“Most every campaign cycle, it seems, presidential candidates and political pundits claim this election is the most important one ever. It’s become something of a cliché in American politics. This time, however, they just might be correct.” - from 2012

  • anticolonialist@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I’ve been able to vote since Reagan, every election since has always been the most important election of our lifetime and it’s always been from the direct result of the people claiming its the important election of our lifetime. Democrats will always have a boogeyman to point fingers at that they’re coming to take away your rights. And Republicans will always have a boogeyman to point fingers at that they’re coming to take their rights. They collectively are coming to take away our rights and they have us fighting their battles to keep them in power so they can continue taking away our rights.

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      10 days ago

      Sure but I don’t think we’ve ever had a candidate with so many former hand picked aids warn us about the end of democracy if he’s reelected.

      • anticolonialist@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        Midterms are going to be the most important election of our lifetime, 2028 is going to be the most important election of our lifetime. Democrats will forever offer a boogeyman to scare you into keeping them in power.

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          I don’t know if we should be assuming those elections will even happen. If Trump wins, then I guess we won’t need to worry about “important elections” ever again. Or any elections for that matter.

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      10 days ago

      Have Dems taken your rights to anything away? They’ve expanded rights for same sex couples and healthcare. Under Republicans my rights constantly get reduced. Abortion is the most recent example.

      Also, every election is important because the shitty people who want to screw everyone over never take an election cycle off. Sorry if showing up once every two years is too much to ask.

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        Once SCOTUS overturns Obergefell our marriages will become the purview of the states again. Interracial marriages will become purview of the states. If a single court clerk does not want to issue a same sex or interracial marriage because it goes against their beliefs, the Respect for Marriage Act allows them to do so. Your loss of women’s reproductive rights was made possible by Democrats promising for 50 years to do something about it and then doing nothing about it. Three of those conservatives SCOTUS justices that removed those rights were put in place by Democrats. Democrats have done nothing but betray the working class for decades.

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          And it’s always “but but the supreme court!” every 4 years. Like we need uphold this far-right de-facto legislative branch of government, and not threaten to kill it like FDR.

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            The only people that give the Supreme Court any power are those that say it has power. The Supreme Court are not enforcers.

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      Are you fucking dense? Are you willfully digging your head in your ass? Where the fuck have you been these last couple years? None of this shit is normal, and you smugly claim it’s not important. I guess project 2025 is nothing either, right?

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      10 days ago

      They’re downvoting because this time it’s the MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION EVER IN HISTORY, and it will remain so until 2028.