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I'm a little dumb, and not an American. Can someone explain how democrates are using republicans to kill voters?
It has been the Democrat's major strategy to gain political power in this country since 2016 when Trump first took office to advocate for a certain type of negative politics that isn't the Republicans, rather than advocating for a positive politics focused on what makes the Democrats.
Establishment Dems use the existence of MAGA Republicans to try to persuade voters that they're at least not as bad as MAGA, when they should be spending the time between elections persuading voters with all the good policies that defined the Dems for decades: positive immigration, civil rights, social safety nets, etc.
Establishment Dems have a politics of what are we against, while new sects of the party like Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have a politics of what are we for. The latter are seeing amazing success across the country.
they should be spending the time between elections persuading voters with all the good policies that defined the Dems for decades: positive immigration, civil rights, social safety nets, etc.
except they no longer support those policies.
It refers to the last 20 years or so, where the democrats platform has been so terrible, that the only way they get elected, is because they are not Republicans.
Obama only got elected because of how terrible Bush was, then Biden got elected because of how terrible Trump was.
The problem is this strategy only works with recency bias and people are starting to ignore it.
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the democrat election strategy for the last few election cycles has been to promise no substantial improvement and just point at the republicans. obama was the last democrat president who remembered to lie and make big promises.
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Not an American either but I think it's more like democrates threatens the voters that if they don't vote for them, republicans are gonna kill them. Republicans are definitely making things worse, and democrates are blaming leftists that didn't vote for them.
As an American, I can confirm that every election cycle is literally this. In 25 or so years of voting, I have never once avoided some talking head explaining how any policy left of processing immigrants into Sysco food would alienate "moderates" and lose the election to someone that's actually bad.
As if they would be processed into something edible were talking about Americans it would be left to rot for a while then made prison grade
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The Democratic party largely runs on a platform based more on counteracting the Republican party less than substantially improving anything. Despite claiming to be progressive, they have slowly shifted to the right over decades, and manage to bungle easy wins again and again.
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So vote to get stabbed in the back or stabbed in your chest.
I don't understand how people can argue you should choose one at all. I don't want to be harmed at all and it's not my fault for wanting that.
The crazy thing is, primaries exist, and an engaged coalition within a given political party can make an outsized impact in them, and then the party just is whatever those primary voters determine it is. That's how we got Trump's Republicans in the first place, and that's how we got Mayor Mamdani, over the objections of the previous establishment in both cases.
The only obstacle is if the coalition is so disorganized, or their views are so niche, that they can't even win a primary with a fraction of a fraction of the turnout for a general election, and if that's the case, then... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The DNC has argued in court that it has no obligation to provide a fair elections in the primaries. That's also just not really how parties work in general. Parties can purge whoever they feel like.
If we're supposed to just rely on primaries and treat them as free and fair elections, then what exactly would be the issue with a one-party state? If you don't like the way the one party is running things, just join them and start an internal movement to change things. It's the exact same logic.
Comments like this just serve to absolve the people who do show up to primaries for being pieces of shit. And believe me, as someone who has phone banked plenty, they are fully aware they're fighting leftists and progressives. 🤷♂️
You tell us we're disorganized or niche fine. That means another group is organized and therefore has the power. That means they are responsible for outcomes. They are responsible for Joe Biden blocking a rail strike, going around congress twice to ship weapons to Israel in order to be used in a genocide, failing to bring Trump to justice and ultimately losing the general election in 2024 due to hanging on too long so a proper primary couldn't be run.
If you aren't willing to acknowledge that side of the conversation then you're just another liberal trying to absolve yourself of the failures you and your organized group have caused. If you aren't willing to take responsibility then stop showing up in the primaries and get the fuck out of the way. 🤷♂️
Does this count as voter intimidation?
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