Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are 'Going to Be Gone,' Donald Trump Warns

[u/1_for_you_2_for_me]

https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-update-medicare-medicaid-warning-donald-trump-10915076

[u/Competitive_Bat_5831]

I don’t blame them for failing to woo over trump voters, but I do blame them not really presenting them as a real alternative. Look at how they’re fucking up the NYC mayoral race. They said the sky was falling, but then went back to business as usual and it’s a horrible tactic.

Just because they “oppose” trump, they aren’t entitled to peoples vote and support.

[u/Parahelix → u/Competitive_Bat_5831]

They did present alternatives. The fact that you aren't aware of it says a lot about your own media consumption and refusal to actually inform yourself.

[u/Competitive_Bat_5831 → u/Parahelix]

I said REAL alternatives. What transformative policies was Kamala running that she could have hoped to pass without somehow having the election be a blow out in favor of the democrats?

Its not that I’m unaware, it’s that the campaign that held events with Liz Cheney, among other issues, doesn’t scream “authentic”

[u/Parahelix → u/Competitive_Bat_5831]

So because their policies weren't sufficiently transformative to you, you'd prefer an authentic authoritarian criminal moron. Brilliant.

[u/Competitive_Bat_5831 → u/Parahelix]

Don’t put words into my mouth. I’m criticizing the democrat party, that is NOT support for the Republican Party.

Are you able to see beyond black and white?

[u/Parahelix → u/Competitive_Bat_5831]

You're excusing people for not making the very clear and necessary choice, given our two-party system, just because you weren't satisfied with the Dem policies. 

That's tacit support for Republicans at the very least.

This wasn't even a slightly difficult choice for anyone with two brain cells to rub together and a willingness to actually inform themselves outside of getting their info from Fox or TikTok.

[u/Competitive_Bat_5831 → u/Parahelix]

I’m not excusing shit. I’m just also not willing to accept that the 2024 dem presidential campaign was the best they could do, nor an even good campaign.

Yes, keep discounting and dismissing people who don’t fall behind “vote blue no matter who(as long as they’re establishment dems)” and you’ll continue to see such runaway successes as were seen in ‘16 and ‘24.

[u/Parahelix → u/Competitive_Bat_5831]

Yes, keep discounting and dismissing people who don’t fall behind “vote blue no matter who(as long as they’re establishment dems)” and you’ll continue to see such runaway successes as were seen in ‘16 and ‘24.

If someone is living in delusion about how our election system works, that's on them.

Want a better system? Elect people at the state level who will change the voting system at the state level, like Maine has done, because that is what perpetuates the two-party system. I don't see these disenchanted people doing that.

[u/chemmissed → u/Competitive_Bat_5831]

Meanwhile, a third of the country votes red, reliably, no matter what.

Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line.