Democrats have all the spontaneity of the House of Windsor. Or, closer to home, they’re closer to what Republicans once were, a party that falls in line not in love.

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    Part of me just wants trump to win just so the groups looking to ‘punish’ Biden for not doing their will will have a blast under another 4 years of trump. You vote with your head for the good of the country as a whole, not with your emotions for the whims of your clan.

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      Personally, I think the potential of schadenfreude is not a good reason to want Trump to win the election.

      But then I don’t want my queer daughter sent to a “conversion therapy” camp.

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        If Democrats care about your daughter, they would have run a better candidate.

        As you acknowledge, the stakes are incredibly high, so why would we run the only person polling poorly against Donald Trump? I hate to tell you, but they don’t give a damn about your daughter.

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          Oh, okay, I guess I should be fine when Trump’s goons march her into a camp then because the Democrats didn’t run a better candidate. My mistake.

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            Right, direct that anger towards the real problem here. The Democratic Party, who sat by while it happens.

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                Its in their nature. We cant throw our hands up and let them get away with it. I blame the adults in the room for letting the child run rough shod

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              So I shouldn’t be angry at Trump and his people for doing it?

              Is this like being angry at Chamberlain for allowing Hitler to start WWII and ignoring the fact that Hitler started WWII.

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                There is absolutely a historical case to be made that appeasement was a fatal error leading to the rise of Nazi Germany.

                We cant blame snakes for being snakes. What we need is some snake wranglers. We’ve had 4 years to prevent Trump and did nothing.

                We get what we deserve

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                    Considering we might literally lose our country to fascism, no it wasn’t good enough.

                    The stakes are simply too high for failure, any amount, period.

                    It feels like nobody is taking this seriously. You have the last poster and the very same breath talking about the death camps coming for their daughter, and even they don’t seem to be taking it seriously.

                    It’s all about to crumble down and we’re not asking for what needs to be done to fix it.

                    For God’s sake, I remember progressives accurately complaining about merrick garland when he was appointed telling Biden it was a very bad appointment.

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      We’ve been given the choice between an insane fascist and an ethnic cleansing apologist. That the second is the “good” option is utterly shameful.

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        Don’t get started on the climate. No matter who wins the US will break its own oil production record.

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      So…

      In your mind, the people screaming their voices raw that Biden is an unpopular candidate, and could lose like Hillary did in 2016…

      If they’re right, and Biden does lose, you’re going to blame them for trying to warn everyone before it was too late to change candidates?

      That’s the same logic that got medicine women burned as witches when they said somone won’t survive an illness.

      Like, I see that shit all the time here, it never makes any sense, and when I try to get someone to explain why they think that, I usually just get some weird insult or no reply at all.

      When covid broke out, were you also yelling at scientists to shut up because as long as you weren’t aware of the danger you thought it couldn’t hurt you?

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        If they’re right, and Biden does lose, you’re going to blame them for trying to warn everyone before it was too late to change candidates?

        Democrats would rather lose and have someone to blame than move to the left.

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          If they lose to a Republican, they’re back in power in 4-8 years.

          If they lose to a FDR style Dem, then they may never get power of the party back.

          That’s why the DNC fights progressives harder than republicans.

          Meanwhile progressives are trying to stop fascism and our own side keeps tripping us and then lecturing us while the fascists keep on marching.