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I've changed my mind on this.
Let the DNC go full MAGA and when they lose, because they will lose, they get the heat and we can eject them forever. At least sit them in a corner.
Progressives, you fight if you want but I don't believe the elections will be fair so it's a win win for you.
There are plenty of them if you lurk long enough. They will harp "vote blue, no matter who" and repeating the meme "leopards ate your face". The litmus test is to mention that Democrats did not go left enough which is why people voted for Trump (who promised the always appealing tax cuts amidst the growing inequality and radical reshoring of companies), and blue MAGA will bury their heads in the sand and keep calling Latinos, black folks and white working class and others who are working three jobs, living pay check to paycheck, and can't afford to pay for medical insurance as ignorant, racist, misogynists, Uncle Toms, etc.
Sure it was stupid to vote Trump, but it was more stupid of Democrats to lose to an orange man by not appealing and refusing to acknowledge those who have economic anxieties brought by mismanaged globalisation. It would have been an easy victory, but blue MAGA and DNC do not want to alienate the same donors that fund the Republicans (I mean, look at the screenshot where it says to court big donors instead).
Average red fascist preferring literal fascists to the dreaded Shitlibs(tm)
You have it the other way around. It is the Shitlibs(tm) preferring literal fascists by not going left enough on common sense policies that the rest of other developed countries take for granted. By not running on popular policies, Shitlibs are tacitly allowing literal fascists to take power. Instead, all the Shitlibs/blue MAGA say is "I am not my opponent. And you will be happy with our breadcrumb policies or the other guy wins! (But we don't care, we get paid by our corporate donors regardless)"
You couldn't be more transparent if you tried
I appreciate you clearing up your AgEnDa
Of course Third Way and neoliberals still think we're in pre-recession era when appealing to moderates still work in the face of growing wealth inequality. If your way is the only way, why keep losing?
On its face, your idea falls apart on even the slightest inspection. This thread is full of that and we don't need to pretend everyone calling you out needs to rehash it
Which party lost twice and will only keep losing?
Scroll up and down. You can find plenty of well worded arguments that dash yours to pieces. I'm not spending more of my mental health on you.
Right, let me put it another way. If Dem strategy works, why are they losing?
"The definition of insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results." No wonder mental health is affected and keep losing because blue MAGA keep banging their heads to the wall for the past 10 years.
Third way had gone its way. It is time to move over.
Lol did you forget they won big last time? And no I don't say this to comment on their strategy at all. Just to show your criteria is meaningless and moronic. Now go away
Cope
So, the fact that the pendulum has reliably swung back and forth for ... 150 years? ... is of no consequence. If you aren't a troll, you seem to be admitting to being a 16 year old who hates history class.
Yes, of course. Someone with affluenza who never has to deal with consequences of wealth inequality say that.
That makes zero fucking sense. I'm not affluent whatsoever and you have zero reason for thinking that. Blocking this troll. Recommend others don't feed them.
Surveys have actually showed many rich people never thinkof themselves as affluent.
"They didn't go far left enough; therefore, the smarter choice was to vote for the furthest right option available."
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Tell me more about these popular policies. Or rather, tell me more about their popularity in the US electorate.
They didn't offer any meaningful change at a time when voters were upset with the status quo, therefore the voters chose a fascist who was offering something rather than nothing.
At the end of the day, we lost. And we have to talk about why we lost if we want to learn any lessons next time.
Doesn't make it a smart fucking choice. If anything, context makes it stupider.
And unfortunately, 'policy wasn't left enough' isn't the answer.
Dem policy should move leftward, mind you. But not because it'll win us votes. Policy is of marginal importance to everyone save a handful of terminally educated political junkies like us. Dem policy should move leftward because left policy will be better for the country and move the country itself left in the long-term.
Elections, though? We have to win those using different criteria than "What's good for the country."
Or at least, we did. God knows if we'll have meaningful elections again at this point.
So we agree that the DNC did not make a smart choice?
Oh yeah, the DNC made many incredibly stupid choices. Choices both specific to this last election, and more long-term as part of a general pattern of ineptness, mediocrity, and complacency. In any just world, probably a good 90% of them would be out of their jobs, and their names blackened forever as the nitwits who lost American democracy.
Just at the end of the day, the fascist fuckwit should not have been regarded by anyone with more than an ounce of gray matter in their head as an acceptable alternative.
Well the voters did pick the fascist fuckwit, and if we don't want that to happen again then we have to have a deeper conversation, rather than terminating that conversation with the unhelpful observation "voters bad."
Because the point here should be to ask real questions about what we're gonna do differently next time. Deflecting away from our candidates' failures is an attitude that leads to doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Not trying to deflect, but to remind everyone that the failures of the candidate and party are largely not policy-based. "We should have just gone left!" and other easy answers are tempting, but like Bernie and Corbyn, will not bring victory in and of themselves. And the enthusiasm for those answers is often enough to drown out any potential sober analysis, especially in a community as left-leaning as Lemmy.
This user's recent post is a pretty good indicator of how little they understand