These are just polls, so vote!
Hopefully these trends will inspire people in states that have been consistently red that a flip this election is possible!
These are just polls, so vote!
Hopefully these trends will inspire people in states that have been consistently red that a flip this election is possible!
Gee if only they could think about how their vote would move the Overton window.
But you just said, they rely on their feeeeelllliinngggs. Guess they aren’t so logical huh.
If “we will vote for you if you give us what we want and not if you don’t” doesn’t move elected officials left, with them preferring to lose, then “we will vote for you even if you don’t give us what we want” DEFINITELY wouldn’t move them left.
Ok you’re today’s explanation.
Let’s evaluate the last say 24 years and when the Dems had all 3 of the House of Representatives, Senate, and Presidency. They need all 3 to pass pretty much anything.
Obama had it for 2 out of 8 years. Biden had it for 2 out of 4 years. Let’s add it: That means Dems had control for 4 out of 24 years. Read that again: Dems had control for 4 years of the last 24 years. For filibuster proof control, Dems had control for 4 MONTHS of the last 24 years.
This is why Dems compromise and why they go after the center voter, because they basically never have control. To get literally anything done they need to compromise. Take your pick, either 4 years of the last 24 fucking years, or the 4 months or the last 24 years. And you wonder why they go to the center to find voters?
If you want things to go to the left, you have to give Dems overwhelming and consistent victories. Because when they lose, like how they’ve lost for 20 years out of the last 24 years, they go to the center to find voters.
A Mexican standoff will not work because they have an out (the center voter who shows up) and the leftist voter doesn’t. So the way the leftist voter gradually gets them to move left is by ensuring that the Dems win consistently and overwhelmingly, so that they don’t have to go to the center to find voters.
Of course the left doesn’t get out to vote when the Dems give nothing to vote for.
Why do they go center instead of left when looking for votes? As you just said yourself, they’ve done it for decades and as a result only had control for 4 out of the last 28 years…maybe they could switch that strategy?
(Edit)Why do leftists need to move right to somehow move things left instead? Seems like that will just move things right even more and then the Dems will justify moving even more right themselves still calling the compromising leftists radical…
Ok let’s go through this chronologically.
Bill Clinton: After successive losses Bill figured out “it’s the economy stupid”. And when you run against an incumbent (Bush senior) you run from the center. So that’s what he did. And he won.
Gore: After the population hopefully warmed up with Bill Clinton, he stuck his head out left with climate change. And bam he lost the election. Thanks 3rd party protest voters! Aka the left never shows up.
Obama: So guess what Obama learned? Don’t stick your head out. He ran on vague “hope”, hoping the ambiguity would be enough considering Bush’s disastrous wars. And he won.
More on Obama: so he enacted ACA. That’s great, right? The thanks Obama got for that was to lose the house of representatives for year 3 and 4. Then lost the House of reps again for years 5 and 6. Then he lost both the House of reps and the Senate for years 7 and 8. Thanks voters that can’t be assed to show up after the first election! Aka: the left never shows up.
Hillary Clinton: So what did Hilary learn from the last 6 years of Obama? She learned that the left never shows up. So she ran a mostly center platform, with a nod to left on climate change (that thing all the leftists care about right?). And guess what happened? Bam she lost. Thanks protest non-voters! Aka: the left never shows up.
On to Biden. Just like Obama learned from Gore, Biden learned from Hillary that you don’t stick your head out left. And he was running against an incumbent, so once again when you do that you run center. He’s actually been governing more from the left, but he ran center.
And people are amazed that they don’t run a big left platform? Every time they stick their head left they lose. And the next guy learns to go to the center to win.
So how do you get them to move left? By giving them victories first. Consistent and overwhelming victories. Because when they lose, like they’ve lost 20 years out of the last 24 years, they will go to the center to find votes.
With this history, you’d be an absolute fool to cater to the left. Because they never show up.
They don’t need to move right. They need to show up and give dems consistent and overwhelming victories first. Show the dems that they can win without having to go further and further to the center. Because every time the dems lose, because the left never shows up, they will go to the center to find voters. Voters which BTW actually do show up!
