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Who said I'm blaming? I'm informing protest-non-voters what they voted for. Honestly, that you feel/think blame is telling.
I'm not American, and I've advised people to vote blue no matter who for over 20 years, so as a foreigner watching America slide towards fascism for decades I can tell you, American liberals are just as much to blame for fascism as the uneducated morons brainwashed by it.
Both parties have been destroying the working classes economic mobility for almost 50 years. Just because 1 party is worse than the other that doesn't absolve either of their sins.
Yet now, at the final hour, you blame a phantom left for not biting the pillow, as though that would've changed the multi-decade fall of the empire.
I tell ya what, though. Just cry harder and blame the left. It's worked for fascism!
"D-don't blame people who allowed fascism to take over... that's mean... but FUCK those who tried to stop it, literally as bad as fascists!"
About the level of discourse I expect from Lemmy at this point.
I’d say the big issue was being okay with the status quo for Democrats. A Republican administration would come in, set us back in several regards. Then the Democrats come back into power and shrug things off for a number of issues. For sure there were a number of problems they tried to fix and were focused on, but when the number of votes just aren’t there you gotta focus on the things you can fix. The main issue Democrats have allowed to simmer for some God forsaken reason and has made future problems was not trying to revert/amend the No Child Left Behind policies, the defunding of education, and not trying to bring back and expand the Fairness Doctrine to apply to all social media, including influencers.
I'm sure there are places on the Internet where you could sell that "ghost" story, but Lemmy during the runup to the election was like 45%+ people arguing for protest votes and vote abstaining as a means of "punishing" Democrats for a millenia-old religious feud on the other side of the world. Obviously this isn't physical, definitive proof that protest voters and abstainers actually moved the electoral needle for Trump, I'm just letting you know why no one's really buying it here.
So... your argument has no evidence or basis in reality, beyond the anecdotal from your own experience on Lemmy/SM?
All you've done is provide another datapoint for why Liberals have helped turn America into a fascist dictatorship... Living in a manufactured reality based on feefees and propaganda instead of empiric evidence...
Lol you're still on the blame strawman. Again, I am informing protest- non-voters what they voted for. That you keep trying to strawman this hard even after being corrected is funny. Ciao.