Doing the Men in Black mind erasing thing on each other every six months so they can all say this and feel like the idea is new and they came up with it themselves.
What the Dems don’t realize is that Bernie and AOC weren’t out to destroy the party, they were the last chance to prevent the party from destroying itself.
The big funders of the Party tell the Party leaders that’s all they’ll fund. So Dems remain (so far) a party that can’t credibly tell voters that it fights for them—-because only some Dems do, not a sufficient majority to pass life-changing legislation. We can change this! Primary where we can.
Better hope people start engaging locally or another new party won't mean shyte. The system is "rigged" against them from the start, unless folks start voting in people who will change it locally FIRST.
heres how i knew the fix was in: i was in iowa in 2020, and literally nobody, NOBODY wanted biden. yet that is the only person i got calls or canvassing people to come - i knew thats who The Party wanted. and theyre gonna do it again in 2028 for someone else who sucks
Sure Biden ran in the center. But he governed a lot more to the left than I thought he would.
But part of the centrist myopia now may be how unpopular Joe was while governing more from the left.
Although there were plenty of contributing factors to that having nothing to do with how he governed.
because the people he paid to be slaughtered by Israel were sending us videos on SM showing just how helped they were and how much a baldfaced liar Biden and his admin was.
He governed right of where he ran. He promised to follow the science and protect workers from COVID, but told OSHA to stand down on science-based rules they had prepared on PPE and ventilation in the workplace, he aborted COVID relief checks and forced kids back to in-person before vax avail for <12
In this context left right and center is not talking about capitalism (right) socialism(left) and center (presumably democratic socialism) it’s talking about American voters who are uninformed not paying attention opinionated stupid and fickle. For the dems to head left is to head center.
The stupidity explanation is a double edged sword & a trap. A sufficiently stupid society can't be democratic. Too many people need a daddy. And hence feudalism.
Also missin: hybrid warfare is happening right now, this is part of what's going on; and disinformation by most of the media.
Jeffries assuredly means throwing trans people and immigrants under the bus while promising tax cuts for the rich Silicon Valley bros he was talking to. You can decide for yourself if that is left, right, or center.
American voters have literally always been uninformed. That’s why populism is so effective. Dems need to learn to fucking listen to the people. When we say we can’t afford groceries, showing us graphs about how great the economy is, isn’t an effective strategy.
Maybe the purity protest non-voters can quit fucking over America with their black or white, my way or the highway or I’ll sit on my hands on election day circular firing squad BS?
Even if all those people voted Kamala, they'd never have been enough to swing it for her. They'd have to have voted 3x each. We have to face the facts that Trump won the popular vote. Then maybe we can move on with a better strategy
America at the crossroads of actually trying new things, or doing the same thing that didnt work for the hundredth time and hoping the votes will materialise out of thin air and deciding the latter is more realistic would be funny if it wasnt so sad
Whats sad is that you clearly arent paying attention. Biden ushered in the largest investment in US since LBJ, some would say FDR - & largely amidst a global pandemic.
You may also look for an alternative online seller yourself. Also an option: write the name down and go to a local library or book store and ask for it. If they (Either library or book store) don't have it, they'll usually order it in for you. You can make some effort yourself.
Thanks! I have wanted a new ebook but am not using Amazon anymore. I’m having trouble getting into https://bookshop.org, but will try again. It locked me out.
happened to me too when i forgot my password. You get another chance in a couple hours, if i remember correctly, but shoot them an email and they'll reset it for you quickly.
Rahm Emmanuel is going to get a national media press tour on the national civic importance of voting for Blue Dogs 2.0 and they explicitly are going to say stuff like "in 2006, there were 50 Blue Dogs, now there are only 10, because Democrats have moved away from the center"
"Because they all got elected in 2006 and 2008 when anyone with a D next to their name had a good shot to win, then they were all fucking annihilated in 2010"
Everyone unhappy about this should send Leader Jeffries an E-mail to Let Him Know. Demand that Democrats go back to running on Hope and Change again, not more of the same. Demand they campaign for specific policies like Free and Unlimited Health Insurance for All, Protections for Our Rights, etc.
Outlaw Billionaires and Mega Millionaires, Provided Basic Income for All Americans, No Restrictions on Immigration, PRO-DEI Laws and Reforms, Ban Nazis from Military Service and Government Jobs, Decriminalize Sex Work, More Unions, Higher Wages, BAN FOSSIL FUELS, SAVE THE DAMNED PLANET.
