Democrats are moving to the right, very obviously because of who showed up to vote.
You don’t get more voters by only appealing to the voters you already have. And you don’t get more voters by offering fascists some genocide abroad as a treat when full fat overt fascism is running against you. You just lose people who don’t like genocide.
You may think it’s unfair that you can’t have your genocide and voters too, but that’s the world we inhabit.
Unfortunately, politicians don’t usually see it the same way. Turnout has been low for decades, and young people and progressives are some of the most unreliable voting blocs, especially when people like Briahna think that not participating in the general election is sending any other message other than ‘don’t listen to me’. It’s not even like a ‘politicians are duplicitous’ thing, it’s survival of the fittest: conservative Democrats have a much easier job entrenching themselves than progressives because their voters are older and more reliable, so over time this just selects for more conservative politicians.
Turnout has been low for decades, and young people and progressives are some of the most unreliable voting blocs
If you never appeal to them, your party will wither and die as its current crop of geriatric dipshits goes to make hell a worse place.
It’s not even like a ‘politicians are duplicitous’ thing, it’s survival of the fittest: conservative Democrats have a much easier job entrenching themselves than progressives because their voters are older and more reliable, so over time this just selects for more conservative politicians.
Democrats do everything they can to block better candidates. The genocidal shit represents you, so you pretend that it represents the will of the people.
You need more voters to win. You know where they are.
You don’t get more voters by only appealing to the voters you already have. And you don’t get more voters by offering fascists some genocide abroad as a treat when full fat overt fascism is running against you. You just lose people who don’t like genocide.
You may think it’s unfair that you can’t have your genocide and voters too, but that’s the world we inhabit.
Unfortunately, politicians don’t usually see it the same way. Turnout has been low for decades, and young people and progressives are some of the most unreliable voting blocs, especially when people like Briahna think that not participating in the general election is sending any other message other than ‘don’t listen to me’. It’s not even like a ‘politicians are duplicitous’ thing, it’s survival of the fittest: conservative Democrats have a much easier job entrenching themselves than progressives because their voters are older and more reliable, so over time this just selects for more conservative politicians.
If you never appeal to them, your party will wither and die as its current crop of geriatric dipshits goes to make hell a worse place.
Democrats do everything they can to block better candidates. The genocidal shit represents you, so you pretend that it represents the will of the people.
You need more voters to win. You know where they are.