• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    18 hours ago

    Thanks for the compliment, but respectfully, YOU are the problem. They are politicians and are inherently lazy and greedy. If you give them permission to do nothing, that is exactly what they’ll do, and they’ll go back to their insider trading and grifting.

    We are in unprecedented times, and require unprecedented solutions. We absolutely cannot accept the same strategy of “We’ve tried nothing, and we’re all out of ideas.”

    There is no reason we have to keep doing the same failed strategies of the past. Instead of telling them that we’ll accept nothing, send the message that if we take the country back from MAGA with our votes AGAIN, they better not squander it a second time, or they will suffer the same punishments as MAGA, which will be a LOT worse if we have to go through it a third round.

    This is their last shot, and they better do what they are elected to do, or else.

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      16 hours ago

      I know it’s more the general “you”, but still damn. I’m doing the best I can from a deep red state and area (Missouri district 2). I do tons of various volunteer work alongside working with a local socialist group assisting in education and organizing protests. Dems are trying to get something here, but they have an incredibly hard battle if they want to beat Ann Wagner, let alone the duo of Josh “Jogs” Hawley and Eric Schmitt. Last time we had a Dem representing us was for 2 years back in the early 90s and the current one has held her job for 13 years.

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        16 hours ago

        Yeah, I mean YOU to mean all the people who hear what we need to do, and just immediately surrender with a resigned sigh that it will never happen. And it won’t, unless we MAKE it happen.

        I get your situation, I live in Central Florida, the last Democratic stronghold in the state, which is under direct attack by MAGAs. Over the next few years, they are planning to build an entirely NEW city from scratch, between Orlando and the East Coast, that will be as large as Orlando, which will greatly reduce the Democratic

        How do you start a conservative city from scratch? You allow the Mormon Church to buy thousand of acres of land, including protected conservation land, and then let them build a city dedicated to their church, so they can have a West Coast capital, and an East Coast Capital.

        Central Florida is about to be invaded by some of the most gullible religious weirdos on the planet.

        It’s surprising how many states are actually fairly evenly split, but the Right has convinced people that their vote is powerless, so they don’t bother. If all those Democrats came out to vote, a few Red states would have some surprise flips. This would be a great election to do that, since the MAGAs are so depressed, many will be voting Dem, and many won’t vote at all. The Dems could really crush them, and I’d love to see the MAGAs cry when they get bloodbathed even worse than they expected…