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courtship rituals (quokk.au)

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[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

The left wants to squeeze the rich until money comes out. Centrist republicans don't.

That's why those controlling the Democratic party will not save us. The left needs to take it from them.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

The pneumatic press is this century's guillotine.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I wish the Democrats had the balls to use that messaging. Instead, it's us leftists trying to convince the radical centrists like Cassandra of Troy.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 17 minutes ago* (last edited 16 minutes ago)

Not so much anymore. It's pretty clear this is what they want.

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 17 points 3 hours ago

PugJesus in a nutshell

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

There's no different between appealing to far-right issues, and popularising far-right issues.

Ultimately all of politics is about what you're popularising. There are only the issues.

[–] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Fascism it is I guess. I wish things could be different, but the liberals didn't want to compromise. Oh well.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 minutes ago

Well no. Compromising with the left risks communism. Letting the right get everything they want; that's just fine.

[+] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net -20 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (4 children)

I get it's upsetting but there are just objectively way more republicans than there are leftists in the US. So there is logic here.

Also, vote switchers count for double. So there would actually need to be twice as many possible voters on the left for it to be as appealing as the right.

As always the proper solution is to alter the conditions that incentivize this behavior.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 47 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yet time and time again, polling shows that Americans prefer leftist policies when presented with them independently of party affiliation. As well as younger generations trending further left.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

time and time again, polling shows that Americans prefer leftist policies when presented with them independently of party affiliation

So where are all the leftist voters then?

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 23 points 3 hours ago

Winning a lot of elections that way?

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 20 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I think Harris’s failure should be the clue that this isn’t right. You’re not going to win by courting conservatives

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

Biden over there having got more votes than anyone in history like

Either we are saying Biden went farther left, or is a direct conflict to this statement

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

2020 was unprecedented. You can’t compare that to anything.

[–] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Who got the second most votes in history? I'll give you a hint, it was his opponent. That's how fucked the US is.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 hours ago

I think that had more to do with COVID and Trump, but who knows. Anyway, 4 years later they lost.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 15 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Biden went left. This is just objectively true. He literally just adopted the progressive policy positions his opponents had in exchange for them becoming surrogates.

Harris went right. And she lost.

Now Biden didn't govern to the left. And that also clearly hurt him/ Kamala in 2024. But he objectively campaigned to court progressives.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 hours ago

Please tell me how Biden went left? He clicked resume on the shit from Obamas presidency.

Biden went left of Trump, that's all. Which Harris was left of as well.

Is there any actual examples of Harris going right of Biden?

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 1 points 2 hours ago

There are not more republicans. What there are are checked out non voters and a “left” that had so much splintered infighting no one really knows what the left is.

There is also a swath of single issue voters who vote on guns. They actually would flip in a heartbeat with a liberal gun owner platform. It’s not a new phenomenon.