As opposed to letting the Democrats put their finger on the scale by letting them in office to amplify the inequalities we have now. As it stands, you offer the Democratic party absolutely no reason to offer progressive policies, because they don’t need to appeal to the leftist demographic at all.
Thanks to your strategic voting, the best strategy for the Democrats is to be just left of the republicans. The further right the republicans go, the further right the Democrats need to go to pull votes from the other side, because they can already count on your vote. Who cares if a politician voted to protect ICE, as long as they have a D next to their name?
In 2038, when the Democrat candidate is even more rightwing than Trump is now, are you going to earnestly argue in favor of voting for them because their opponent is even worse? Don’t you want to avoid an eventuality where you end up fighting for a rightwing president? Don’t let the Democrats treat your vote as a given.
What you’re not getting is this,
Democrats dont’ cater to leftists, because leftists generally don’t vote. They don’t need to apeal to your vote, becasue you already don’t vote for them.
If leftists got organized and became an actual voting block (the same way the religous right is, for example) then Democrats would be forced to apeal to them. But leftists by and by don’t vote. They’ll do other things like go to protests, but they won’t go to the polls.
That’s how voting works, your’e not asking the politican to do something, you’re telling them to do it. And if they don’t do it, you vote in someone else. The insane tea-party maga crazies understand this much, it astounds me that leftists in this county don’t do the same.
As opposed to letting the Democrats put their finger on the scale by letting them in office to amplify the inequalities we have now. As it stands, you offer the Democratic party absolutely no reason to offer progressive policies, because they don’t need to appeal to the leftist demographic at all.
Thanks to your strategic voting, the best strategy for the Democrats is to be just left of the republicans. The further right the republicans go, the further right the Democrats need to go to pull votes from the other side, because they can already count on your vote. Who cares if a politician voted to protect ICE, as long as they have a D next to their name?
In 2038, when the Democrat candidate is even more rightwing than Trump is now, are you going to earnestly argue in favor of voting for them because their opponent is even worse? Don’t you want to avoid an eventuality where you end up fighting for a rightwing president? Don’t let the Democrats treat your vote as a given.
What you’re not getting is this,
Democrats dont’ cater to leftists, because leftists generally don’t vote. They don’t need to apeal to your vote, becasue you already don’t vote for them.
If leftists got organized and became an actual voting block (the same way the religous right is, for example) then Democrats would be forced to apeal to them. But leftists by and by don’t vote. They’ll do other things like go to protests, but they won’t go to the polls.
That’s how voting works, your’e not asking the politican to do something, you’re telling them to do it. And if they don’t do it, you vote in someone else. The insane tea-party maga crazies understand this much, it astounds me that leftists in this county don’t do the same.