Center voters are worth double, because it’s a vote you get and vote the other party loses. They aren’t going to cater to the left (worth half the vote) when history shows time and time again that they never show up.
Kamala’s groundswell of support is proof that listening, not demanding, generates enthusiasm. You choose not to pay attention because you don’t want the party moving to the left, regardless of what they could gain by doing so.
Is her groundswell of support coming from the left, or from the center? It’s from the center, who yes rely on impression and feelings and energy.
I’m talking about this supposed logical leftist voter, who thinks logically, because they are so logical, and they will logically not vote in protest, and you are saying this supposed logical left actually relies on feeeelllinngss, then they are not so fucking logical then are they?
Who said I don’t want the party to move left? Nice (fake) jab.
Politics isn’t a logical endeavor. All political positions are based on assumptions that are feelings based. Conservatives feel that hierarchy is important, leftest value equality.
Nobody prefers equality over hierarchy because they did the homework.
A person who wanted to make all of their decisions based on logic and reason would be paralyzed and incompetent.
I’m sure you can provide a source for that, since you’re not just saying whatever you think justifies moving to the right.
Where did I say that? Everyone likes having their concerns addressed, and being ignored inspires apathy. I’m not sure why the party understands this about the Republicans they keep trying to court but not their own left flank.
I did.
Can you source that “you think justifies moving to the right.”? Someone here certainly is making things up and it’s you.
So far has she announced something like medicare for all that the leftists can point to as a policy to logically support? No. So far she’s relying very heavily on energy, vibes, “won’t go back” emotion, freedom, which all appeals to center voters who rely on impressions and emotion. The closest to any specific progressive policy is a general idea to tax billionaires.
“excited to vote” is an emotional feeeelllliiiinnggg. You didn’t default to say policy to support, you defaulted to the feeling of emotion of excitement and it’s very telling. Enthusiasm is an emotional feeellliinnggg. And you’re basically on it again, apathy is an emotional feeellllliiinnngg.
If that’s what these supposed logical leftist voters need to feed their feeelllinnngs, then fine. But then it’s not this case of them being so logical, and they are logically not voting, because logically that will do something (in reality nothing), because they are the embodiment of logic.
Yeah, you. Not me. You. You’re making shit up. All the time just so you have something to attack.
This ain’t a source.
Sure is. Turns out, the left is comprised of humans with feelings. I don’t know why you keep trying to mock something I haven’t said.
I don’t know where you got this notion that the left considers themselves a bunch of fucking Vulcans. No one likes being shouted at. No one likes having their concerns ignored and belittled. If you want to address voter apathy, you address the concerns of those whose votes you want. Not demand decades of fruitless fealty with some nebulous hint that one day the party might think about considering their concerns. The party gets this about Republicans, but doesn’t get that Republicans already have a party that listens to them and does so with some level of credibility. The left doesn’t have that.
Tell me again how I’ve been arguing all this time that leftists are soooooo logical and have no use for feeeeeeeelllllinnngggs.
If the supposed logical left voter actually relies on feelings to vote, then they shouldn’t portray that their non-voting or protest voting is logical, or sensible, or rational, or intelligent in any way. Or effective for that matter.
You really are back to feelings too.
Again, I’m talking: “If all these leftists that don’t vote in protest”, and trying to keep it to the broad they. (I do however address you specifically when you keep trying to jab me specifically). I remember you, you’re the person that thinks everything is pointed specifically and directly and individually at you the individual person and user. The lesson you should learn this time is that not everything in life is aimed at you specifically.
I was talking about broad groups and trying to keep it to “they”, but you seem to take that extremely personally and you respond personally. And then when I discuss it broadly like I was originally, you then demand “tell me how I’ve been …”. Notice that? You take broad things very personally, then demand how you specifically argued that. It’s quite an odd trick to say the least. Especially when you entered my reply to someone else. Again, The lesson you should learn this time is that not everything in life is aimed at you specifically.
Hopefully that will suffice to end our conversation this time.
Supposed by whom?