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[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lol okay. You make it sound like running a campaign is so easy. Maybe you should run the next one.

If you go with a full progressive or overtly leftist campaign you will also lose. You will gain votes from the "purity politics" left from people like you but you will lose the support of so much of the centrist/independent block.

43% of the US population identifies as independent. 27% identifies as Democrat. We don't have a large enough voting base to win by ourselves without independent/centrist votes. If you abandon them as well, we also lose. Conservatives can always count on their base to vote for whoever.... apparently we've learned that we can't do that with progressives. It's apparently our way or we sink the whole fucking boat with everyone in it. We apparently only vote for the PERFECT candidate, or we just won't vote at all...or vote 3rd party.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You make it sound like running a campaign is so easy.

It's not, at all. Spotting a repeated mistake IS pretty easy, though

you will lose the support of so much of the centrist/independent block

Prove it. Leftist ideas are liked by the majority of the country when asked without labels, so you're talking out your ass.

43% of the US population identifies as independent

A lot of those are leftists who don't associate with the DNC. I would know, I'm a member of a group of them who all get talk about politics. I'm literally a member of the group you're claiming wouldn't vote for a more left candidate and I'll tell you: the majority of us would

Conservatives can always count on their base to vote for whoever.... apparently we've learned that we can't do that with progressives

Progressives aren't the Democratic base, but nice try shifting the blame. Democrats are right-wing and are losing votes because of it. Look at 2024 in CA and see the millions of votes lost because they went centrist

We apparently only vote for the PERFECT candidate, or we just won't vote at all

Either troll or so stupid you're not worth engaging further on, just holy shit what a stupid reduction

[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

The last 4 Democratic Presidents have ALL been just barely left of center - Biden, Obama, Clinton, and Carter. The last true progressive we tried to run back was in '72 against Nixon and we lost so incredibly badly that people backed FAR away from trying to run a progressive candidate...go look at the results, they're pretty insane.