Can we just agree that the only way democracy will be saved is if we all vote Democrat in next

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I’ll be voting Republican. I don’t really care about politics all too much because I just frankly never really did, but I do care about low taxes and gas prices (I drive 3 hours per day for work) and I view the Republicans as tending to be more conducive to both. Either way, good luck to everyone in November and happy 4th 🇺🇸 !!!

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A political party fails when they focus on fear, race, class and gender. The Democrats have been doing this for decades

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Anonymous wrote:Can we just agree that the only way the democratic agenda will be saved is if we all vote Democrat in next election

Fixed the title for you, OP. Hey guess what? Not everyone values your definition of "democracy" whereby only Democrats can run their agenda. In fact, considering Republicans garner around half the national vote, such a system you propose is anything BUT democratic! What irony! I'll continue to participate in our *representative democracy* by voting for those who best align with my views: Republicans.

It's not "Representative Democracy" when you gerrymander, when you cheat people out of their votes, when you undermine democracy by promoting false Big Lies about a "stolen election" what wasn't stolen, when you steal Supreme Court seats and pack them with seats for life in a way that is totally out of kilter with the actual population and they then go ahead and start overturning laws made by the actual representative democracy. Sorry but when you vote Republican you don't get to talk about representative democracy because you don't actually support representative democracy. You support tyranny by the minority.

It's not really "tyranny of the minority" if ~half the country voted for it. It sounds like you're just mad that you're losing control of the narrative and people are seeing Dems for what they're worth. Good luck in November, sweetie.

Half the country by area, not by population.

Trump got 47% of the vote. I consider that to be about half.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll be voting Republican. I don’t really care about politics all too much because I just frankly never really did, but I do care about low taxes and gas prices (I drive 3 hours per day for work) and I view the Republicans as tending to be more conducive to both. Either way, good luck to everyone in November and happy 4th 🇺🇸 !!!

Happy 4th to you too!

These people also voted for low taxes, low inflation and cheap gas, by any means necessary.

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Anonymous wrote:A political party fails when they focus on fear, race, class and gender. The Democrats have been doing this for decades

+1 million

They can’t focus on policy decisions that appeal to most voters, so they push a narrative of fear and divisiveness.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll be voting Republican. I don’t really care about politics all too much because I just frankly never really did, but I do care about low taxes and gas prices (I drive 3 hours per day for work) and I view the Republicans as tending to be more conducive to both. Either way, good luck to everyone in November and happy 4th 🇺🇸 !!!

I’m with you. Politicians on both sides are self-serving and hypocritical.

I am not loyal to any party. That just seems silly. I vote for the party that I agree with on policy issues. And I also think we need balance in government.

Happy 4th to you also!

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll be voting Republican. I don’t really care about politics all too much because I just frankly never really did, but I do care about low taxes and gas prices (I drive 3 hours per day for work) and I view the Republicans as tending to be more conducive to both. Either way, good luck to everyone in November and happy 4th 🇺🇸 !!!

Happy 4th to you too!

These people also voted for low taxes, low inflation and cheap gas, by any means necessary.

Godwin's law in effect right here.....^^^^^

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Anonymous wrote:Former Democrat here. I’m not rewarding Democrats for:

-using women’s reproductive rights as a wedge issue
-never moving to codify Roe until we literally had a leaked draft showing Roe was over
-throwing the economy into recession
-causing inflation and ignoring numerous economists’ warnings in the process
-destroying education and setting back disabled, poor, and minority children for at least two generations
-relaunching the cold war
-eroding women’s rights by leading the charge of trans-identified men lying about biological realities and invading women’s spaces
-wasting my time with these foolish Jan 6 hearings while letting off the few defendants they indicted with slaps on the wrist
-letting that thieving traitor Hunter continue to influence peddle and enjoy ill-gotten gains
-being all around freaking incompetent, useless, money grubbing buffoons

I’m voting R to save the Democratic party. Only through massive, painful losses does this party stand a chance of making the change needed.

Good idea. Now we'll be on a fast track to the time when contraception and abortion are illegal. That is not going to be the utopia you envision. Read up on what happened when Romania outlawed them.

Democrats let things get to this point in order to exploit the situation for votes. Let that sink in.

