I am still seeing tons of articles in the mainstream media about how Democrats need to win back disaffected Trump voters. This is despite the data which clearly shows that Trump's vote did not increase significantly over 2020, but rather that Democratic voters voted in substantially smaller numbers.
I see no articles about how Democrats need to energize their base to vote, which is what the data indicates. The mainstream narrative is pure bullshit.
Economic values, cultural values, or both?
@dgoldsmith Sigh, that is literally the German Green Party's "strategy" right now.
Measured by the actual laws they're voting in favor of (as part of our recently imploded government), they're leaning hard to the right (anti-poor, anti-refugee, pro-deportation, pro-surveillance), in a bid for right-wing voters, who will never decisively vote for them anyway.
Meanwhile, an *army* of Green Party evangelists is flooding the zone with messaging about how, as a left-leaning voter, you *must* vote for their fucking party, or you're basically a Nazi.
Of course, none of these ass clowns can explain why, as a left-leaning voter, someone would vote for a party that is non-stop enacting right-wing policy. 😑
Added: And most of them seem to believe that the Green Party could even *win* the election ("Habeck4Kanzler"), which is a complete fantasy at this point.
@alxndr @dgoldsmith if you're too moronic to understand "because the other actually existing alternatives are much worse", it's not useful to waste one's time. Enjoy your CDU, Merz is definitely not as right-leaning as Habeck.
You privileged Western clowns don't even understand what you have to lose. Entitled crybabies.
@Stinson_108 @gooba42 @dgoldsmith
> If we are still allowed to vote, Democrats will take the House and Senate in 2026 and the White House in 2028.
And if we have the last thirty years to judge, then proceed to do nothing so that the Republicans regain Congress in 2030 and the White House in 2032.
Obama ran as a progressive and governed as a centrist, and that's why Hillary Clinton's "more of the same" campaign lost. Biden ran as a progressive and governed as a centrist, and that's why Kamala Harris' "more of the same" campaign lost.
The Democrats would rather lose and support their billionaire owners instead of winning.
I pray to a god that I don't believe in that I'm wrong about this.
@dgoldsmith Democrats are rational and believe in the purpose of this country. MAGA is a mob with a lot people who think the US is a tribe defined by genetics, that demons are real, vaccines are poison, and that the purpose of this country is making sure they can buy what they want when they want it.
Not every Republican is like that but many are. They need repair, not a useless pitch from Dems.
Democrats need to shun Nazis. I have no interest in befriending horrible, racist people.
@dgoldsmith so, 3 million Democrats saw the risk of Trump getting elected, escaping justice for the Jan6 insurrection, destroying the very concept of Rule of Law, and just decided to stay home? How does that make any sense?
One has to wonder how many of those missing Dem votes were actively suppressed.
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