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In reply to the discussion: Guardian: It's time for Democrats to go low [View all]SpankMe
(3,370 posts)46. All this doesn't mean shit...
...if we can't get some of the 90M+ voters who sat out the 2024 election to fill out a fucking ballot. Does becoming assholes, like Republicans have been since Newt Gingrich, get some of those voters mobilized without driving more devoted Dems away?
Being nice and "going high" hasn't worked. Being dicks and starting a psy-op campaign, like the Republicans have been doing, is a start.
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