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Everyone Who Was Supposed to Protect You From This Failed Miserably (www.rollingstone.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Powderhorn to c/politics

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[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought you were OP, so add their line about democracy being driven from the bottom up to your post and tell me if you can see the "If you people had just voted for the Democrats harder" in there.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 1 day ago

OP posted:

Donald Trump will now be the president again. A colossal failure by every Republican, Democratic, legal, corporate, and media institution got us here.

Then coffeetest, who I assume you were thinking is OP maybe?, posted:

The establishment has failed us and I think that is why we are were we are now.

Democracy is supposed to be driven from the bottom up, but instead we the people collectively do not pay attention and take responsibility for our our system.

Democrats are absolutely a part of "the establishment," and yes, I would fully agree that they failed us. I would also strongly agree with that second "bottom up" statement. Like I say, anyone who's part of the establishment will always "fail us" unless forced not to, Democrats included, for reasons I already touched on.

It really feels like you're trying to shoehorn a "counterpoint" about the Democrats being bad into a conversation that was already specifically about how they are bad (along with the rest of the establishment, and also along with the low level of citizen involvement) and what to do about it. Why are you singling out the Democrats so hard right now?