Post #4360172

2026-07-26 09:33 UTC

Orban lost because everyone went out and voted for the other party. If you watch interviews of voters, a lot of them said they don’t agree on everything with who they are voting for, but it must be done to progress away from the Orban era. Democracy is a slow process, and sometimes, voting for the lesser of two evils is the only choice you have. It opens the door for better candidates in the next elections to come. Or, you know… you can do an armed revolution. But lately, they don’t bring the change everyone hopes for.

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@immutable@lemmy.zip 2026-07-26 14:57

Trump lost in 2020 because everyone came out and voted against him. And then Biden sat on his hands, let trump rebuild and the Dems lost in 2024. The Republican Party is actively dismantling democracy, but the Democratic Party isn’t defending it. And then voters who expected something would happen, people would be held accountable, things would get better, we wouldn’t have to live through more horrors, get discouraged. And then memes come out and tell those discouraged people, “actually you know what, you’re a dumb baby.” The Democratic Party needs to start delivering things. Actual, tangible things to their voters. Not a CHIPs act, that does some nebulous grab bag of subsidies to Intel, not an ACA that entrenches the power of the insurance companies we all hate. They need to actually make peoples lives better and not have it phase in over 20 years and be easily dismantled by the next Republican congress. We get told again and again, change takes time. But then the republicans take power and change is instantaneous. New tax code written by and for the ultra wealthy, done. Concentration camps and hundreds of billions for ICE to become a gestapo, done. Worldwide tariffs, sure why not! A war in Iran, well if trump feels like it, all it takes is a tweet. No sane person should ever vote for a Republican again, but if the Democratic Party would like to know why people don’t care about voting for them, it’s because they don’t deliver anything worth voting for. A decade after their biggest legislation this century, the Affordable Care Act, the average American is cheering for the assassination of a health insurance CEO because their industry is still so reviled. Which is the best indication that it did not fix the problem.

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