If only they spent nearly as much energy combating the republicans
this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2024
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We are going after republicans by attacking independent parties, sweetie 
no can do, we need a strong republican party
every country needs a left and a right wing!
In the meantime, USA:
Or you could just try not sucking so hard that tiny 3rd parties can "spoil" races for you.
Iβm just here to lodge my support for the format of posting just the punchline and the blank meme
ehhh you get the idea
It's often enough to simply say "guy thrown out window for good idea meme" or whatever
The Libertarian got more votes than the Green Party candidate. If they had banned all third parties, those voters probably would have went R and the Dems would still have lost.
Libertarian at least also are anti-genocide 
Yeah but only because it would cost them too much money
Somehow that's a better argument than watching libs rotating around black hole named empire, and acting like bibi-masterfully-lied-to-us smoll beans
I don't know anything about that race but I'm willing to bet nonvoters outnumbered Green Party voters by at least one magnitude.
Okay for shits and giggles I looked it up. Sources some local news and nbc. Keeping in mind Casey (D) lost by a margin of 15,115 votes:
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Total registered voters in PA: 9,161,978
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Total votes cast: 6,963,137
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Nonvoters: 2,198,841
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Green votes: 66,388
Also just looking at Democrats specifically:
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Registered Democrats: 3,971,607
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Votes for Casey (D): 3,384,180
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D voters who sat home: 587,427
But yeah Green voters totally cost you that election bro
The monstrous Greens gobbled up almost 1% of the vote. Is the DNC afraid they'll break the 1% barrier or something?
Is my math right?
0.95% of the vote, which NBC generously rounded up to 1.0%.
Try taking the gloves off against the fucking Republicans
Wild to assume that the votes cast for the GP candidate would have defaulted to D. I hate it here.
The party who's only appeal is a protest vote against the Democrats?
The Green Party exists to do lesser evilism if you can't vote PSL.
Wonder why they don't go after Republicans as aggressively as they do "Republican enablers" 
Republican-enablers'
levels off the charts, just like the hitler particles 
and what's up with that ' ? Was that just a typo or is there some arcane grammatical nerd reason for it?
Possessive, referring to the infrastructure (object of the verb dismantle) owned by the rep-enablers. Hence rep-enablers' infra
π€βοΈ signing off
I mean there is tons of libs who blame KPD for NSDAP victory, so this is the level of political education in US mainstream.
"This party cost us an important election, we will ruin them"
"Oh, so they won?"
"No...."
It is known: democrats do not value democracy, they value control.
they don't even care about control all that much, in terms of winning races and seats. they care about absolute control within their own party, but don't really mind if they're in the wilderness fund raising for years
Control of what? The party? The ability to keep the donations flowing?
The one thing the Democratic party has going for it is absolute whip control over membership and reps.
You rarely see Democratic reps stepping out of line. With some exceptions from independents running as Dems.
The Republican party is a disorganized mess by comparison.
(This is by no means an endorsement of the Democratic party, and more just an observation of how they all fall in line immediately when given orders)
The Manchins, Sinemas, Fettermans and Liebermans of congress might seem like they are acting out of pocket, but they all take orderly turns as the rotating villain to block anything that capital doesnβt like. They are still obeying the Democrat leadership
It's all a play. The Democrats are terrifyingly good at operating as a hivemind. The Republican party is trying to achieve the same thing by closing ranks within their party and following godking Trump. When he dies in the next 2-4 years, they won't have anything or anyone that can hold them together.
Meanwhile the Dems can operate on autopilot and just do exactly what the donor class wants with basically no input because they're led like dogs from the media and donor events.
James this is ridiculous. The Green Party and the libertarians are allowed to exist on the ballot
The job of the DNC isnβt to teach a political science class - itβs to win elections. Nothing more, nothing less.
no YOU'RE enabling the Nazis 
send the troops 
when you believe in Democracyβ’
Where wer yuo when democracy was kil :(
Lol the gloves were never really off to begin with but okay