• DancingBear@midwest.social
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    20 hours ago

    Most people are not very much political or interested in politics in general.

    Most people do however support actual leftist and progressive policies.

    If any president just looked at polling and supported the implementation of policies that more than 60 percent of Americans support, or even only the issues with 70% approval (from both dems and republicans). That policians agenda would be a progressive, leftist agenda.

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      19 hours ago

      I actually agree with you. However, the right wing won, full stop unfortunately.

      Arguing “no true leftist” or “Your side” is pointless. The Right won and no amount of semantics or told you so is going to change the results.

      So when they start mass deporting or rounding up trans people we can just say “the dems didn’t run progressive enough policie for me” and wash our hands of it I guess.

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        18 hours ago

        Trump won every swing state. He lost my state and all of my states electoral college delegates are going to Harris. I could have voted for Mickey Mouse and this fact would not be different.

        Other voters in swing states had real issues with the economy, crime, and less so the genocide in Israel.

        Kamala unfortunately pivoted to the right and embraced republicans and corporate CEO’s. Why vote for republican light (Kamala) when you can just vote republican (Trump)? I assume this is what people were thinking.

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          17 hours ago

          I assume this is what people were thinking.

          I’m not sure those people exist. Lemmy seems to think they do but the electorate doesn’t reflect that at all and unless they’re ready to arm themselves and fight (and they’re not, as much as they like to talk about it online) they may as well not exist.

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            14 minutes ago

            Not sure what you are responding to. Your response is kind of vague. Voters are saying they voted on the economy and immigration among other issues. Trump was speaking to these issues while Kamala was not.

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              7 minutes ago

              Other voters in swing states had real issues with

              I’m not sure those voters exist. Lemmy thinks that they do but i don’t see any evidence that they’re real people.

              At any rate there’s little difference between not-voting and not-existing in the grand scheme so now we get to see what happens when an unashamed fascist wins and surrounds himself with yes men.

              Unless those principled non-voters are ready to arm themselves and actually agitate, they might as well not exist and we can proceed accordingly.