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If this post can’t survive on a leftist echo chamber like lemmy without getting ratio’d then how are leftist supposed to do better than democrats?
I don't think leftists are supposed to get a say. It sure seems like that candidacy was railroaded. I assume it'll keep happening until infighting stops. I'd rather see an election where the Harris's of the world are considered conservative candidates.
We have two right wing parties in the US, I fully agree.
Nuance.
Nuance in rhetoric, but same support of corporate top-down controlled government that doesn't give a shit about progress or rights.
The only infighting is liberals that occup leftist spaces, bring their liberalism with them to tell us how weve got it all wrong and heres the solutions we need
By not relying on Democrats and creating your own party?
With what voters?
Interesting… so that is why leftists consistently lose elections.
Zohran Mamdani, AOC, Rashida Talib, Ro Khana, Ilhan Omar, Bernie Sanders, and the rest of the progressives would like a word
All in blue states and still a very small number relative to the democrats that can win outside of blue states.
In other words they can’t win a nation wide election.
gets a list of popular progressives that win elections - "yeah but not like that, lemme move my goalposts real quick"
I like how you ignore the part where those progressives are only popular in blue states. You can’t win nationwide elections with only blue states.
Or are you trying to move the goalpost by pretending we aren’t talking about nation wide elections?
FDR says whut?
Your party has lost 2 elections to a carnival barker. It's time to sit down
Democrats have won the majority of nation wide elections since the 90s.
Trump lost by a larger amount in 2020 than Harris did in 2024.
If right wingers followed the leftist playbook of not voting Trump would’ve lost in 2024 too.
Leftists are the smallest demographic of voters in a democracy.
Your only concern is winning the election and not for advancing workers rights. Obtaining power then doing nothing with it is a lost election.
Yet liberals always come begging for our support, we are Schrodinger's leftist, too small to matter and needed to win elections.
You can’t advance workers rights without winning elections first
Blaming the Democratic Party for the actions of the few that vote against their Democratic party is disingenuous.
Politicians can run as democrats when they aren’t.
Special interest groups can threaten, bribe or blackmail just enough to block legislation they don’t want. Then you scape goat the party that they voted against. It doesn’t make sense.
Anyone trying to win will reach out to anybody that can vote and try to win them over. This is how we know leftist aren’t trying to win or maybe don’t realize they are losing/unpopular because their own behavior.
Interesting a women never won na election yet you pussy licking Harris one of the worst american politicians at the same level as Newsome and Trump