• Palacegalleryratio [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Trump has passed one of the least popular bills of all time, his ICE actions are wildly unpopular, his tariffs are pushing up the cost of living and the refusal and backtracking on the Epstein thing is upsetting a lot of people…. It would take true Machiavellian genius from the dems to still be less popular than him, and yet the Dems are delivering. Mother Nature would need millenniums to evolve a more perfectly adapted ‘Controlled Opposition’ party.

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    Democrats and UK Labour are dying out simultaneously and it’s entirely self-made. This is not a coincidence, historical movements are happening as a result of western conditions.

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        rlly funny that people on both sides of the Atlantic thought getting 33% against the most unpopular government of all time qualified them to go give advice in a race where the opposition was actually semi-popular

        i mean realistically they were just off on a holiday to the States getting to LARP as the West Wingers they desperately wish they were, but still

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    Notice the huge dip in the 2000s, when Democrats sat back and did fucking nothing during the W administration.

    Their popularity jumped when it appeared that they were going to do something about the great financial crisis, then fucking nosedived again when everyone saw they were going to just paper over everything

    Democrats truly are controlled opposition, and only exist to sabotage any real left energy in this country

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    Voters: The majority of us disapprove of both parties. Can you allow different options?
    the-democrat the-republican : Pffft, not on your life. Now pick one of us because the other one will end democracy as you know it.

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      Really funny to see the absolute nosedive liberal favorability took during his term

      Almost like he was just that fucking terrible

      And then Kamala and their complete lack of opposition to Trump pushed it even further

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    guys remember when the demographic change in america was gonna make it so that democrats would win every election? lmao