• Rodneyck@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Great work!?!? Atta boy!?!? Keep putting the neo-libs/neo-cons in power because orange man bad! Your vote for Clinton gave us NAFTA, a free trade agreement that created the economic mess, shipping jobs overseas and destroying our industry here in the US, a nightmare that we are living through today. How many lives destroyed, tent cities has your vote created?

    By any measure, NAFTA and its sequels has been a major contributor to the rising inequality of incomes and wealth that Barack Obama bemoans in his speeches.

    Speaking of Barack, your vote allowed him to immediately pivot to bailing out banks allowing them to give their CEO’s bonuses during one of the largest housing crisis, they created btw, displacing homeowners across the country. He also didn’t really put any regulations in place to prevent this happening again, which many analyst predict will be soon. Those banks, btw, also funded a lot of his campaign. How many lives destroyed there with your vote?

    Politics is about achieving the best possible outcome, and not making personal decisions to compromise your morals.

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        23 hours ago

        Yes, Democrats suck, so you should not vote for them. You have been trying to “replace” them for decades. How is that working out for you? Your continuous “save the dems” voting has created this mess. There is no coming over to the progressive side, because the progressive side doesn’t exist in that party. The clear answer is we need a new workers party, one with a strong leader. I will continue to work towards that, but will never vote for another neo-lib/neo-con uni-party again.

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          23 hours ago

          You have been trying to “replace” them for decades. How is that working out for you?

          You too have been trying to “replace” them for decades. How is that working out for you? We’ve gotten a few elected and pushed a few more in that direction. Where is your progress? You don’t get to start the clock over every election and pretend that your approach hasn’t been tried.

          There is no coming over to the progressive side, because the progressive side doesn’t exist in that party.

          I’m talking about voters, and I think that was pretty clear. If all you do in alienate voters, then your movement is nothing but performative.