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SamuelTheThird

(419 posts)
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 02:34 PM Monday

This might seal fascism

You'll get depressed turnout for dems in the midterms.

Then trump and co will just go all out and wreck everything.

Now, the elections were in question anyway, but this makes it all so much easier for them

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Fiendish Thingy

(21,479 posts)
1. What makes you think Dem turnout will be depressed for the midterms?
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 02:38 PM
Monday

Absolutely zero evidence for that prediction.

Plenty of evidence for the opposite, a Blue Tsunami.

But your defeatist Doomerism is noted for the record.

Gore1FL

(22,737 posts)
3. They were given a mandate to fight and they promptly surrendered. It's a decades-long pattern.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 03:29 PM
Monday

I plan to vote next November, but every time this happens, and it happens a lot, I do ask myself why I bother to bother. I hypothesize there are people who ask themselves the same question and choose differently than I.

Fiendish Thingy

(21,479 posts)
5. That is evidence of cowardice by eight (well 9) senators
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 04:38 PM
Monday

But in no way, shape, or form is that evidence that Dem voters will give up and stay home.

The evidence is overwhelming that the opposite will occur next year.

I am sick and tired of demoralizing defeatism - criticize past actions all you want, but predicting doom without reason is not helpful.

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