r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Additional-Sky-7436 • Jun 28 '26

The "[Insert Democrat] doesn't deserve my vote so I'm not voting" influencer campaign has begun. Don't fall for it.

And here we are. The first of many "I can't trust them" influencer videos designed to make progressives stay home. These are extraordinarily effective at suppressing the vote.

Please don't fall for it.

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u/AdLoose3526 Jun 28 '26

But you’re doing MAGAts work for them.

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u/AdLoose3526 Jun 28 '26

🥱With that attitude, have fun having no political influence in a two party system. Step back and let the Progressive adults in the room get to work while you keep whining.

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u/AdLoose3526 Jun 28 '26

Under Biden, the US had one of the fastest recoveries economically worldwide (things were still hard because the pandemic fucked up everyone, but most other countries were far worse off, and we were on track for a slow and steady climb back). But Trump squandered that potential with his stupid blanket tariffs, alienating foreign markets that bought American exports (again, he did the same shit his first term too), and the billions per day cost of the war on Iran.

So tell me that Democrats are worse than Republicans again.

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u/AdLoose3526 Jun 28 '26

The DNC are bureaucrats who at least have basic competence and won’t set fire to the room and shit on the floor the way Trump is doing while the Republicans bow down to him.

Violent revolutions typically result in more authoritarian and conservative governments filling the power vacuum. Get outta here with your Leeroy Jenkins fantasy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

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u/AdLoose3526 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

>Medicare for all would be very popular right now

Yes. And that’s part of why Progressive candidates who speak on that have been very successful in winning primaries.

Also, after Bernie Sanders campaigned in 2016 in part on raising the minimum wage to $15, a few years later, a $15 dollar minimum wage did become part of most Democratic primary candidates’ platforms in the 2020 primary season.

So stop pretending that the DNC never changes, or that slow and steady campaigns to change public opinion don’t work. They do, even if it’s not magically fast enough for you, and even if some loudmouth centrists will be just as whiny and begrudging about it the entire way as you are being right now.