• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      Voting for a centrist is voting for someone who will happily assist republicans as long as they get to also assist netanyahu.

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        If that is what it takes for American citizens to ever be able to Vote ever again, that is what needs to be done.

        You don’t understand that unless the Republicans get absolutely destroyed in the next elections, your democracy is gone!

        Once the republicans are out of the game, you can start voting for the progressives.

        Please note that I am aware that the candidates that claim to be centrist are still actually quite fascist, but because your electoral system is so flawed, this is the only option you have.

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          I understand all of that.

          I also will never trust centrist democrats again. I vote strategically, but I hate people who gloat about the situation.

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        Voting for a centrist vs a progressive in the primaries is fucked up. Voting for a centrist vs a republican in the general at least slowly reduces the ratchet effect (though sadly it’ll happen regardless).

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      Some of our “centrists” are the ones voting lock step with Republicans to do so.

      Also calling them “centrists” is just falling for the corporate psyop. They are conservative democrats. Not centrists.

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        4 days ago

        Bernie is a smart guy and has urged his dumbass supporters to vote Democrat even if they aren’t as left as him because the alternative is a fascist nightmare that will tear the country down and try to take the rest of the world with it.

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          just to be clear im a supporter of him. they are not all dumbasses. but yeah the lets not make sure the nazi party wins any election is dumb.

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      Is it? If you are starving under a NeoLib government or starving under a Fascist government, you’re still starving. What does it matter if the “centrist” is destroying their republic slightly less slowly than the republican?

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        This is the point, and what centrists don’t get.

        Doesn’t matter which SJW flag you get to fly or not to fly if you’re working 100 hours a week at three jobs and are still living out of your car.

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      No, a willingness to do it is what gives them the confidence to keep doing it. Keep up the Bernie or bust mentality until they bust.

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      5 days ago

      there are no centrists in the US though, republicans are the rabid dogs meant to make you stomach voting for more status quo establishment dems (both owned by the same oligarchs).

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        You’re right but you should probably vote for the establishment Dems if not for the sake of yourselves then for the sake of the rest of the western world, as it depends on you, sadly.