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Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by sg47 on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:17PM (#24148218)
The Republican party wants to be a dictatorship. They are putting party over country. They don't want to lose and win at all costs. I wish Obama had done something like this to make sure Trump didn't get elected (this statement is intended to trigger Republicans and force them to defend Trump's actions)
Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by Tostino on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:25PM (#24148387)
There were so many things which aren't horrible for our democracy which could have been done to change how 2016 turned out. Not taking a shit on the progressive wing of the party at every step may have helped some, actually campaigning in some of the states she assumed to have in the bag and then lost may have helped too.

Obama doing something anti-democratic, illegal, etc to ensure Trump wasn't elected is not a step I would ever support.

Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by pstuart on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:22PM (#24148340)
Indeed. We have fallen to a fascist coup. The question is whether or not they can hold on to it.
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Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by sg47 on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:14PM (#24149308)
No, Republicans are and have always been the corrupt ones. If at all anything, Democrats are too fair because you know they tend to be decent human beings. Republicans are too power hungry and want to win at all costs.
Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by JadeNB on Thursday August 13, 2020 @06:44PM (#24150543)
> No, Republicans are and have always been the corrupt ones. If at all anything, Democrats are too fair because you know they tend to be decent human beings. Republicans are too power hungry and want to win at all costs.

I'm a Democrat, and reasonably proud to be so—more proud than I would be to be a Republican, at any rate—but looking back through American history should make you very hesitant to claim anything about what Republicans and Democrats always have been. Democrats have often been the "big party" tent, and that's good; but it means, for example, that we embraced and welcome secessionists for a long time. That's a legacy we largely left behind with LBJ, and I'm glad we did, but it would be disingenuous to disown it.

It used to be meaningful to talk about liberal versus conservative Democrats, and liberal versus conservative Republicans; don't assume that how things are now is how they've always been, or even how they've been for more than a few decades.

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Re:Trump blocks postal funds to prevent expanded mail-in voting by sg47 on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:35PM (#24149651)
Majority of Republicans are racist given the fact they voted for Trump. I'm not sure how you claim them to be good people.