• the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    “I have nothing to lose, no political future to protect, and I will be an absolute nightmare for this administration every single day.”

    Conway seems to be on the right track.

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    Trump is a symptom, not the cause. The underlying cause is a Republican party that abandoned political decency decades ago when they welcomed Dixecrats into their parties in the 1960s as a way of shoehorning unpopular anti-tax and deregulatory politics into a democratic political system that had rejected those things. It was a problem when John McCain was complaining about making MLK day a holiday, it was a problem when George HW ran the Willie Horton ad, it was a problem when Newt Gingrich was saying racist crap about welfare queens, it was a problem when George W Bush blamed 9/11 on Iraq because they were brown, and on and on.

    George Conway was a happy member of that party for most of his life and is only now recognizing the problems with what he built in the most superficial of ways. Ultimately he just represents a previous step on a path that was always inevitably going to end up here. The answer isn’t trying to go back, it’s about getting on a whole new path.

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    Luckily the DNC knows that a shite platform and won’t try to force it on a larger stage.

    Dem voters need to vote for something. Republicans want something to vote against.

    Conway is a Republican, and with that comes with shit empathy and the inability to understand people think differently.

    That’s why even tho he has a D by his name, he’s running this kind of campaign. And if elected he won’t do anything to help his voters, he’ll copy MTG and just want to yell and get headlines.

    Fuck this guy, Dem voters deserve better.

    • DemandtheOxfordComma @sh.itjust.works
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      If you find something wrong with every candidate, you end up voting for no one. And the other party wins. This is the flaw of the two party system.

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        2 days ago

        Buddy…

        What the actual fuck do you think happens if Republicans just run under (both of) the only two parties?

        And why are you acting like the primary is over and we have to accept this bullshit?

        The primary is in June, if we can’t talk about primary candidates before a primary…

        Just…

        Do you know anything about this at all?

        It feels like you have no idea what’s happening here, just kneejerk defending actual Republicans openly attempting to inflitrate the only other option because he said “trump bad” which, fucking newsflash buddy, everyone else running in Dem primaries agree with.

        That’s not the only bar for being a Dem, and the last decade should show you it’s not enough to win a general.

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    I guess he just wants everyone to forget how he didn’t protect his daughter from his shitty wife during COVID and is a Republican

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    The beauty is that the rate at which folks are hopping off the machine is not great enough to create any change. They get to watch in horror as the country crumbles due to their actions. It’s a shame most of them are too stupid to realize it.

    9 in 10 Germans the first 10 years after the war thought Hitler did nothing wrong and would support him again.

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    George Conway is a rare conservative I actually respect. He’s been consistent this whole time.