There's a 2000-word limit on the e-mail so you may not be able to fit everything in (I could not), but the more big sweeping leftist/progressive reforms you demand, the more it shifts the Overton window inside his head.
If you don't, he's just going to keep listening to the rich billionaire party donors and policy advisors who keep telling him to drive to the Center. But if enough of us start yelling at him about what we actually want, we just might be able to get him to listen.
We need to reach out to white male MAGA voters, and win over their hearts and minds. If we can show them statistics and diagrams, they will wake up and do the right thing.
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Hay, you guyzes! Remember when the dumb kids bullied the smart kids? And the grownups who were supposed to protect us didn't do anything? And we eventually concluded that they were worse than useless; they were throwing us under the bus?
This has big "just ignore the bullies" energy.
We'll have a Jesse Owens before Hitler opportunity today. What message will the athletes and celebrities give? “End Racism” vs. “Choose Love.”,,, there’s no competition here at all. It’s “End Racism” by a mile." Steve Buckley, NYTimes https://bit.ly/42N1pAU
Dumbest idea ever.
Anger in America is legitimately founded in a multi-decade obsession w/ neoliberal trickle down causing obscene wealth inequality.
The visual obscenity of thumbs down, curtsy Sinema against ⬆️ the minimum wage fueled it, and the tone deafness of the Biden campaign cemented it.
Democrats need to take a moderate stance on many things. They must champion the working class with an emphasis on truth/honesty/equality. Promote the message widely- we need transparency in gov’t & access to the plan. Offer a counter project for everyday people in comparison to project 2025.
Didn’t dnc tell us in court they’re incorporated private club that doesn’t have to play by their own rules? This was expected. We don’t have a place unless we start making plans with the Unions and form an independent labor alliance party.
So, what have we learned, they have no real or effective plan; just going back to all that got us here. Obviously he’s still on that paid to lose plan with the donors.
The answer is obvious, 36% of registered voters stayed home, they need to be reaching out to the people.
Or - even - like you said - EMBRACE the voters who stay home, because they refuse to assist in this CONFEDERATE COUP of millionaires, on both sides of the goddamned aisle.
They have inadvertently painted themselves as the center to their depleted voters while still being painted as the woke left by their rivals, unsurprisingly losing both their core and target audiences.
Congress typically has above average intelligence they know the numbers and the polling they are aware of what is popular. The problem is they are corporate captured and they want to win elections without having to make any campaign promises they can't keep as they govern for the wealthy.
Absolutely.
However, they gleefully make campaign promises they do not keep. I figured that out after I voted in 2008.
I mean, sure, it might win them an election but they seem to be realizing we are on to them now.
This is true $15mw and the public option come to mind, but it's even more Insidious they want the national dialogue to focus around conservative narratives not Progressive/Socialist solutions. That's how we ended up with a lethal military, fracking is transitional, tough on immigration.
Reaching towards the center is code for doing what billionaires want. Struggling Americans need radical change. Massive taxes on rich & their corporations like FDR did in the Depression. For 40+ years Democrats & Republicans have served the rich. You get huge billionaires & the rest of us in debt.
Oh FFS I was not aware of this! Thank you for your reply in sharing such horrific information. Blackrock are responsible for some incredible dirty deeds.
And the billionaires don't win them elections like they used to but that's the whole point of cozying up to corporations.
The democrat party is the stable engine of our death spiral, refusing to change or learn any lessons, enabling the right to look appealing by comparison to every day people.
Facts
And they need to stop crying screaming and throwing up over the fact that Progressives refuse to follow them off that right leaning "centrist" cliff.
It's a class war, they joined the GOP side, and yet they refuse to just admit that.
... but crying, screaming and throwing up over the idea that the opposition to Trump might popularise left-wing ideas is their entire raison d'etre? Gotta have someone to police the opposition and make sure nobody can actually come up with solutions to the problems you're causing.
