Hot Take: Democrats will win up and down the ballot when they become a true left party that prioritizes economic, social, and climate justice. As long as they run as Republican lite, they won't ignite or inspire their base, and will always run as the lesser of two evils. That's not a strategy to win, it's a weak attempt to not lose.
You can't out shame the devil so stop trying to be like him.
@QasimRashid The democrats will never be far left. They are the branch of the billionaire that don't owe fealty to MAGA. Even FDR's great new deal was not motivated by lefitist inclinations so much as the desire to give the people enough to avoid an actual revolution.
No?
@QasimRashid the Democratic Party is like half a dozen parties glommed together because we can’t have more than two viable parties using only first-past-the-post elections. If the party could split up without the separated parts being unelectable the more progressive parts would do a lot better than the more conservative parts. A few places have started that change, but this election was a big setback.
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We tried that in the UK with Jeremy Corbyn. He lost three elections in a row and the Torys were in power years longer than they should have been.
Good luck.
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There is not a majority of hard left voters in the UK or US. If you pursue that as a political movement you will loose every election.
I am just being pragmatic. Win the centre and get things done.
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So they should have been even more left wing and that would have worked?
I think you have a tenuous grasp of Realpolitik, which is often the downfall of the left.
@QasimRashid Yeah. The fact that only Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger had the stones to do the *bare minimum* ethical thing proves the point that the GOP is a totally amoral cult. Appealing to patriotism and morality to a totally amoral cult makes no sense and proved to be totally ineffective.
Why the establishment Democrats keep Charlie Browning the football is beyond me, except that most of them are center right and can’t imagine everyone isn’t like them.
It was 10 Dems in Congress who "chose" to leave for personal reasons, right? It seems to me they just needed to "want" to stay in Congress as badly as GOP did -- both 2022 and 2024. Seems we need to pick our battles right now, because ballots will be as meaningless after 1/20/2025 as the ballots in Russia are.
Trump was *not* lying when he said he'd never need another voter if he won 2024.
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