.@Jimmy_Dore & @StevenOh talk about @BarackObama and the truth about his legacy. https://t.co/3GOwFLLknq pic.twitter.com/aeZhn4MbMr
— The Young Turks (@TheYoungTurks) November 26, 2016
Try starting somewhere that matters.
They DAMAGED the progressive movement by making it look like what the right and HRC/DNC has always said it was. Whiny spoiled pampered little millennial closet autocrat socialists that can’t do anything but cry till they get their way and only respect democracy when it’s rubber stamping their will.
The entire trump protester movement disagreed strongly with the following statement:
“I’d rather legitimately elect someone I dislike than illegitimately elect someone I do, because I respect democracy.”
Where were all those fuckers when the dem primary got stolen and where are they on the mindnumbingly countless other issues happening then and now that BADLY fucking need mass protest, like the fact that we’re the proud owners of the largest prison population ON EARTH!
What the ACTUAL fuck.
The Trump protesters might as well have been paid for by the Koch brothers. They couldn’t possibly have been more helpful to the 1%.
It was pathetic and stupid and quite literally fascist.
Also people whining about the popular vote need to read a fucking civics book. The reason we have the college is to keep a handful of gentrified cities/states from ruling the rest of the country from on high gilded-age style.
The point of democracy is to distribute power, not just across people but geographically as well.
Our elections aren’t anything like democratic because every single election has been minority rule. The majority ALWAYS either doesn’t vote or voted for someone who lost.
The “popular” vote has NEVER won an American election. From the very beginning it’s been this way. Remember, originally it was just white male land owners. The country and this voting system has NEVER enfranchised the majority. EVER.
But funny how everyone’s quiet about it when THEIR side “wins.”
“Hypocrisy” just doesn’t even say it.
The solution is single transferable vote. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI) That won’t ever happen because progressives have ADHD and no sense of focus.
The right continues to stomp us because while we fight over different futures, they are fighting for the one shared past.
underlore.com/liberal-hate/
Related
Author: Innomen
Writer. Philosopher. Nerd. If you want to know more, contact me. I don't know where it's getting that photo. View all posts by Innomen
It’s obviously the direct result of a “participation trophy” generation finding out for the very first time that life isn’t fair and you don’t win just because you really really want to. Somehow the “Greatest Generation” raised the generation that raised the weakest generation.
Hmmm. I don’t think it’s that, I think it’s partly that identity politics breeds a cultish mentality. A very us vs them at any cost way of parsing the world. To them it’s about people, not policy.
Plenty of older people online screaming the same screams. It’s a huge mess.
You say it man.
There is a big mental and political gap right now, and these imprudent tantrums will go a long way over the next four years.
I see the same phenomen here, in france and the netherlands. It´s important to do something, but equally important to do it deliberately