This isn’t about the Democrats being a perfect party, what we need is to coalition build with them so we can systematically out the dinosaurs and fill their positions with people who care
With all due respect, your idea sucks. Republicans infight constantly but they win elections because they align when the time comes. The left is always too afraid to disagree with anybody “on their team” and then it all falls apart during election time. That’s exactly how we got last year’s disaster
Almost like incrementalism has been working wonders for the fascists but the Left would rather throw a tantrum whenever Bernie or someone gets snubbed and decides to become “anti-authorityTM”
If they can’t be successful even in Democrat primaries; it’s incredibly unlikely some far left 3rd party would be successful; especially as infighting of who and what qualifies as left and pure enough would rage and likely lead to further splits.
Same tired ass playbook. GOP depends on the mindset of ME. Dems should be focusing on WE. They should be talking about the things the programs we can have if we come together. Dems need to move farther left to a socialist plan.
The only way to combat capitalism is with socialism.
Jeffries is a fucking wimp. Center? is he kidding. Democrats always fucking placating, how did that work Jeffries? Felon and the GOP went fucking hard right and won. There is no fucking center with Project 2025 dumb ass.
It's exactly how Harris ran (the article covers is in more detail), and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is NOT the sort of "Democrat" the leadership needs to be recruiting and wasting party resources on.
Thank you this is not the Democratic party being tied to a losing strategy so much as being corporate captured. How they win elections without actually governing from the left.
Correct. If one looks at the activities of the Clintonite-right "Democratic leadership," they would seem insane to any observer who didn't look beyond the surface.
The truth is that they're corrupt politicians who prostitute their offices to entrenched interests opposed to progressive reform and do what their donors tell them. A big part of their job is simply hamstringing, attenuating, preventing needed progressive reform while posing as a liberal party.
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
Seriously?!
This is stunningly stupid. I’m sorry but Ds are definitely not playing to win. Please rethink this strategy. Class war should be prioritized. With healthcare and the economy top issues. Move left on healthcare. Most people will agree with this.
And I am a centrist! But I can see where the wind is blowing. Moving towards center doesn’t speak to concerns of the people. It speaks to a theory that hasn’t worked except accidentally. Speak simply and directly, on repeat, to a plan for real people.
Also, don’t use DT as the focus. That hasn’t helped either. Zone in on the real enemy: the elite oligarchical billionaires, soon to be trillionaires, out for ever greater control, which necessitates taking away from everyday people. DT is their puppet, he doesn’t need to be the focal point.
Dems joined the GOP side of the class war in the early 1990s. A lot of GenX saw the writing on the wall back then. We didn't really have the numbers generationally to counteract the Boomers until GenZ came along.
We now have a fascist party and a Republican party. And last time I was in a Republican party, I moved away, changed my religion, personality and my Fucking legal name, just to get away from it. #demisthenewrepub
I'm mean, really motherfucker? What the damn fuck? You were all in with the tough talk like 5 minutes ago, and now this shit? You have GOT TO BE KIDDING!!!!
I take back what I said about the most annoying part of middle age is watching the Republican playbook work over and over again. The REALLY annoying part is watching Democrats try the exact same response every goddamn time and never learn that nobody wants Republican-lite.
I wholly think this is what happens when the first d trizzy championship america tour left people cheering for Pelosi who like... I'm gonna say it.... Really a bad person who makes a comical amount of wealth playing "slightly less evil"
I think there is a huge part of the problem when people
All this does is move everyone toward the right. So the democrats continue to lose the far left who feel abandoned and adopt the formerly right people who are now too far left to be included in maga. Effectively setting back the far left about 20 years in terms of political viability.
@progressforus.org is a potential option for a left wing party. They’ve mostly done advertising on TikTok, but they have relatively realistic goals instead of just “run for president immediately” and they’ve actively worked outside of just the election cycle. Just my opinion though.
Not in our system. We would have to enact Ranked Choice popular vote in our states and somehow neutralize PAC donations first, then have government willing to replicate it on a federal level. Fixing voting machines mess likewise.
Nothing stopping the creation of a third party. Yes our system makes only two parties viable at a time. That doesn’t prevent a new party from emerging and replacing an existing one. It’s happened multiple times throughout US history.
Are you in the streets protesting? If the answer to that question is no, I implore you to ask yourself why they would do that if they win their local seats.
Sadly, there are too few "leftists" in the US for an actual left-leaning party to do better than 3rd party numbers. The big "middle" of the country fears us a lot more than they fear actual fascists. The backlash against the "hippies" that started with Reagan in the '80s just never was undone.
(And it looks like we've lost most of a generation of young men to the right: so we're even further away from progressives being viable than we were 10 years ago; or we would be if there were going to be free elections again in our lifetimes...)
