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I get what you're saying. My point is that people don't pay attention because they don't see someone that actually listens to them. If a candidate was listening to them, their existence would be known to most of the people who don't show up for the primary and they would've shown up.
Right. That’s the problem. The candidates aren’t trying to date us. We are supposed to be selecting OUR representation. This is the message we should be sharing with one another proving how political engagement actually changes things, instead of the same old misinformation about ‘the DNC controlling everything’ and ‘two wings of the same bird’ nonsense. We just proved that turnout = change. We need more people to take this seriously.
No, the political candidates are trying to gain their votes, which is more serious than "dating". If they can't even put in the effort to show themselves as a listener, why would anyone trust that they will fight for them to change the system to fix their problems?
Your logic completely relies on an ideal form that most Americans cannot hope to achieve due to them living paycheck to paycheck and having more direct problems they need to care about.
What Mamdani has proven is that if you show that you're willing to listen to them, they will show up for you for the primary despite them not being engaged in politics. Did you think the reason all these people are showing up to vote because they're suddenly well-informed on the political landscape and looked into each candidate's history to make the right choice? I doubt that. I also doubt they will show up to the next primary if the candidates are just as unexciting as previous primaries.
You misunderstand. I’m saying people don’t want big money candidates, right? We want new, progressive, people like us. Those candidates run often, but they don’t have the money to reach you. If we did our job of researching and voting for all of the candidates in every primary we are eligible to vote in, we wouldn’t have a government full of career incumbents.
Mamdani had grown a network of 50k people canvassing NYC for him. That’s hardly possible in Texas districts without a big fuel budget. We need to do our job of actively looking for our representation in every primary, rather than rewarding the wealthy ones that can afford to show up in our living rooms.