• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Responding to this loss with “the only way to win is to be racist” is basically just giving up and saying the fascists are right.

    And the joke is that Dems will still lose on these terms, because they are already branded the Woke party. Might as well try and out-racist the KKK as the GOP. It’s not a race Dems are in a position to win. All they can do is shed even more of their base to Jill Stein.

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      1 month ago

      What’s hilarious is the Dems are branded as woke not because of their politicians but because of their average voters are. You can convince a conservative voter that a (D) politician is not woke but they still won’t vote for him because only woke people vote (D). Dems would have to purge some of their most fanatical supporters to win those conservative votes.

      Imagine suggesting the Democrats tell people with the “In this house we believe…” signs to take those signs down. For some reason people are taking this suggestion seriously instead of immediately dismissing it as either inane babbling or deliberate sabotage.

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        1 month ago

        Dems would have to purge some of their most fanatical supporters to win those conservative votes.

        That appears to be exactly what they did, as of last week