In this day with information so readily available, being an undecided means that you have your head up your ass and can't be bothered to learn the basic facts of how our country functions. Course that could also be said for many of the Trump voters.
They HAVE centrist voters pretty much locked up. They're trying to chase "moderate Republicans", a voting bloc that simply doesn't exist, because their corporate backers oppose the Democrats moving even slightly leftwards. It's absolute insanity, and Jeffries and the rest need to be primaried.
their hope is that 2 years of trumpian chaos will lower everyone's standards. to their credit, it worked in 18 and 20. we're getting to a point where they can sit to the right of reagan and still play the lesser evil, and they'll yell at us about how wanting anything better just helps trump somehow
That's inherently unsustainable, though. Even if America survives this nightmare presidency, there's only so many cycles this can go on before Dems are trying to play centrist while standing to the right of Hitler while the GOP are running a platform of using AI to make Hell real.
Not just them. This site is full of their foot soldiers, screaming at "uncommitted" and ranting about Jill Stein. Badgering anyone who points out the insanely obvious truth you've just outlined. Maybe their biggest area of success in this era.
Whether or not you believe Musk's goons tampered with the vote count (I'm still up in the air either way), pivoting further to the right is only going to alienate actual Democratic voters without picking up anywhere near enough "moderate Republicans" to make up for it, because they do not exist.
It doesn’t matter to them if it works. It’s fine if it does, because they’ll have a coalition that won them the election without making any demands. If it doesn’t, they just blame the left and do the same thing again
The entire "Dem leadership" in congress should have resigned in shame after last year. Barring that, they should be primaried into non-existence, along with every other Clintonite-right "Democrat."
Just take the membership of the Blue Dog Coalition, the New Democrat Coalition and the Problem Solvers caucus and primary the lot of them into oblivion forever.
The DNC needs to become more queerphobic? That's as original as a seasonal isekai, its never been done before and has worked before perfectly! /j
It's sad that people still take the electoral college seriously when the DNC has mastered the Joestars' secret technique of running away.
@davidhogg.bsky.social as the new chair of the DNC, someone needs to step in and tell them that using the strategy that lost the election last time is probably not a good strategy to win this time. Maybe they should act like they actually want to save democracy and swing for the left.
Correction: Hogg is the new Vice-Chair of the DNC. Some guy from Minnesota got the top slot. My state was contested in 2004. We got a lot of attention from the National folks; Kerry ran a terrible campaign. As if he didn't want to win, honestly. Obama, on the other hand, ran an excellent campaign.
I cannot tell you how uninvested I am in swinging closer to conservative ideology. The WHOLE POINT of fascism is erasing the idea that different laws and rulesets are possible and better. NOT a good read of this, our fuckery era.
What is submission?
Certainly arguing one of two viable candidates in a US presidential election supports genocide, then arguing voters should stay home, vote third-party, or voted Trump (who tried to implement a Muslim ban) to teach Dems a lesson is nothing less than submission to the far-right.
Why did the far-left put on a show urging people to vote third-party, stay home, or voted for Trump to teach Dems a lesson if Harris didn't have a viable path to election?
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What a curious thing on which to spend time, money, and effort trying to convince people to do something that didn't matter.
Good! I hope I see them out there. I have lots of ‘likely to protest’ friends making lots of posts and yet I’m the only one of them out. There’s so much inertia.
Trump is going to abolish the ADA, and your talking trash to the .01% of Americans literally putting their lives on the line to stop him. Honestly, about half the time I feel like you deserve what’s coming.
That sounds like Jeffries’ plan, which is absolute bullshit. A supermajority of Americans—across both parties—support left policies like universal healthcare, workers' rights, and taxing the rich. On a long enough timeline, we’ll get there, but why wait? A strong 3rd party could emerge now.
Something like 29% of left leaning households are armed based on the latest poll I read.
I follow the topic because I am a left leaning gun owner. I can’t speak for MAGA but the sentiment I am seeing is gun owners want more gun owners regardless of political affiliation to prevent gun control laws
Maybe it could work, if paired with a desperate gaslighting campaign that millions of people not voting for them is a failure of millions of leftists, rather than a small handful of right-wing political strategists!
