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How has that been working?
I don't know, nobody has ever had the stones to do it for long enough to matter. How has blithely accepting neo-liberalism's theft of the 99%'s economic future been going?
I voted based on Bernie Sanders's recommendations given he is a politician actually trying to implement change.
I have yet to see any case where not voting has ever led to a system where people get what they want.
Oh no? Have you looked for any?
Yes.
Uh huh. Sure you have.
If you think that Kamala was going to stop fascism from coming to America you're out of your mind. Most Democrats don't have any issue with fascism. Look at what most of them are doing right now. They're just standing by and allowing Trump and the Republicans to do whatever they want with no challenge. They're voting in favour of his insane dept head choices. They're voting in favour of his bills. They've got fucking Gavin Newsom out here doing buddy buddy interviews with open fascists on his podcast. They're censuring their own party members who actually are actually brave and principled enough to stand up and shout down Trump for the harm that his administration has done to the American people.
The only members of the Democratic party that care are people like AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Tim Walz, and Al Green. They're the only ones going out to talk to the American people. They're the only ones standing up against Trump's agenda. The rest of the Democrats don't care because they don't really believe in democracy, they care about money and power.
Harris's VP pick is out there fighting. Where the fuck is Harris? How come she has completely disappeared from politics? Does she not care that America is falling to fascism? No she doesn't.
A Harris presidency was never going to stop fascism because she knows that her wealth and status will shield her and she never cared about the average person past what they could do for her, personally.
The only nominee with a unanimous vote is Marco Rubio, who was appointed in part to be the adult in the room. Trump has some picks that are within the realm of acceptable and there are several picks that are clearly down party lines. Also, the Senate doesn't allow fillabustering for nominee confirmations.
And if the problem with fascism is President Trump, him not being in office would go a long way to preventing fascism. After all, a lot of criticism of Biden recently has been he didn't go full liberal fascist.