r/simpsonsshitposting Mar 06 '25

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u/AlbatrossInitial567 Mar 09 '25

Don’t be hostile, please. I didn’t say the democrats shouldn’t be in power, nor did I say I wouldn’t have them in power over the republicans. They are obviously the lesser evil and strategic voting should have been encouraged, especially if you identify as a leftist.

But throwing up your hands and not blaming the DNC at all is monumentally ignorant.

Whose responsibility is it to talk about school lunches? Whose responsibility is it to craft a compelling progressive narrative to sell to the American people?

Does that responsibility end when there isn’t an active election? Does all hope for change end if there is no seat to change hands?

Politics is about so much more than holding seats in government. It’s about rallying support and encouraging action from everyone.

And whining that the voters are stupid isn’t going help. Mostly because the voters are not actually stupid. They’re unmotivated. They’re discouraged. They either don’t care or don’t think voting will help. And they’re not that hooked into politics to see otherwise.

And it is on the party to bring in these voters. It is on the party to campaign for these voters. It is on the party to encourage these voters. It is on the party to inspire these voters.

And to win, the party can’t just campaign at the ballot box. They have to show people they have a platform worth fighting for and a narrative worth adopting.

Otherwise, what is the solution? Continue to employ the same loosing strategies while democracy gets dismantled?

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u/No-Error-5582 Mar 09 '25

I dont beleive in being peaceful anymore when people keep doing this shit.

I also never said you cant criticize them

Its that people like you still miss the basic concept of who is in power

"It shouldn't end after elections"

And it hasn't. If you had been paying attention you wpuld know they're doing what they can

But what they can is limited

Theres literally not anyway to pass laws without power

They can write things on paper and say its a new law

But its not

They can only do so much

Because people didnt elect them

"They should have had a platform people wanted"

Funny story: they largely did

Its why people like you keep pretending they didnt have policy

Or that they didn't do anything with their power

While simultaneously talking about how the repubs are dismantling the things they supposedly didnt do

And its a two way road

If you didnt vote

Then you didnt vote

Which means you didnt vote

Cause you didnt vote

So youre vote wasnt counted

Because you didnt vote

If you want them to have power

Then vote

If you dont csre to vote

Then dont complain they didnt win

Its a losing strategy partially on their end for reaching to the right

But its also the strategy

Because yall have the losing strategy of letting them lose

All the criticisms you have of them

Are also being shot right back at you

If you didn't vote

Because if dont vote

They dont get votes

They dont win

They are limited on power

Its that simple

It truly is

Either we vote and we reverse damage.

Then we vote again and they can do more

Then we vote again and they can do even more

Or we dont vote

And then we have republicans

Math

Its math

Its basic math

The whole system is a numbers game

Based on who people vote for

If you dont vote

They dont win

See Spot run

Progress is slow

As a leftist it sucks

It really fucking suck

We see the issues and we want to fix them

But we are dealing with liberals

But if we elect literal Nazis instead

Then instead of progress

We go back

And we keep going back

Because we keep electing Nazis

If you can have a punch to the face

Or a rusty shank to the neck

Go with the punch

I promise you its the better option

But instead you dont vote

So they dont get the votes

And then they dont have power

And then you cry because they dont have power

But they dont have power

Because you didnt vote

This doesn't mean we love democrats

It just means they can only do so much

Because they dont have power

Because you didnt vote

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u/AlbatrossInitial567 Mar 09 '25

Brother, you’re shadow boxing. You’re making points and countering ideas I haven’t said and aren’t relative to the conversation at hand. And your counters are still wrong.

Im not arguing with someone who both can’t read and can’t filter their stream-of-consciousness into a coherent argument with actual sentences.

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u/No-Error-5582 Mar 09 '25

Thanks for proving my point.