I hope Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Colorado, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, Maryland, Maine, Minnesota, Connecticut, Oregon, Washington, Vermont (their Republican governor voted for Harris BTW) and Hawaii will secede too.
CA has started the process. It’s a long process with extremely high voter turn out necessary in CA for 2026 and then the house has to vote 3/4 yes and the senate 2/3 yes in 2028. Plus a panel has to review in the meantime. #calexit started almost a decade ago
IKR but maybe when the blue states secede, Sacramento, California will be the capitol of the Pacifica government while New York City will be the capitol of the Northeast government and Denver, Colorado will be the capitol of the Midwest/Rocky Mountain government.
A lot of people who voted D in 20 and 22 looked at the fact that the Dems couldn't follow through on pretty much anything they promised to the actual left/progressives (and well pretty much anyone not center-right) and they made good on "Being the lesser evil won't work forever"
What the heck ever happened to "we don't negotiate with terrorists"?
The entire GQP party just confirmed the most despicable, underqualified cabinet in the history of the US and is in the process of dismantling democracy with an inside coup in broad daylight - and they want to work with them?
What's in the center? Hating queer and trans? Believing in the border crisis and hating immigrants? Even more cops and lock even more people up? Ooo, maybe tax breaks and deregulation! And small business.
Every day, they remind me why I left. Worse than useless.
they do this because most elected dems are conservative and wish republicans would be more low-key so they'd stop being expected to resist policies they agree with
It's less a question of "being picky" and more of a question of "Hey, Dumb-ass, what you're doing doesn't work".
I agree that the right has more success than they deserve because they rally around their candidate, no matter how loathsome. That said, strategizing does not equal infighting.
Unless you mean they are the easiest to convert into fascists, in which case I have personally witnessed too much of that and I agree. The Manosphere can all too easily ensnare liberal men unfortunately. I've seen it with some ex-friends.
They need to concentrate on the here and now. That would be the special elections in the house for those three people who resigned already. All 3 would take back the house.
The Republican Party use POWER when they get it. If the Dem leadership would've used the Power they were given by 81.2 million voters by passing the voting rights act n Build Back Better that would've improved the lives of Americans n not use the filibuster as an excuse a Dem would be in the WH 2day
The Dem Corporate Elites, establishment, old guard believes they have to play nice with FOTUS n GOP to win elections 🤦🏿♀️ they don't give a damn. You have these same White consultants n strategist who are completely out of touch with the BASE. They refuse to let new generation of leaders take over.
Looking at the Senate seats coming up, it’s probably actually a decent strategy there, and harder for someone new to make a splash. I haven’t looked at House seats, but it probably isn’t so great there, and there are probably a lot more opportunities for Lefter and Younger.
Agreed, and that’s kind of what I was saying. Though that does lead to a lot of people picking out those more “moderate” ones as if they represent the party or some kind of conspiracy.
And a lot of people have been demanding Dems to fall MORE in line, though often expecting that means more left
put all your resources into polarising society into extremes and then have the left reps veer towards the centre right. hand it over to the extreme right without a fight!
I don't follow Jeffries closely enough to even have a clue why he's responding this way. I feel blindsided. What once was a guiding star has become a black hole.
Oh, what? Regardless, unless Trump can find a way to make his appointment a lifetime one, we'll swing back to Democrat, then Republican, and back to Democrat, regardless of what either party actually does.
It's been like this for 200 years, even before southern strategy.
For fuck's sake. This strategy worked for Bill Clinton in 92, and nobody since. Why do they keep trying this? Especially when this is exactly how they lost to Trump again in the first fucking place.
The "middle ground" between sanity and fascism is still way too fucking close to fascism.
The Daily Show had a compilation of Dems who moved further right in the last election. They all lost. Meanwhile, left leaning people did better, simply because they seemed more genuine.
This is the same guy who said not to worry because God was in charge though, so...
I am a Liberal, if I am moving anywhere it's to the fucking left. If Rep. Jeffries is confused about what is need a primary challenge should help. We can do that too. 2026 isn't time to move to the center and someone better tell these fools that.
