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Democrats Shocked By Success Of Left-Wing Candidate Offering Left-Wing Policies To Left-Wing Voters
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this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2025
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See what you are doing there? How you are trying to reframe the point into something it isn't?
The question if djt or Joe Biden being better is a non issue, because the election wasn't actually between two deeply unpopular candidates: it was between voting and not voting, and not voting won by a landslide.
If you don't change your understanding into these terms you'll never actually be able to push down facsism, because, as demonstrated, being a lessor evil simply isn't good enough. It's not a negotiation. There is no wiggle room. You fail to present a better option, and you are intentionally trying to lose.
I'll try to work it out, as people are currently dying in El Salvadorean concentration camps, of pregancy difficulties, and due to measles and any other medical denialism. As allies are betrayed to generational enemies, and Drumpf flirts with WW3. As the world, but especially the US economy crashes. As millions of people lose their jobs. I'll say it again for those who have their heads up their own asses. Drumpf must lose FIRST to potentially save the world. It's possible that it's already too late and that there will not be another election. The stakes can't be much higher. THEN fix your stupid electoral system.
You want the electorate to be different than it is. You want them to have seen the existential threat which Trump was and is. You want them to be engaged and committed to showing up even when there is nothing on the ballot for them. I wish that voters were better than they are too.
But this is reality and we don't get to base our strategies on how we wish things are. We have to base them on how they actually are. We can't run campaigns for the voters we wished we have access to, we have to base the campaigns on the voters we actually have access to.
You want the electorate to be different than it is; but it isn't. If you approach predicates the electorate be different than they are, you will lose.
You either meet the voters where they are at or you are making a conscious choice to lose.
Great explanation.
Too bad it'll fall on plugged ears.
holding it down fam. today was a good day.
He already lost in 2020!.
But the Democrats insistence on using him as the only justification for voting for them meant he came right back
Look, the average American is not the most well-reasoned individual. Not always their fault due to the situations we are all in over here. The main cultural systems are primarily focused on punishment, not reward. The average American isn't well-educated, because again, why would they when there isn't a tangible, understandable reward?
This means that getting people to do what you want is like herding cats. If you have a group of cats and bring them two food choices, and a large portion of the cats hate both, they will display protest behaviour and pout while the food is picked at by the other cats.
You mentioned in another comment about not living in the past. I had to vent about the protest voters too, but I also understand it is a core, unshakable value for them. The past is important to learn from, and the Dem party needs to do so, or people like Trump will never face actual opposition in the polls.
The main problem with ignoring the past is repeating mistakes. The main frustration with learning from the past is to watch others make those mistakes while they ignore your warnings.
I know it's rough-and-tumble and this was a long message. Hope you find peace where you can and support from those around you. ❤️
the electoral system is working as designed so there's nothing to fix.
the way it works against the will of the people was its main goal as it was designed to prevent other very popular social movements (eg anti-slavery) from gaining popular approval.