• blackbearjesus27@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    And yet, about half of voting Americans will actively ignore those impulses and choose a party that openly campaigns on tax reductions while it drums up fears surrounding issues they largely agree with (when presented in a non-partisan context) so does it really matter what they say?

    • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      Well to be fair they also know democrats only say they will fix the issue and then immediately do the same things the republicans do because they just cannot do without that sweet corporate cheddar.

      I figure their logic is that at least the republicans are honest about it.

      • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        do the same things the republicans

        I missed the part where the Democrats were cutting social security, Medicare, and Medicaid. And repealing the ACA. And attacking LGBTQ people. And deploying the military against American civilians. And sending people to foreign gulags en mass without trial. And attacking voting rights.

        Yep, they sure are the same.

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          1 month ago

          That was what Trump campaigned on wasn’t it? So contrary to democrats who usually don’t deliver in their promises Trump can at least says that he tries damn hard to deliver on his promises.

          I know this will be conflated to me being supportive of what he does. So let me clarify that I’m not endorsing it, I’m just stating the fact that Trump goes so far as to break the law in order to deliver his promises, while democrats work really hard to maintain the status quo even while having legal and political power to make real change. This is part of his appeal, a detail which should not be lost on democrats.

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        1 month ago

        Well, a lot of them decided the genocide half way across the world was more important than the genocide they would help to trigger back home.

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        1 month ago

        How any didn’t vote, and how many were removed from voter rolls or didn’t have the right ID or were gerrymandered or