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Democrats worry their most loyal voters won’t turn out for Biden in 2024
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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I don't cross picket lines, why would I vote for a union buster? Balk all you want but that's my hard line. Already listed out the local reps I can't vote for because of the same reason. Y'all can bend your beliefs however you want to justify feedin into the same old cycle but I told them this was my hard line and they crossed it. Fuck them.
If Trump is elected do you think that his administration would be more friendly to unions than the Biden administration?
If you're mad about Biden forcibly ending the rail strike (which was honestly infuriating) you should know that his administration continued to work with the labor union afterward to negotiate a deal while also avoiding a disastrous economic shutdown that would have resulted from the strike. Could Biden have done more to get a deal without forcing an end to the strike? Maybe. Should he have let the economy collapse in order to support labor rights? Maybe, but I understand why he didn't.
Biden was basically my last choice of the field of democrats running in 2020 but I don't know what anyone else would have done to achieve better results.
I don't disagree with most of what you said but there's a real basic thing with the rail strike he could've done.
If the government has the power to force a deal, he could've just given the workers the week off they asked for, forcing the companies to acquiesce instead of the people.
Honestly given the way elections work I'm the us this is a pretty shit line of reasoning
Trump is a union buster and more
Cool, im not voting for Trump. Whatever happend to be the change you want to see in the world? If more people voted for their best interest candidate, not just whoever has the better chance at winning, maybe our democracy would work.
That's how we end up with round 2 of Trump, in this case. Either way, until we do away with FPTP voting, you're essentially throwing your vote away.
wrong. a party only needs to achieve 5% popular vote to get federal funding next election cycle. everyone should vote for who they actually want.
Demonstratebly false considering enough votes for a third party gets them on the debate stage which gets them more voters and lets the rest of America know that actually have a choice.
Considering the fact that the US did start out with lots of candidates in each presidential election, and then naturally became a two party system from there, it doesn’t seem like “knowing they have a choice” is the problem. Rather, it is the FPTP system itself (which models and studies show trends towards a two-party system and stabilizes there)
this is ahistorical nonsense.
I've heard that one before, but if more people voted for their best interest instead of being feared and shamed into voting for a compromise then that wouldn't be true. Be the change you wanna see my friend, if you can't do it no one will.
You're welcome to stand by your ideals, but FPTP will always boil down to a two-party system. If voting for a third party makes you feel better, go for it, but that's all that it will accomplish.
Not voting democrat is a direct vote for fascism. Just because it's not ideal and not fair doesn't make it any less true.