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This is a great comment and I agree with everything you said. At the risk of sounding contradictory, let me state that I'm not arguing against voting for democrats. Sure, my hopes for the democratic party continues to dwindle as I get older, but the cost of an afternoon to cast a ballot isn't much to ask for. And (I feel like I have to say this on Lemmy) the Republican party is a non-starter. So we both agree on those points.
My issue is with the obvious bias in political posts or political memes (see: literally all of [email protected]). Lemmy has decided on a simple formula: pro-democrat post=upvote, anti-republican post=upvote, everything else=downvote. Doesn't matter if the article linked is any good or if the meme is funny. This community is completely unable to acknowledge the flaws of the democratic party because that hurts "our team" and somehow makes you a republican.