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Right now I can see two futures.
One where the 2026 election gives the Dems control of both Houses.
The other where the 2026 elections are cancelled for national security reasons.
Or the Republicans push through "election security" laws that gerrymander the whole country to the point that Democrats can never gain a majority in either house ever again.
This is 100% how every single dictatorship in existence today works. Almost all countries in the world hold elections. But some are more democratic than others. Every single tyrant in power today has been or claim to have been democratically elected.
"Authoritarians get voted in. They never get voted out."
There is absolutely a third future where the Democrats refuse to change their platform and fuck this up again. Don’t be naive.
The Dems have flubbed it many times.
The people who are sitting around doing nothing haven't won anything yet.
Name me one time that the Left letting the Right win has helped anything.
But yes, keep telling people not not voting D will help. [/s]
Never said this.
I'm hoping for the first. But I fear it will take many blatantly awful things happening to counter all the indifference, ignorance, and complacency around us.
Because the hate is insurmountable otherwise.
I admire your optimism, but what do you think will turn people away from Trump in 2026 that didn't turn them away this year? It's not like we haven't already seen a Trump presidency.
Trump got the same number of votes this year he got in 2016.
Dopes who thought Harris wasn't worth voting for is what screwed us.