cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/40905844

With some prominent Democrats and liberal pundits arguing for the party to try to win Elon Musk back to its side, you have to ask: Is American politics simply a matter of who can best kiss the ass of narcissistic reactionary billionaires?

  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    No I’m not. You people are like lemmings. One of you says a thing and then that’s like your go to retort. Need like a David Attenborough for the digital age that can see these copy paste retorts in the wild and categorize them all.

    I’m well aware they’re not the left. But I’m a political climate where there’s Republicans and Democrats you don’t have many options.

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      If someone tries to you into a false dichotomy, the correct move is to call them out.

      If you want to comply with a political party that you yourself said “sucks”, that’s your perogative. I’ll be over here with everyone else whom the Democrats have failed to represent.

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        4 days ago

        Well maybe that is the reason both political parties have moved further and further to the right

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            4 days ago

            That’s what a lot of you keep telling yourselves to self soothe all the failures

            There’s always excuses. But the fact is the left lost the plot a long time ago.

            Hey, here is another example. The left can’t ever set it self up for success. Chase all the money and power away. Then wonder why there’s been a steady decline.

            https://lemmy.world/post/31156021

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              Your logic doesn’t explain why that trend has persisted since these two parties were founded. Much easier just to wave the whole issue away by blaming the people who aren’t represented by the two-party system, right? They should change their politics to match the party and not the other way around, right?