This is true. Why on earth didn't Democrats codify abortion rights into law when Obama was president (for eight years)??

Because you don't codify constitutional rights. Which is what it was at the time

It was never a constitutional right.

The supreme Court had upheld that it was protected under the constitutional right of privacy. So yes it was seen as a right.

The same people who tell us that “abortion is protected in the constitution” also say “the second amendment only applies to muskets because that’s all they had when it was written”.


You can’t have it both ways.

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

We already have a well regulated militia that ensures the security and freedom of our nation. It’s called the US army and it’s the best in the world. We don’t need uncle Gary and his Walmart bought AR 15 to ensure the security and freedom of this country. The second amendment is very clear in its intent, it’s MAGAs who are literalist and take an excerpt of the 2nd amendment out of its very clear context.

The right “of the people”.

Not the right “of the US Army”.


Just as the first amendment protects the people’s right to free speech. Those same people have the right to keep and bear arms.

And the Ninth Amendment gives the unenumerated right of reproductive liberty and bodily integrity to the People.

It does not. The Ninth admits that rights not explicitly enumerated may exist. It doesn't state which ones exist.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll be voting Republican. I don’t really care about politics all too much because I just frankly never really did, but I do care about low taxes and gas prices (I drive 3 hours per day for work) and I view the Republicans as tending to be more conducive to both. Either way, good luck to everyone in November and happy 4th 🇺🇸 !!!

Happy 4th to you too!

These people also voted for low taxes, low inflation and cheap gas, by any means necessary.

Godwin's law in effect right here.....^^^^^

I have two words for you: Roe v. Wade.

The good Nazi’s, just like you, did not care much about politics either. Politics were too complicated and inconvenient.

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Anonymous wrote:Former Democrat here. I’m not rewarding Democrats for:

-using women’s reproductive rights as a wedge issue
-never moving to codify Roe until we literally had a leaked draft showing Roe was over
-throwing the economy into recession
-causing inflation and ignoring numerous economists’ warnings in the process
-destroying education and setting back disabled, poor, and minority children for at least two generations
-relaunching the cold war
-eroding women’s rights by leading the charge of trans-identified men lying about biological realities and invading women’s spaces
-wasting my time with these foolish Jan 6 hearings while letting off the few defendants they indicted with slaps on the wrist
-letting that thieving traitor Hunter continue to influence peddle and enjoy ill-gotten gains
-being all around freaking incompetent, useless, money grubbing buffoons

I’m voting R to save the Democratic party. Only through massive, painful losses does this party stand a chance of making the change needed.

Good idea. Now we'll be on a fast track to the time when contraception and abortion are illegal. That is not going to be the utopia you envision. Read up on what happened when Romania outlawed them.

Democrats let things get to this point in order to exploit the situation for votes. Let that sink in.

This is true. Why on earth didn't Democrats codify abortion rights into law when Obama was president (for eight years)??

Because you don't codify constitutional rights. Which is what it was at the time

It was never a constitutional right.

The supreme Court had upheld that it was protected under the constitutional right of privacy. So yes it was seen as a right.

The same people who tell us that “abortion is protected in the constitution” also say “the second amendment only applies to muskets because that’s all they had when it was written”.


You can’t have it both ways.

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

We already have a well regulated militia that ensures the security and freedom of our nation. It’s called the US army and it’s the best in the world. We don’t need uncle Gary and his Walmart bought AR 15 to ensure the security and freedom of this country. The second amendment is very clear in its intent, it’s MAGAs who are literalist and take an excerpt of the 2nd amendment out of its very clear context.

A federal government run militia was not what the founders specified.

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Anonymous wrote:How is this debate not moot since roe?
Gop stacked the court to pass a law that will literally kill women. That’s over half this country.
Hard to care about gas prices or the border if you or close family member is dead from not being able to access medical services they need

Because; and this will shock democrats and progressives alike, I am not a walking uterus. I am a whole person that is tired of being scared to take the metro because of elevated crime. I’m over paying $5+ for a gallon of gas. I am furious that schools stayed closed far to long in order to own Trump. Because I am watching men get placed into Womens segregated sex spaces on the behest of democrats and being told to shut up and take it.
Because I also believe in bodily autonomy and watching the left forcing medical interventions on people so we can feed our families and keep a roof over our head was horrible.
You think we have short memories or are single issue voters, but not all women are willing to sell our souls for abortion. Sorry not sorry.

