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Something that I realized about the fediverse is that you seem to be able to criticize the USA as a whole, but if you criticize the Democrats you get downvoted. Democrats suck they are not sacred cows (lemmy.ml)
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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

As in criticizing Democrats on their merits or criticizing Democrats as equally bad as Republicans? Big difference between the two.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 years ago

Let me try! Democrats who don't support ranked choice voting are selling us out.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

For real. Democrats criticizing their own politicians is as old as the modern Democrats. That's part of the problem, everyone marches in lock step on the right and the left argues about every action their politicians take.

[–] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

Have you never heard of "RINOS"? Republicans attack Republicans they don't agree with just as hard if not harder.

The problem is, the Republican party actually rallies around what their constituents support because they know they need their base, while Democratic party expect their constituents to rally around what their leadership supports because they take their base for granted.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Democrats are not "our politicians"

[–] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I've never seen anyone actually say democrats are equally as bad as republicans. Ive seen a lot of legitimate criticism of democrats be framed that way.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 1 points 2 years ago

I some regards, they are. Like they are both equally bad for backing genocides.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago

New to the internet?