Crushing the Left in times of capitalist crisis is the fundamental and most important part of fascism and Democrats have been hard at work doing so for at least 4 years now
Yes this is true. I think we get the Fettermans because of low turnout more than our direction. We are a big tent party but 30% of our party doesn't or can't show up because of voter suppression. We loss in 24 because millions of people didn't vote for whatever reason. I think people thought there
Was no way trump could win. For whatever reason, we need energy like 08 and 20. Unfortunately, we don't show up till shit gets that bad( super recession, botched pandemic). Good news is if we have an election in 26 🙏 the way this shitshow is effecting people, we should have a supermaj in Congress
Aren’t we dems as a party further to the right than Nixon? I’m old. I don’t want to move further to whatever tf they think is center.
I feel like, “Dems: Just like the other guys, but without the death squads.”
Honestly it’s sad that whoever is running against a gop seat will even need to campaign in 2026. The whole country (including maga) should be lining up to put the brakes on the new regime and our unelected tiny king
Reaching toward the center is a fool's game and is a stupid plan. When 37% of voters stayed home, it's time to try to appeal to them instead of courting morons who think both sides have good ideas
One side wants freedom, health, and equal footing for all. The other wants to subjugate those deemed as "other." I'm not interested in appeasing anyone who even thinks there IS middle ground
It's wild to me that "none" has won every election since 1904.
Clearly people don't want to vote for some reason. Going more centrist hasn't worked, and "Trump is worse" only worked 1 of 3 times. Maybe there's a reason, like "watering down your platform makes you boring". What a original idea.
But the party is run by geriatrics who are afraid of shadows and the campaign had an awful strategy (both in terms of the contents of messages AND how to relay them to voters).
I genuinely think Republicans are bribing Democratic consultants to sabotage the party. This stuff is all obvious.
Seeing #democrats continue to prattle on about “reaching for the middle” makes me not give a shit about voting. I’ve voted my whole life, but the slide right is only hastened by compromise with a party of unyielding fascists. EMBRACE PROGRESS OR GET OUT OF THE WAY. #aoc #bernie #jasminecrockett
I don't think he's daft.
He's a sellout. Like so many others, I think he's bought and paid for. Now he's just talking shit for the sake of blue maga. He's starting with the 'send us money so we can get this done next time' BS early.
Depends. If Musk violates court orders and gets away with it, you are right. If President Musk is deposed by the #procrimeGOP, the senile convicted felon with the nominal title of President will go back to just being incompetent, and we will survive the Trump years battered but not broken.
I think we didn’t have one since 2016. The only reason we got 2020 is because he couldn’t control the mail ins in PA. But in his own words, he got Elon on it this time and that fixed it.
If we're sensible, we don't. Trump just fired the apolitical Archivist and will fill the post with a "reliable person". The Archivist maintains the roll of electors and certificates of vote. He'll be able to declare any EC votes invalid at will by decertifying electors and returning his own results.
Tell me you don't know how elections work without, etc...
(Protip: every election is managed on the local level. Your state Secretary of State and your county clerk are the ones who do all this. NARA plays no role whatsoever in this.)
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But part of the centrist myopia now may be how unpopular Joe was while governing more from the left.
Although there were plenty of contributing factors to that having nothing to do with how he governed.
Weird how that gets forgotten
Also missin: hybrid warfare is happening right now, this is part of what's going on; and disinformation by most of the media.
Ty.
Instead of appealing to a legitimate policy. You just end up legitimizing extremist ideology
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This has big "just ignore the bullies" energy.
*loses*
“In order to win, we shouldn’t pander to the left anymore”
Anger in America is legitimately founded in a multi-decade obsession w/ neoliberal trickle down causing obscene wealth inequality.
The visual obscenity of thumbs down, curtsy Sinema against ⬆️ the minimum wage fueled it, and the tone deafness of the Biden campaign cemented it.
The answer is obvious, 36% of registered voters stayed home, they need to be reaching out to the people.
He understands technology
They don’t.
They just don’t.
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2015/05/when-political-parties-fail-to-show-ideological-differences,-centrist-voters-are-less-likely-to-vote,-stanford-expert-says
to learn to be progressive is popular
However, they gleefully make campaign promises they do not keep. I figured that out after I voted in 2008.
I mean, sure, it might win them an election but they seem to be realizing we are on to them now.
The democrat party is the stable engine of our death spiral, refusing to change or learn any lessons, enabling the right to look appealing by comparison to every day people.
And they need to stop crying screaming and throwing up over the fact that Progressives refuse to follow them off that right leaning "centrist" cliff.
It's a class war, they joined the GOP side, and yet they refuse to just admit that.
