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Leopards Ate My Face

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In my country, it's called "voting for the fox because the rooster is crowing out of tune".

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[–] Velypso@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 days ago (13 children)

Real question, i can't seem to figure out.

How did the left abandon these people?

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

America doesn't have a mainstream left party.

It has a status quo party (Democrats) and a fascist party (Republicans).

Clearly the status quo sucks for most Americans, so they're more tempted by fascist alternatives.

[–] Zess@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Things are kinda bad, maybe they'll get better if they get worse."

[–] Fusselwurm@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

that's the gist of it.

"Things are not working well, for years I've been voting for the guys who claimed they wanted to repair it. Now I'm voting for the people who want to smash everything..."

"... because I'm too dumb to realize that re-creating from scratch is far more difficult and even less likely to succeed"

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