• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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          3 days ago

          Did you not? Was that effective at accomplishing your policy goals? Did the party realize the error of their ways and shift radically left? Oh, they’re already floating running Harris again? Huh.

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              Voting works for what it’s designed to do: select the most popular candidate among voters. If you didn’t vote, or voted for an unpopular candidate, that’s not the fault of the election. What it doesn’t work for is unfocused feedback against a party. When Hilary lost, we got Biden. When Biden was rebuffed, we got Harris.

              Hitting a bolt with a wench instead of using it as intended is not proof that wrenches don’t work. You’re just using it wrong.

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                  I came very close. Another couple percent of the voters and it would have worked, it was a very achievable goal.

                  How many percent short were you?

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                    The vote totals were closer to my goals than yours, in my state. How much do you have to fuck around with the math to make Illinois not only go red, but be the tipping point state? That’s a completely unrealistic fantasy, and most Americans are in similar boats.