• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    The Democrats, in the eyes of liberals, can only be failed, they cannot fail of their own accord. Now, more than ever, is a good time to start reading theory, as many liberals are disaffected by the US election. I wrote an introductory reading list for Marxism in case anyone wants one.

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      This wasn’t the Democrats being failed, it was the whole country being failed. It wasn’t about voting for the Democrats, it was about voting against Donald Trump, and there was only one way to effectively do that. Everyone who refused to do that got exactly what they voted for with Trump, whatever ends up happening, but rather than accepting that maybe this was the worst option, they’re just posting memes about how everyone didn’t push back against the democrats hard enough, so I doubt it’ll sink in.

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        Do you think continuing the slide into fascism as Capitalism continues to decay is a good thing? If not, how do you plan on stopping it?

        The fact of the matter is that the Democrats ran to the right of Biden in 2020 and committed fully to genocide. They lost the support they had, and they lost enough to lose the popular vote as well as electoral college. This was a massive failure, and if your plan was simply to vote Dem and hope for the best, then it’s clear that your plan A failed. What’s your plan B?

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          What’s your plan B?

          What’s yours? Since letting Trump get elected was apparently Step 1, what’s Step 2? Where are we going now? Come on, fill us in.

          Or, alternately, stop putting words in other peoples’ mouths and consider that what we have now is worse for everyone than the alternative would have been.

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            I didn’t get Trump elected, lol. Even if I wanted to, I couldn’t. The election isn’t a part of any Leftist’s plans.

            The answer is revolution, as it always has been, and that starts with organizing. I’ve even made an introductory Marxist reading list that has gotten several people to read theory, and hopefully join Leftists in organizing. Yes, I did link it at the beginning of this convo, and no, you didn’t click it, otherwise you’d know what my plan is because I spell it out.

            What’s your plan? Endlessly critique on Lemmy and blame voters for the failures of the DNC?

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              I didn’t get Trump elected, lol.

              And this right here is our unresolvable ideological difference. You refuse to consider that by not voting for the better option, you’re partially responsible for what we have now. Good luck with your revolution, I guess. We have nothing else to discuss.

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                You don’t know who I voted for, and it doesn’t matter. I could have voted De La Crúz, Stein, Oliver, Harris, Trump, any of them, and it would not have made a shred of difference, and unlike you, I have planned for that already. You still haven’t told me your plan, so I guess I was right, it really is just to whine on Lemmy and blame voters for the tremendous and historic failure of the Democratic Party to connect even somewhat to the working masses and thus garner support.

                In the future, when Capitalism has decayed further, you’ll likely become radicalized and seek to understand this process, and I’ll be right here.

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                  I don’t care if they did or didn’t; I find them to be completely insufferable and have no desire to engage with them further.

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                    What, exactly, is insufferable about me asking you what your plan is when you come attacking me of your own volition? It wasn’t like I reached out to you, you whined and left when you couldn’t articulate a point yet I could and did.

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            Not letting Democrats run a Nazi candidate was step 1. Liberals failed that.

            Should have pushed back like I did so Genocrats would have changed course before it was too late. Instead Blue MAGA condoned it all and silenced dissent.

            This is the result of capitulating every demand because “But Trump”.

            Ironically “But Trump” is what got you Trump.

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              This type of rhetoric is why I and many others just cannot take you folks or your views seriously.

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          Everyone always talks like defeating Trump in the election is the end-all be-all of the disussion. Voting Democrat and preventing Trump from taking the white house should have been an obvious step. It is not the best outcome for the election, nor is it the end of the ongoing decay of late-stage capitalism into wealth-based fascism, but all this whataboutism and strawmanning Democrat voters as believing Kamala was going to single-handedly save democracy is disingenous. It was never “Plan A”. It was one minor, marginally better compromise in the collective of shit we should be doing.

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            Voting Kamala failed. The Democrats failed to run a campaign that won. That is in the past. What I am saying is that voting Democrat did not work, so I am asking what their plan actually is, if voting Dem wasn’t plan A then what is?

            Leftists already have a plan that isn’t contingent on winning a presidential election. Do liberals?

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        This wasn’t the Democrats being failed

        Correct.

        it was the whole country being failed

        Exactly, by the Democrats.

        It wasn’t about voting for the Democrats

        Hence why people didn’t vote for Democrats. They had no reason.

        and there was only one way to effectively do that.

        Do you think it was about voting democrats. You just think they should be able to do literally whatever they want, including genocide.

        they’re just posting memes about how everyone didn’t push back against the democrats hard enough

        More like they’re posting about how the Democrats should have listened when we were posting the same things before ethe election, but you not only willfully ignored us, you distanced yourself. Now that it over and we were right, you’re mad at the messenger.