What do you want them to do? Barricade themselves in the Oval Office and go out in a blaze of glory?
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They held a vote over if you wanted them to do something, and democrat voters stayed home while republicans showed up. We have literally no one to blame but ourselves. Vote if you get another chance, fight for that chance if you don't.
False. The democrats ran a terrible campaign. Biden refused to step down, until it was too late to primary. They forced a candidate upon the country without a democratic process. Their campaign had terrible messaging and was tone deaf to the real situation the working class faces. They were unable to convince millions of voters that showed out for them last time to show up again. The democrats are more concerned with protecting their donors than they are protecting the working class and winning. Until you and everyone else oblivious can come to grips with this, nothing will change.
And before you say anything stupid, I voted for her.
OP isn't wrong and neither are you. Democrats didn't show up, republicans did that is why Harris lost.
But Harris lost because of everything you wrote as well.
Don't forget the last 4 years of failing to deliver any meaningful improvements for the people who voted in 2020 or even stopping republicans from banning abortion. Also a year and a half of facilitating genocide while encouraging universities to beat the shit out of the very same politically-active students who would otherwise be campaigning for the democrats.
Poor Biden and Harris right? They did their bestest but if the people dont like them then maybe they just won't talk to them anymore. Good thing we have some adults in the room.
Guess who made an absurd amount of money losing the election? Do people not realize what donations are spent on?
If I were them I wouldn't exactly have a strong emotional desire to protect the people who voted for a fascist felon over them.
Sounds like terrible leadership
In a democracy giving people what they chose is good leadership.
Of course, good managers pick sides and help push the other one off a cliff.
People who hate democrats calling for the democrats to overthrow the US government to save them after voting third party. Lol.
It's always the same tune with these "folks".
They shoot themselves in the foot and go online to lament about how they're oppressed now and it's gotta be someone else's fault.
If the US had Defensive Democracy, then maybe they could do something.
But instead, we have whoever wins (aka: gets the most rich doners) gets to become president, even if they want to violate the very oath they are about to take.
Which means that the only thing that can stop the orange idiot is one high ranking military officer having the courage to arrest him as a domestic threat to America. Although that would come with its own set of problems. In other words, we're fucked.
That would be considered an illegal coup, however ethical that act might be, it wont be legal, and thus nobody would do it. So yes indeed, we're fucked.
Idi Amin now available in a gas station near you
Didn't Eisenhower or some president warn about the dangers of the burgeoning military indistrial complex in his farewell address?
The fuck are they supposed to do!? We as Americans voted Trump or didn't vote at all. Therefore, the fascists won.
Trump got the same votes as last time basically.
Democrats didn't show up. Again.
I think too many of them felt complacent in the idea that Trump couldn't win..
Do you think it has nothing to do with perpetually online kids screaming the word "genocide" all over the internet like they know what they're talking about?
If you think the people who don't like seeing American bombs ripping children apart day in and day out were enough to swing the vote, don't you think the democrats should have listened to us?
No that's probably a lot to do with it.
Given all the "We're staying home because Kamala's bad for Palestine.... Wait Trump won? But he's WORSE for Palestine, how could this happen!?!?!"
Yeah...
Yea man, instead of just handing over the keys to the fascists they should be doing something, like creating angsty memes!
Yeah Trump won the election. That is how democracy works.
Reporter: "Would you ceded the election if you lose?"
Trump: "If it's a fair election."
The reds prepped for MONTHS if not longer to fight democracy if Trump lost. They had loads of active cases up until the election on loads of bullshit interference. Which all promptly disappeared when Trump won.
Democracy isn't the issue. It's the corruption of these rich assholes.
Also that they act in lock step, dissidents will be rooted out. So they become a (seemingly) united front, which helps immensely at systematically eroding democratic institutions or destroying political enemies
how it should work. we saw 4 years ago how that is not how it works under said fascism
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Don't blame them, blame the people who didn't vote
But also blame the DNC for running a de-energizing campaign yet again.
People who weren't energized enough by the perspective of Trump don't count as citizens anyway. I don't know what type of energy you personally wanted, but nothing will work on those who saw Trump's shitshow and decided to sit this one out because Kamala didn't dance enough or whatever
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