So I guess the Dems can try again in 2032

But then you get libs yelling at you cause they think criticizing Dems = supporting fascists. You are only allowed to do so in that 1 year gap between the election ending and the start of the next primaries (whether it be midterms or presidential). Any other time and you’re called a Russian bot or psy-op agent.

I also live in a red state (I guess it used to be purple, but last time it was blue was before I was even born both at the presidential and Congress level). Voting for Dems on any level outside of the couple city districts basically does nothing. It’s why I find my vote better spent on third parties at every level. I’d rather be happy my vote went to someone I liked than wasted on someone I don’t.

Missouri

If you’re wanting proper leftists in government, ONLY praising ones you like isn’t enough. You also have to destroy the ones in politics that are working against the cause. Get them the fuck out and make their mere existence toxic, which includes promoting other parties running against them even if you don’t personally believe they will win. Anyone working against leftist ideas, like the couple Dems OP talks about that are against trans rights, can’t be allowed to have any representation. Being against human rights needs to be treated the same across the board, not rewarded cause they said nice things about other topics.

I’m going to talk from personal experience cause that’s how humans work. People can take what they want from that, but I seem to only see ya’ll have a problem with that when it’s negative about Dems. When someone from NYC comes on here and talks about how much they love Mamdani, you don’t tell them to keep it to their community and leave it off the Fediverse cause it supports what you want. Unlike you guys, I don’t tell people to sit down and shut up when they say something against what I want to see happen accusing everyone of psy ops and being Russian trolls.

Damn this comment remained up, but when I said basically the same thing on a different post in this community it got deleted within 30 minutes. Maybe the mods are lightening up on what’s needed.

Be honest, you and I both know that 99% of people only vote and do nothing else if they even do that. Maybe they’ll attend a protest if one is happening nearby (which must always remain peaceful because we can’t use all the tools on the table like political violence), but in my area people despise protests and have threatened violence against even teens doing one. Trying to get people to do literally anything, even something as simple as some community volunteer work, is like pulling teeth. Politics is something they get bombarded with every 2 years then forget about. If Dems will never hold power in my area anyway and nobody wants to organize, then I might as well vote for who I actually want running things while spending the rest of my time at the range.

Again, Dems and any other party besides Conservatives hold 0 power here and pretty much never have in the 30+ years I’ve lived here. It’s why whenever someone runs on any party besides Republican here, they emphasize they were lifelong Republicans that don’t agree with where the party is going so they left it. Never works cause Conservatives want full Conservative, not Conservative-lite.

I live in Missouri (the St. Charles area) and I don’t support either of these bastards. Missouri is filled with morons though so we’re better off getting air striked than ever seeing any positive change. Put an actual socialist in charge of this state instead of Dems that literally put in their campaign ads that they’re conservatives who think the party went too far so they’re running as Democrats.

I don’t want either of these jackasses to win cause both will send us towards destruction. Some are fine with being sent there at a slower rate, but honestly I could just as easily call the “lesser evil” stuff a “psy op”. Shit I’m starting to see some try to rephrase it to “greater good” cause they’re realizing still using the word “evil” isn’t winning anyone over.

You fucktards call everything that goes against libs a “psy op”. I just saw you calling horseshoe theory a psy op. You just want the slightly right wing jackasses to win so you can go back to ignoring politics for 4 years and telling the rest of us who spent 2021-2024 yelling at Biden for not being left and spent the lead up to the 2024 election yelling at Kamala to stop being a piece of shit to sit down and accept the bowl of vomit we’re being served.

No it comes from the toxic positivity of libs telling everyone to support their destructive party over the other destructive party using the same talking points as MAGA, just with a couple words changed.

Fuck no. Both parties can eat a dick since neither actually give a shit about anything going on here. Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush, all can die tomorrow and I’d be elated.

In my state Conservatives are trying to overthrow our choice to keep abortion rights that we voted for in 2024 by telling us keeping them will also be allowing for kids to transition surgically (I wish I was making it up, but there’s at least ads trying to tell people to not fall for it and that the amendment is just about abortion rights).

The same ones Dems hold considering is one of the deepest red states in the Midwest.

Ok, but think of all the conservatives we could win over by screwing over minority groups! The Baileys need to be represented!!

And BlueMAGA wonders why I have only ever voted third party at every single level.

It comes from every time a trans person says they will never support a Democrat that stands against them, BlueMAGA comes out yelling at them saying they’re the reason Harris lost and will be blamed when any other Dem loses.

“But…but my reach across the aisle and appeal to centrists/conservatives always works!!! What else am I supposed to do? Look at why people voted for further left third party options to try and win their votes since those people are willing to go out and vote? Are you stupid??? Why would I ever do that???”