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I see where your head's at a little, but I will blame him mostly.
As the elected representative, it's his job to represent the voters, population, community, etc. and make decisions the represent those voters or their best interests. If he isn't being reelected, then he has failed to do that satisfactory enough to maintain their confidence.
If he doesn't get the fence/middle/republocrats, then there is something wrong, especially when he's up against a fuck.
Will I blame the voters? Some. The society should only elect people that best represent their values. Americans choices are only these two. If we elect a fuck, either the other choice was terrible, or the people are terrible, or both.
All I'm seeing is you trying real hard to straddle two different ways of treating voters. When moderates elect a garbage candidate in the primaries you're "super irritated". But you have nothing negative to say about moderate voters. No lectures. No wisdom. Nothing.
But when progressives and leftists start talking about the way they'll vote in the general here you are to impart your opinion on all of us.
If you're gonna spend time and energy lecturing progressives and leftists for refusing to vote for Biden in the general then you should be spending twice as much energy lecturing moderates for making a shitty choice in the primaries.
Ha, I think you misunderstood. I'm not lecturing progressives and leftists for refusing to vote for Biden. I don't care. Vote however you need.
I originally said something because the flawed strawman comments were berating disagreement over simplified into unionsupport, and wages.
lol. What a waste of time.
It is if you're only interested in supporting your own narrative.
I'm not here to prove anything to you and I don't really give a shit about your college level understanding of logical fallacies. I'm here for one reason and one reason only: To voice my disapproval with strike blocking, genocide supporting pro-corporate trash Joe Biden. Why? Because when he loses in 2024 people will clutch their chests and be like "Woe is me! How could this happen?? If only there was some way this could have been avoided?"
And that's when I'll gesture back at the thousands of conversations here where people said things like:
And the thousands and thousands of replies just like yours coming up with all sorts of reasons to disagree as if it were up for debate. You know what will be missing? Any moderate going "Yeah you know what, I think Trump is a bigger risk than what would happen if the rail strike had happened." Or "Clearly beating Trump is the priority so Biden should stop supplying arms to Israel."
The fact that this is happening nowhere means moderates would rather lose to fascists than compromise with leftists and progressives. And as the majority voting bloc for Democrats they will have the lions share of the responsibility when Biden loses.
I don't care if you agree with my narrative. All I'm here to do is make sure nobody can claim we didn't put this message on blast. Moderates will have no excuse.