• CannonFodder@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It seems like you are projecting this ‘open contempt’. In an ideal democracy, a politician should state their platform and people should select the best one and vote.
    She was clearly a better candidate with better policy than trump - and if people saw that they should have voted for her. Saying ‘she didn’t pander to me enough’, or ‘wasn’t perfectly aligned with my ideals’ is stupid in the face of trump as the other option.
    Yes, she could have said a bunch of pings - she could have lied and attempted to get votes through a populist approach, and maybe that’s what the democrats need to do, as sad as it is. But that’s only because too many Americans are stupid and won’t vote for the obviously better candidate for … reasons.

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      2 days ago

      It seems like you are projecting this ‘open contempt’.

      You’re gaslighting. No “it seems”.

      But that’s only because too many Americans are stupid and won’t vote for the obviously better candidate for … reasons.

      Politicians who are interested in beating their opponents try to appeal to the electorate they have, not the electorate you prefer. And I want to make it clear, the electorate centrists prefer is comprised entirely of netanyahu clones.

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          1 day ago

          No. It’s why I voted for your shitty pro-genocide candidate instead of your very close second choice.

          Why do centrists always pull that shit out like it means anything? Genocide is still wrong even when a democrat is supporting it. Even when it’s your single favorite thing ever, which you’ve convinced me it is.