Republicans have gone full Nazi and Democrats are just a bunch of headless chickens running around.
The only way to combat capitalism is with socialism.
The right is the minority.
Higher turnout ALWAYS favors Dems.
Yet instead of emphasizing the majority of the country, they lean toward the loud stupid people who comprise 30% of the electorate.
https://jriddle.medium.com/dem-bones-2024-autopsy-of-a-choice-e8bdd04f63c3
https://rollcall.com/2023/03/10/dccc-picks-29-frontline-members-for-extra-help-next-year/
https://jriddle.medium.com/zombies-dinosaurs-that-definition-of-insanity-clintonite-right-democratic-leadership-its-e5fd48f37f51
Seriously?!
This is stunningly stupid. I’m sorry but Ds are definitely not playing to win. Please rethink this strategy. Class war should be prioritized. With healthcare and the economy top issues. Move left on healthcare. Most people will agree with this.
Ultimate success may require reconciliation with former opponents.
Unity
I'll wait.
I think there is a huge part of the problem when people
The focus should be the 36% of non-voters.
The center is the majority of voters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
Don't laugh at their conspiracies for four years and pitch your own.
No one wants the Liz Cheney cop party.
It's sad that people still take the electoral college seriously when the DNC has mastered the Joestars' secret technique of running away.
Certainly arguing one of two viable candidates in a US presidential election supports genocide, then arguing voters should stay home, vote third-party, or voted Trump (who tried to implement a Muslim ban) to teach Dems a lesson is nothing less than submission to the far-right.
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What a curious thing on which to spend time, money, and effort trying to convince people to do something that didn't matter.
Harris runs on Republican policies, loses.
The democrats: we should run on republican policies!
Trump runs and governs on Trump policies, worst President ever say Democrats
The US 'center' is now what European politicians call their far right.
My point is we do have to tug hard to the left by demanding all of those policies you listed.
Universal healtcare should become what's seen as the new center.
This is why we need a viable 3rd party & ranked choice voting.
I don’t want to vote for republican light. This is why 1/3 of the voting public just fuck off on voting day.
I follow the topic because I am a left leaning gun owner. I can’t speak for MAGA but the sentiment I am seeing is gun owners want more gun owners regardless of political affiliation to prevent gun control laws
Or maybe they’ll actually have a message that is feasible and wanted by that large middle, who am I to say.
The entire GQP party just confirmed the most despicable, underqualified cabinet in the history of the US and is in the process of dismantling democracy with an inside coup in broad daylight - and they want to work with them?
they're so stupid
Every day, they remind me why I left. Worse than useless.
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, remind me again - was it the center that didn't show up to vote in November 2024??
I thought you were better than this. 😕 Y'all need to stop listening to the has-been moron brothers (Emmanuel, Carville, Alexrod).
I agree that the right has more success than they deserve because they rally around their candidate, no matter how loathsome. That said, strategizing does not equal infighting.
Moving center doesn’t help. Did you miss the 2024 election?
I've witnessed more Conservatives come leftwards after them fucking around and then finding out than I ever seen with free-market liberals.
And that's just the regular voters, let alone trying to make politicians less right wing.
No campaign contributions untold Dem electeds get *arrested* defending our democracy.
The middle of what? What is middle in a global oligarchy??
And a lot of people have been demanding Dems to fall MORE in line, though often expecting that means more left
It's been like this for 200 years, even before southern strategy.
.. Pelosi shouldn't have blocked AOC from that committee seat...
The "middle ground" between sanity and fascism is still way too fucking close to fascism.
This is the same guy who said not to worry because God was in charge though, so...
I feel like, “Dems: Just like the other guys, but without the death squads.”
Clearly people don't want to vote for some reason. Going more centrist hasn't worked, and "Trump is worse" only worked 1 of 3 times. Maybe there's a reason, like "watering down your platform makes you boring". What a original idea.
I genuinely think Republicans are bribing Democratic consultants to sabotage the party. This stuff is all obvious.
He's a sellout. Like so many others, I think he's bought and paid for. Now he's just talking shit for the sake of blue maga. He's starting with the 'send us money so we can get this done next time' BS early.
More likely democrats will try to attract republicans again, lose again, and blame Russia again.
(Protip: every election is managed on the local level. Your state Secretary of State and your county clerk are the ones who do all this. NARA plays no role whatsoever in this.)