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    Die Demokraten führen einen Wahlkampf, als ob die Wahlen 2026 fair verlaufen würden. Das ist ein Fehler


    Die Demokraten führen einen Wahlkampf, als ob die Wahlen 2026 fair verlaufen würden. Das ist ein Fehler

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/23/midterm-elections-project-2025

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    1. reddittorbrigade on

      Trump and Elon did cheat last election. Kamala got zero vote in Rockland County NY.

      They will do it again, especially now that Trump has control of our country.

    2. wogfood on

      They appear to be hopeless and leaderless. Never learning. Never taking shit seriously. E.g. now the Dems have decided extend the funding for ICE with taxpayer schekels.

    3. city_dwellerZ on

      2026 will not be a normal election. The gerrymandering of districts that kicked off at Trump’s request shows that he will stop at nothing to prevent a favorable outcome for himself. There are many more levers that he is going to pull.

      He doesn’t want to be investigated, doesn’t want oversight and oh, doesn’t want the Epstein Files to continue to be released. So if the Democrats don’t think he won’t put his thumbs on the scales, then they’re fighting with one arm tied behind their back.

    4. CriticalBath2367 on

      He just tried and failed to start ww3 with America’s former allies. Take a hint from Europe – stand up and take this perverted cabal down, before some external entity does, with all the fireworks & carnage that will ensue.

    5. Bakedads on

      The entire democratic party is a mistake at this point. One giant fucking mistake. 

    7. RebelliousInNature on

      You’re not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy. It’s not strongly worded letter time. It’s pitchfork and tiki torch time.

    9. DT-Sodium on

      Thankfully Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to prevent authentic Republican votes and make cheating as obvious as it can be when time comes.

    11. Abrigado_Rosso on

      Democrats are campaigning as if there will be a 2026 election at all. **That’s** a mistake to even assume.

    12. Kannibelanimal1966 on

      How can you fix something if you don’t even acknowledge that there was a problem

    14. Separate-Park8184 on

      Lol. Democrats still just riding this out like there are actual laws and standard procedure to follow. Sigh.

    15. Sub-Mongoloid on

      Democrats are shackled to the status quo, they refuse to adapt or right the system in their favor because it would betray their sense of normalcy. Their donor class has largely shifted over to the fascist right and Dems are the last ones to realise it.

    16. pillbox_purgatory on

      One day most people will realize that the general Democratic Party are just composed of controlled opposition politicians meant to continue our country’s downward spiral into an oligarchy

    18. WastelandOutlaw007 on

      Interesting to see the effort to disenfranchise dem voters is already in full swing

      Articles like a this are a clear example of anti dem propaganda

    19. AWCuiper on

      So the latest date that the American second civil war will break out is nov/dec 2026.

    21. dartanum on

      Democracy is wonderful, and the will of the people matter. Democracy was the only way we were able to get the tyrants of the past 4 years out of power. Both Republicans and Democrats should make sure that elections are always free and fair so that the will of the people can be heard and established.

    23. llamapositif on

      My poor American friends, your system has been corrupted for decades by money, so stop arguing.

      Your rich corporations have made it so all of this hope of there being a party of „change“ or a party devoted to „justice“ or „following the constitution“ is nothing but theater.

      You are asking for can’t be. You are asking those who built theater set facades to come make you real and solid buildings.

      They don’t know how.

    24. helmutye on

      It’s not a „mistake“. The Dem leadership has the same donors as Trump — for example, Jeff Bezos personally intervened to block the Washington Post nomination of Harris and donated to Trump’s inauguration and sat in the front row…and so did all the other tech oligarchs. Silicon Valley is a major donor to Dem leadership, and they switched to backing Trump and fascism this time around.

      So all the Dems are doing is what he Dems have always done: serve their donors. It just so happens that their donors now support fascism, so serving them means facilitating fascism.

      And *opposing* fascism would require the Dems to do what they’ve never done before: break with their donors. So nobody should be expecting it. The Dems didn’t break with their donors to break up the banks following 2008. They didn’t break with their donors to support Medicare for All even though everyone wants it and there was a global plague that gave them the perfect opportunity. So why would people expect that they will break with their donors to oppose fascism?

      The Dems and Republicans don’t do the same things, but the things they do are each in service of the same goal: win the game for their donors aka Team Fascism. So just like a running back does different things than a defensive lineman but both try to win the game for their team, so too do Dems and Republicans do different things to ultimately make the same donors happy.

      And for the Dems at this time, that means collecting and then neutralizing opposition to Trump. Dems want everyone who is pissed off about what Trump is doing to channel that into the Democrat party, and then make sure nothing happens as a result. They don’t want people directly opposing ICE agents in the streets — they want people to donate to the party, call their reps, and patiently wait for an election that may never happen in the hopes that the people they elect will vote to change something…even though we just saw Dem leadership ensure ICE funding by allowing enough Dems to vote for it to ensure it passes (the fact that the leadership is less mad at the 7 Dems who „broke with leadership“ than they are with Mamdani or Sanders or anyone who actually tries to make good on Dem rhetoric gives the game away).

      The Dems aren’t making „mistakes“ — people are just reluctant to be admit what they’re actually doing: supporting fascism by alternate means in order to make their fascism loving donors happy.

    25. MiddleAgedSponger on

      When were they ever fair? Billionaires have bought both parties, Trump may be the biggest danger to democracy at the moment, but the real problem is the extreme wealth inequality that allows billionaires to buy elections with pocket change.

    26. Leon_Howser on

      I have a question just because you disagree with someone’s thoughts or knowledge why do people downvote?

      Are they against democracy or have such a fragile understanding of the topic and they lash out or are they just trolls sent for disruption?

    27. TreeLooksFamiliar22 on

      The pieces says WE MUST FIGHT and is long on fear-mongering, and short on the HOW the fight must happen.

      This seems like a case of people staring at Project 2025 too long and becoming mesmerized by it.

      As for candidates, campaigning with the expectation that we can still do voting right (it is run by the states not the Feds) is exactly what they should be doing.

    30. McG0788 on

      Dems need to think of the various worst case scenarios and all the grey area angles that trump and the GOP could try and prepare for a fight against those. Not just lawsuits but actually being prepared to organize mass protests and removing trump from the white house by force if needed.

      The GOP is all in on fascism and one party rule. The Dems need to wake up before it’s too late

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