• gravitas_deficiency
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    6 months ago

    That backstab is why I now vote against her in her Senate primaries. It’s deeply frustrating, because until that point, I really did think she was one of the best possibilities for being a sane and effective presidential candidate.

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      6 months ago

      I would still vote for her, given her voting record and policy proposals she supports/ed, but I will say the $40 I donated to her campaign are the only political donations I’ve ever regretted making.

      I could not have a beer with her, either I’d be thinking about bringing it up the entire time. Actually, I would have a beer with her just to ask her what the hell happened? How does she feel about her legacy? What did it feel like to be the OG Fetterman?

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        6 months ago

        Honestly at this point I would suck it up and vote for her too u_u

        The Democrat party ironically won’t have any reason to actually compete UNTIL the GOP dies completely because they would be forced to confront their internal progressive vs chud factions, which would split into their own two new political parties.

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          6 months ago

          In the general? Absolutely. But that’s a low bar.

          If she was the most compelling primary candidate? Also, likely. Also, still a low bar.

          But as an expression of my deep and fundamental dissatisfaction with how she kow-towed to the DNC leadership, I don’t plan on supporting her tenure in the senate.

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      6 months ago

      Who are you voting for, then? It seems that she is running unopposed in the primary and she is such a sure winner for the general election that other parties are probably not going to run serious candidates but settle for someone just campaigning for the attention.

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        6 months ago

        Iirc I left it blank in the most recent primary where she was on the ballot. Still voted for her in the general because the other candidate was Republican.

        To be clear, I fucking detest the two-party system that forces me to employ such voting calculus.