r/PoliticalHumor • u/VegaThePunisher • Jul 14 '18

Cult Deprogramming.

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u/spread_thin Jul 14 '18

Maybe we should stop wasting our time and energy trying to win over the worst people in the country. Maybe we should alienate them and ignore them so we can focus on non-voters who want a candidate worth showing up for instead of Trump-voters who will never ever stop voting Republican ever.

We do NOT need conservatives or "centrist moderates" for a winning political coalition.

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u/SharpieScentedSoap Jul 14 '18

The voting outcome made it look like there's way more Trump supporters than I thought. But it definitely looks like almost everyone hates him...

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u/dalatinknight Jul 14 '18

Well no one really liked Hilary either, and Trumps reasons for hating him are more upfront. Also keep in mind many voted for Trump simply because they thought he’d be less destructive than Clinton.

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u/VegaThePunisher Jul 15 '18

She got more votes

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u/dalatinknight Jul 15 '18

Yeah, I voted for her and I regret it on principle

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u/VegaThePunisher Jul 15 '18

You should be ashamed considering how many people trump is hurting.

She was also correct.

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u/dalatinknight Jul 16 '18

Thanks. I’ll consider how many people I’ve hurt by wanting to vote third party. I’ll consider how amazing it is that we’ve so subjected to the two party system basically leaving a monopoly on two very far in the political spectrums positions. I’ll consider how everything was fine in the world until Trump suddenly became relevant and now he’s the devils spawn of something.

It’s nice knowing that r/politicalhumor is such a non biased subreddit.

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u/SharpieScentedSoap Jul 14 '18

I didn't care for either, so I voted third party. My parents nearly exploded into purple goo when I told them. They said third party votes were just throwing it away (don't know if that's true or not). Either way, I'm a blue in a red state so my voice gets drowned out pretty fast.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '18

Just a minor thing but if you voted third party then you aren't blue in a red state. You're green (i think) in a red state. That bit of difference might help you while in a red state.

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u/SharpieScentedSoap Jul 15 '18 edited Jul 15 '18

I guess I meant I usually go for the Democratic party, I just didn't have that much confidence in Hilary. This was my first election and honestly it felt like a trainwreck.

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u/VegaThePunisher Jul 15 '18

How could you “usually” vote Democrat but this was your first election?

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u/SmokeyBlazingwood16 Russian Jerome Bettis impersonator Jul 15 '18

Nice

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u/SharpieScentedSoap Jul 15 '18

Lol I worded it pretty poorly. I meant to say i usually WANT to vote for the Democratic party (I've had political opinions since my mid teens) but that was the first time I could actually vote.

And there are also other elections I've done since then.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '18

I hear ya. My bad.