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I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2025
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Exactly. The reason that democrats think republicans "fall in line" is because they see all these shitty politicians on the right, but they don't realize that they're looking at completely different things from republicans. You can be a total fucking dirtbag, hypocrite, completely incompetent, but as long as you bend the knee to the causes they care about, they don't give a shit. Their standards are all about ideological purity, not character or competence. By contrast, democrats get outraged about any attempt at "purity testing," and would rather have someone "competent," which generally means, "willing to compromise to get things done." Meanwhile republican politicians are always worried that if they work with democrats at all, they'll be outflanked from the right. As a result, the country moves further and further to the right.
That's where crazy extremists like me think we should actually pay attention when the other side's tactics work and learn from them. But I probably shouldn't admit that or I'll be hit with "horseshoe theory" 🙄
You know I think maybe this resolves me that more people should just, run for political office, or maybe, resolves me that the dirtbag left is a concept which could probably be measured with some sort of success. You're probably right, the left needs to learn that people would probably vote for any stupid piece of shit with no sense of decorum, as long as that guy gave them healthcare. No sense of decorum actually might be an advantage, even, because then there's nothing left to rhetorically attack you with. That's sort of the whole, like, john fetterman-phenomena. Too bad he turned into an actual piece of shit instead of just being a guy that dresses in a hoodie.
People follow decorum because they don't want to be pieces of shit. So those that don't are likely to turn out to be pieces of shit. Not "alternative" good guys.