Because no matter who wins, the DNC does the same shit. They continue the same RNC policies and programs they vocally decried during the previous term, but quieter, they expand US surveillance, military budget and expand the tools of oppression, they do fuck all to truly address the material conditions of the working class and we just get to watch the rich get wildly richer.

The DNC just… doesn’t help people. They just act as a way to lower the temperature away from revolutionary acts, but food, housing, education and medicine just keep getting more expensive, wages are utterly detached from productivity, they don’t get money outta politics and they won’t stand up to protect the rights of Americans.

They know damn well what candidates and policies are popular and they continuously pander to the donors instead of the hard working people that make this country turn.

Heck, whenever they do have a chance to actually work like an opposition party, there’s always conveniently juuuuust enough DINO members to stymie any actual progress. That way the rest of them can throw their hands up and say “ohhh we tried, but it’s their fault, I’m actually on the side of the people!” Bullshit!

They concede power to fascists again and again and make nothing more than milquetoast “resistance” to it and even exacerbate it in plenty of examples.

Biden was an utter failure. He was all talk. He didn’t act to enshrine Roe v. Wade into law, he slept on his promises about minimum wage, he could only give modicum to support to union workers fighting for better working conditions and he did nothing to stop the rise of fascism in his country.

Call me crazy but I think it’s on the DNC to run candidates with policies people like moreso than it’s the people should be demanded to vote for whoever they run. The latter policy has done nothing to help the working class American in the past 30 years, at least, it’s no shock they’re tired of it.

I think people would trust the DNC again if they started doing things to help people instead of just function as a halt to leftward politcal progress when it’s their turn.

As it stands, I really don’t care what they say they stand for or do, I don’t really trust the DNC to do much of anything other than maintain the status quo and quietly expand the RNCs horrors.

Not that my vote even matters in our wildly broken election systems. The vote always goes to the DNC candidate and has done so for nearly four decades.

There’s really just no way to actually vote for supporting the worker in the US. Hoping for change from Congress or the President is a fools gambit.

There’s no need for a plan, they just ask ChatGPT to make one up on the spot.

There’s your problem!

Hey they got one of those Nazi tattoo guys and they’re telling me I gotta believe he’s practically Karl Marx!

I don’t think you understand addiction and it’s causes if you think it can be mitigated by education alone.

The issue with substance abuse isn’t that people don’t know that nicotine, alcohol or methamphetamine is wildly addictive.

You’d think they’d start making it easier to believe they’re not controlled at this point…

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Hey I think I played a goofy JRPG about this…

I dunno how to tell ya that queer-coded terrorist is gonna win vs stodgy doctor 9 outta 10 times.

…sorry dude… I mostly remember my energy costs going up year after year.

It just feels like they’re not on our side and they leave the working man out to dry every time they get an ounce of power.

I mean, I don’t really care about things being done “the right way” or whatever, the Republicans do just fine implementing their agenda, even if it’s riddled in lawsuits and stymied later, they do it in the moment. If the DNC was doing that, but, like, with helping people? I think I’d be more sympathetic.

They just seem like they wanna maintain the status quo and never undo any of the horrors that the RNC implemented. Heck, they even exacerbate some of em.

It’s hard to feel like they’re really an opposing party in anything but rhetoric.

Choke!

Nnnnnnot really…

Most Americans are more concerned about the material conditions of their lives and the DNC repeatedly drops the ball on improving any of that. If they turned that around, they might win elections.

Like, don’t get me wrong, I think climate change is important and needs to be addressed, but also wages have been utterly detached from productivity for decades while the rich keep getting wildly richer, my rent, food prices and medical costs are skyrocketing, and I’ll likely never be able to afford a home because the previous generations and massive companies are using living spaces as speculative investment. Education prices are batshit insanely high compared to other developed countries, our intercity infrastructure is lost in the last century compared to places like Europe and China, I could go on and on!

And the DNC isn’t doing anything about that.

Edit: or, hey, here’s a crazy idea, maybe doing fucking anything to safeguard the nation from the rise of fascism? Naw? Oh, you’re expanding ICE and building more concentration camps? Alright cool DNC thanks, yeah do nothing and demand my vote anyway

Yeah your meme is unclear.

Also I think the DNC has the onus to run candidates people want to vote for moreso than people be obligated to vote for the party that fails them repeatedly.

I’m kinda with the other person that replied to my post, here, there’s not a lot of evidence that the DNC actually does want to make things better for people, outside of rhetoric and maybe a few platitudes of niche policies from time to time.

Though, admittedly, who I vote for personally is utterly irrelevant in our wildly broken electoral systems because of where I live.

Yes, that’s largely what I’m getting at. The meme suggests these very left leaning Democrats who don’t feel there is a fundamental difference between the parties are then voting Republican and I just don’t see that happening.

Then the other things seem more useful for you in particular.

I find this one a bit baffling.

The only people I hear argue that the DNC and RNC are effectively the same are not people who are voting for the RNC.

That’s a great suggestion! They also tend to host specific exhibits and events that give good opportunities to meet people with similar interests.

Plus they’re just fun. One in a small city by me has an exhibit on local glass manufacturing techniques from the previous turn of the century and how some were invented locally, comparing them to ceramic techniques from across the globe and time. Absolutely fascinating stuff.

I ain’t buying a PlayStation. It won’t happen.

Hey, I’ve also made long term friends from underground raves/sex dungeons. It’s a totally valid way to make friends. Like so many other methods, you already have a shared interest, that’s a springboard to explore if you’re otherwise compatible as buddies.