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People should be allowed to exist
Social programs aren't communism
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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.
Listen, you seem to be confused. The Democratic party isn't there to protect your rights and pioneer progress. They're aim is to win elections. If appealing to the right is what wins them elections then that's what they'll do. It worked for the Republicans so there's no reason to believe it won't help the Democrats win too. They're not there for your benefit. They're there for their benefit.
OP is right though: the Democrats and the Republicans are not like parties in every other democracy, i.e. expressions of specific political ideologies. They are institutional electoral machines, of an institutionally two-party state. They have their altered their ideological core before: prior to FDR the Democrats were basically just populist racists. They can easily alter their ideological core in the future as well. It just so happens that in the latest party system the Democrats have been the machine used by the American centre and centre left.
Edit: by OP I am referring to the comment I'm responding to, that is heavily downvoted.
That was definitely what I meant, perhaps I didn't phrase it particularly well lol. My point was ultimately that Democrats arent much different from the Republicans in so much as they will front whatever they have to to gain and hold power. That's not to say there aren't democrats who truly believe in equality, equity and the rule of law, or insert any specific belief you like, just that you shouldn't expect the party to support those values no matter what. If going maga is what gets democratic politicians into Congress and other positions of power then many of them will toe the line.
You shouldn't hitch your cart to either political party and expect them to always follow your values. Vote into power the people who you believe will stand up for the values you believe in (unless those values are naziistic, racist, homophobic or fascistic, in which case please find the nearest ocean and work out how far you can swim)
Ok but appealing to the right hasn’t won them any elections. The right hates their guts.
Their idea to win elections is to try to beat Republicans in a constituency that is already entrenched for Republicans. This plan is dumb as shit without even talking about ideological reasons to oppose it.
They were campaigning with a fucking Cheney