russia had a war at stake and billionaires didn’t want to get taxed. Add in inflation from the pandemic and you have a tough campaign to win.

              The argument that democrats can’t win without the left is not based on reality.

              Dems tried to appeal to leftist and they screeched “genicide Joe” until Trump won.

              Meanwhile republicans won because voters to the right of leftist know the importance of not shitting on the candidate they want to win.