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In reply to the discussion: And Another Thing !!! - The Next Time I Hear That We Are Not To Criticize Or Work Against Democrats. [View all]MisterP
(23,730 posts)it amuses me to no end when the Loyalists start pissing themselves at the idea of anyone even thinking there are Dems they can't vote for--not because they're being gallingly hypocritical and fanatically stupid, but because they have no idea of what it indicates
they really seem to think we'd have 80% turnouts if us party activists would just swallow our disgust and start up the van; 60-70% nonvoting isn't a sign of the two parties leaving the voters behind by offering few people to actually vote FOR, it must be some almighty and insiduous abstentionist campaign flowing from Rove and Kucinich's secret racist left-right-syncretist bunker
somehow they think that longtime activists declaring they won't vote for X or Y is what somehow causes all the other voters to lose heart--rather than a sign that voters seeing their livelihoods drained from them have just stopped caring about the latest admittedly empty promise, and the displeasure has spread to the political junkies
the problem isn't that they think like born flunkies, it's that they think everyone else does, too
plus they think that voting for a Dem who'll pass X, Y, and Z will prevent the GOP from passing X, Y, and Z and that XYZ is so bad we have to prevent any Pub from getting in and passing XYZ that we have to vote for a Dem even if they'll pass XYZ