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The big cheap lever that everyone has is voting, and using whatever social leverage you have to get people around you to change their vote.

Primary legacy democrats. In NYC, the primary was the real election. Then vote in the replacement Democrat. Replace any Republican in any elected positions, then start taking a closer look at the local D machine.

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"Many of the most damaging emails suggest the committee was actively trying to undermine Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign. Basically all of these examples came late in the primary -- after Hillary Clinton was clearly headed for victory -- but they belie the national party committee's stated neutrality in the race even at that late stage."

https://web.archive.org/web/20190630070810/https://www.washi...

One could argue the DNCs flagrant corruption was a contributor to the current situation

What if it doesn't work? What if 40% of voters don't flip their vote just because I say so?

Recruit more people to help you changed votes.

Ah yea, the famously successful political approach of “discard half the people, they don’t matter, then throw away half of the ones left over”. Works very well.

This isn't about individuals. The Republican Party is completely complicit and as long as members of that party hold office they will continue. I would love to have multiple qualified candidates to choose from across the spectrum but right now the system has been co-opted and a hard reset is the appropriate response.

Sure. Go ahead. See where it gets you.

Hard resets involve guillotines.

Maybe if they don't like the results of the elections, they'll hold new ones until the "good" result comes out (true story, happened in Romania (a EU country) two years ago).

There was proven massive illegal funding of advertising for one candidate and the election result was annulled and rerun under the existing statutes and regulations under Romanian law, ordered by professional judges in a public legal process that was procedurally fair and had appropriate evidentiary requirements.

Stop parroting lines from organisations dedicated to delegitimising liberal democracies.

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