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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Obama and Biden said they'd legalize weed. They didn't. They failed to put abortion rights into the constitution. I mean I can go on these are just off the top of my head.

They are not immune to legit criticism, however it seems like people get the idea that if you criticize democrats that means you are a die hard Trumper or something...

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 27 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Didn’t close gitmo. Didn’t end the war on terror. Created the same border camps democrats cry at the gates of for political points. Bailed out the perpetrators of one of this countries most high profile and damaging financial crimes because they held rich peoples stock portfolios hostage. Made pointless concessions on the ACA to republicans who never once cross the isle for even the things they want to pass because they’d rather take the credit themselves.

Those are the ones I’m pulling off the top of my head.

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[–] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 8 points 18 hours ago (33 children)

The Democratic Party as a whole is like milk in your fridge that's a week past its "best by" date.

The Republican Party is milk that a dog vomited on a Texas in July sidewalk.

We're drinking one of them, because no alternative is possible in the near term.

It's possible to vote for Democrats in 2026 and '28 and '30 and '32 while we build an alternative that can have electoral success, or takeover the Democratic Party from within or heck turn the Republican Party into a party worth supporting...

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[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I mean, i usually get modest upvotes when i talk about this sort of thing. I believe if we actually want to stop this fall into authoritarianism, our first step is to take control of the Democratic Party. How do you do that? Don’t vote for Neo liberals and ignore everyone who cries that unless you vote blue no matter who the republicans will win. That obviously doesn’t work, and democrats work against leftist policies. They whole time leading up to the election it was all “now is not the time” well i played their game and lost. Now it’s time.

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

The only instance I've noticed that on is midwest.social.

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 19 points 23 hours ago

I'll do you one better, I can't stand either party

I just especially dislike Republicans right now because they're in power

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today -1 points 9 hours ago

Because we are tired of arguing nuance, while out enemied threaten to literally exterminate us. At this point, any straying from the left is a profound moral failing. It's usually some kind if bigotry, or support of unscientific ideas.

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