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The Republican party deserves to die for allowing Donald Trump to rise to power. The Democrat party deserves to die for being useless to stop them. America needs a whole new fresh start with new parties
or better yet, no parties at all and force some of our morons to actually learn their candidates beyond just party lines.
Idk, I'd totally be in favor of ranked voting; with several parties that correspond to music genres where people could identify the party's values based on vibes. Ex: Acid Polka Party, Nu Delta Blues Party, Hyper Uplifting Metal Party, etc.
That will never happen.
We were within 2% of stopping them. If you bastards had got on board, we wouldn't be in this mess.
Let's blame the voters instead of our shit policy and campaign that promises them nothing much more than republican lite
I blame the owners of news and social media. How can people make good decisions if they can't perceive reality?
Would that not be better than full fascism?
I don't understand what you could possibly mean by this comment. We, as in the American electorate, directly chose fascism. What the fuck do you mean that we will see it soon enough? We didn't take the path you say also leads there eventually, the only way to tell where it leads is theory. We are never going to see the real world impacts of the choice we did not make.
Why not both.
The voters and especially the non-voters are to blame along with the politicians. Why shouldn't they be responsible for voting against their own interests or sitting it out after having seen a Trump presidency?
No fuck yes. Blame them.
Are you saying that trump won because his policy and campaign was stellar.
Trump won because his base acted instead of passively watching. They took over everything and all the left could say was "don't roll with them something something pigs"
Chaotic evil is more showy but that doesn't mean that lawful evil isn't also evil.
Na. It's the Democrats politicians fault. Send more money to Israel.
Part of me wonder if this is worth saving. We need to start over.
Where's Thanos when we need him
Or, better idea, no parties like the founders intended
But bruh if u vote for third party, it's a win for Donald Trump bruh.
It needs a new electoral system too.
Yep the one that farmers does not select president for whole United States and 6th largest economy of world aka California.
I think they bumped up to 5th recently
That was correct. Until the day the voting system changes, voting third party for anything national will be the same as not voting at all as far as results go. This isn't good, it isn't right, but it's the world we live in and the system we are operating under.
It literally was.