• duhbasser@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    Yea I can’t say I’m surprised but at the same time they skewed more right wing from this last election, so the economic policies being implemented by Trump, and the ramifications it’ll have on their socio-economic status, is something they voted for. Kind of hard to feel bad for a generation that’s shootings themselves in the foot.

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        6 hours ago

        I agree with the sentiment, but we need to educate and unite. Not sow further division amongst ourselves.

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          6 hours ago

          This is the rhetoric used to try to guilt leftist into voting for Neoliberals.

          How about this time you just follow the leftists instead of having control?

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            I mean absolutely no offence in this response, but if I might articulate myself further. The enemy of progress and the cause of this most egregious regression in The United States is division. Holding idealised standards of how political parties should be in the current political climate, is disingenuous virtue signalling and disregards how politics work(s)ed in America with AIPAC, corporate lobbying and a two party system of First Past The Post elections. I am not telling you you’re wrong, quite the opposite. I agree with you. I am instead asking you to contextualise your (valid) outrage into the broader scope of American politics. If we do not defeat the orange menace, there will never be any progressives holding office, ever. You are right to want further change, but right now our division only serves the ruling class. The fact is, at this moment in history, you cannot get elected to any federal office of the United States without the support AIPAC. It is wrong, it is unjust, it serves the purpose of warmongers, I understand. As does the act of poor Americans purchasing cheap clothes imported from China. Yet, there is no choice for the poor who rely on them to clothe themselves and their children. I see you comment a lot and I am glad to see that, because you obviously care. I recognise your frustrations with Centrist Democrats. Of course they’re impotent, they themselves are multimillionaires, just trying to hold on to their investments and not have their families disappeared. Spineless. Democrats are always targeted for their failings, both by republicans and from within the party and support is often split because of it. While republicans disregard all criticism and stay united through their hatred and obfuscation of the truth. They live with this absurd cognitive dissonance and they still won, because they are united. You can be right about everything, without also serving the purposes of our enemy. If they prevail, when they finally crush every last one of us. It will be because there was no united opposition. It does not matter how correct you are today my friend, being right won’t matter. “I told you so” means nothing in Hell.

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              The Neoliberals have had 50 years to grow balls and push and PASS policy that helps regular people.

              They don’t

              This is intentional. Their doners are literal billionaires

              This isn’t hard to figure out.

              This has nothing to do with moral superiority ffs, i want my fucking society to benefit me and other poor people again, and Neoliberals help block that progress at every opportunity.

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      9 days ago

      “Right now, too many people across the UK are living without a financial cushion or are burdened by debt,”

      I doubt anyone in the study voted in the US elections.

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      9 days ago

      This article wasn’t about the US, but in terms of the US:

      The margins dipped, but they didn’t flip to voting for Trump overall

      18-29 year-olds voted Harris+4 overall and Young women in particular voted Harris+18

      Headlines are often misleading about changes within group voting patterns

      https://circle.tufts.edu/2024-election