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People have been calling me pessimistic for saying the midterms are the Dems election to lose but just... For fuck sakes have you all not been paying attention for the last decade?! Like seriously, you people trust the Democrats to run good campaigns? Have you not seen how Republicans have been putting their thumb on the scale every possible chance they get? How many times do you have to go up against a stacked deck before you learn the game is rigged?
If a race is less than +5 in favor of the Dem, it's a loss. If a race is less than +15 in favor of the Dem, it's a toss up. Lots of people taking it as a given that the Dems will take back the House (some dumbasses are even entertaining the idea that they'll magically take the Senate, lol), but it's very much an uphill battle. How the fuck does no one else see this?
Almost every election is the Dems’ to lose. Unfortunately they tend to deliver.
Dems need to lead with bold, sincere policy proposals to meaningfully improve Americans’ living conditions in order to win. We have many young socialists winning primaries and elections with such a strategy, however the establishment dinosaurs are terrified to deliver for their constituents instead of their donors.
If the old guard refuse to get out of the way, and once again return to the familiar identity politics and pro-corporate talking points, they will once again manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
That's still a win for them. For like 90% of our "representatives" they're only Democrats by necessity. The area they live in won't choose a Republican or the Republican role is already taken by a different parasite, so if they want to continue the game of being a political parasite they need to pretend to give a shit about what people want who vote for them. Corpos win, Republicans win, their investments win, so they couldn't possibly care less.
trump would have handily won 2020 if his catastrophic and completely expected bungled response to covid weren't fresh on everyone's minds. as it was, he barely lost that one too