You are incredibly stupid is what you are. Please don’t ever use that uterus. Best your DNA stops here.

^^ dem messaging right here. "Shut up, we know whats best for you, you morons." Completely dismissive of issues people actually care about like crime, schools, and the economy.

Yep, that’s the messaging. Don’t worry, it comes through loud and clear. I hear it from my Democrat friends in person and all over social media. It is an effective way to shut people down and I guess it works since Biden runs the country. But I am not a fan of the condescending, patronizing Democrats that run my county and state.

Yes, those horrid Dems are condescending and patronizing because they keep rubbing inconvenient truths in your face - how about getting on the side of truth if you don't like that happening all the time?

The arrogance of the Democrats is astounding and limitless. Your version of the ‘truth’ isn’t everyone’s. Open your mind and gather information from sources other than your own echo chamber. Keep calling those who disagree without ‘stupid’. Always a good way to win votes!

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Anonymous wrote:Can we just agree that the only way the democratic agenda will be saved is if we all vote Democrat in next election

Fixed the title for you, OP. Hey guess what? Not everyone values your definition of "democracy" whereby only Democrats can run their agenda. In fact, considering Republicans garner around half the national vote, such a system you propose is anything BUT democratic! What irony! I'll continue to participate in our *representative democracy* by voting for those who best align with my views: Republicans.

It's not "Representative Democracy" when you gerrymander, when you cheat people out of their votes, when you undermine democracy by promoting false Big Lies about a "stolen election" what wasn't stolen, when you steal Supreme Court seats and pack them with seats for life in a way that is totally out of kilter with the actual population and they then go ahead and start overturning laws made by the actual representative democracy. Sorry but when you vote Republican you don't get to talk about representative democracy because you don't actually support representative democracy. You support tyranny by the minority.

It's not really "tyranny of the minority" if ~half the country voted for it. It sounds like you're just mad that you're losing control of the narrative and people are seeing Dems for what they're worth. Good luck in November, sweetie.

Half the country by area, not by population.

Trump got 47% of the vote. I consider that to be about half.

I just wanted to point out--so that we all operate from the same set of facts--that Trump received more than 74 million votes and Biden more than 81 million for a total of more than 155 million votes cast. Importantly, 66.7% of the eligible voting population of 239 million Americans cast a vote. So it is not accurate to say that "half the country" voted for Trump/Republicans. What's accurate to say is that close to half the people who actually cast a vote voted for Trump. If everyone who was eligible and registered to vote actually voted, I think our election results would look a lot different.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/12/30/fact-check-fals-president-than-were-registered-u-s/4010087001/

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Republicans wreak havoc, Dems get voted in, inheriting what the Rs left behind, can’t fix the mess in 2 years, Rs get voted back in, and so on and so on

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The "nothing will change" and "why bother voting?" come from people who fall into groups:

Group 1: They don't really understand how government works and they don't know much history. They are just one person. They feel helpless and frustrated.

Group 2: They want the Republicans to win so they want to persuade you not to vote. Some are burn-it-down revolutionaries who think that if the Democratic party crashes and burns, a better party can replace it. Nope. If the Democratic party crashes and burns, we will sink so deeply into a Christian fascist state, that it may take decades to get out.

I guess everyone needs ask themselves if they want to live in a democratic country and that we self-govern.

Democracy (rule by the people) means that the people have to do the work, it means compromise, and it's slow-moving and boring.

Autocracy is SWIFT and exciting and thrilling, quick and satisfying (if the authoritarian does what you want). Autocrats dispense with rules and due process and GET THINGS DONE NOW.


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[Anonymous]

I don’t want to vote Democrat because in my view
- they pay too much attention to foreign policy and too little to domestic issues;
- encourage abuse of immigration system;
- encourage homelessness (by throwing money at the problem without enforcing any effective but unpopular solutions);
- increase inflation by giving out handouts (I am low income so I like that but it’s not the solution)
- too much identity politics
I hate it that Roe v Wade is even debated let alone overturned but I have accepted that America will never be a truly progressive country. And I don’t mean progressive as in using identity politics everywhere