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Yes, remember when blue team was kidnapping people, trafficking them to foreign blacksites and refusing the return them even when proven wrong? Remember when they removed elected officials from government briefings by force? Remember when democrats organised a military parade for the dear leader's birthday?
Im Canadian, i can’t count how many times it feels like we’ve held our nose and voted for a liberal we didn’t love, to stop a right wing nut job from being elected. I think that’s one thing I resent about my American friends right now, they couldn’t just oppose trump. This was not the election to take that stand, especially when you take a stand based on what’s going on in other countries as opposed to what’s festering in your own. You want change in the democrats, well get in there at the bottom level from school boards to local government to primaries, you can’t change it from the top. You have to do it before the federal election.
At least you have more than two options. We literally cannot vote against anything that two political parties agree on. What's more, anti-establishment forces like Bernie Sanders and AOC are either sidelined or used to redirect voter dissatisfaction into votes for establishment candidates. So while I agree with the need to effect change locally, its doubtful that we can enact meaningful change at the federal level.
It both parties agree on an issue then why make it an election deciding issue? You won’t get anywhere. You deal with that in primaries or after you’ve elected a person who cares what voters think, unlike trump. Everyone here complains but how many people here are actually registered as democrats and taking part in voting for and assisting people like AOC get on the ballot? You can’t expect change if you’re not out there volunteering and helping the party change, you won’t change it from the outside.
You can’t complain during the federal election about things that should have been dealt with before that point. Also it’s wild to me and everyone outside the US that even now after everything, people are still insisting that Harris and Trump are the same, that’s just beyond comprehension.
Nobody "makes" it an "election deciding issue" - those are simply issues that are important to a large portion of the electorate.
If both parties refuse to address it, then those people who care a lot about it are less likely to vote, period, and the more of those issues stack, the less likely they are to vote. It's infuriating listening to libs whinge about non voters, because they simply do not understand how much apathy their own party is creating.
Just look at the current party approval ratings and tell me that it matters to anyone that the Republicans are 'objectively' worse.
Fact is that when the left became team America world police. They think they own the Middle East. I guess it’s easier I criticize and go after a country and conflict across the planet, than it is to fix your own dumpster fire of a country.
I don't even know who or what issue you're specifically referring to, but it doesn't mean anything to moralize about the issues voters are responding to. It doesn't even really matter what specific issue that does it - if voters lose faith in democracy serving their interests, they just aren't going to bother working within that system. They'll either become completely apathetic or become radicalized against it.
This is what a failure of democracy looks like - not a military coup or an armed rebellion, but a slow, gangrenous rotting of trust in democratic institutions.
Vote in primaries, find and fundraise better candidates, and so on. It's not going to do much in the short term, but parties have major platform changes every generation.
I think people would do well to let go of the idea that the parties as a whole have an ideology. George W. Bush and Donald Trump are not remotely the same. Bernie and Manchin are not the same.
Yes there's a good bit of overlap in the venn diagram of their supporters, but MAGA was functionally a hostile takeover of the GOP. The old guard was made to get on board or find a new job.
If Bernie had been elected in 2016 the outcome for the DNC would likely have been just as dramatic. If you want the Democratic party to be a leftist party, go make it one. We've literally seen a major party pushed to fascism. You know know change is possible.
The enduring ideology of the political establishment is the promotion and protection of the ruling class' interests--invariably at the expense of the working class. Both parties serve the same master, and because there are only two, the voters don't have much say in the matter. Progressives, like Bernie, who call out the billionaire donors are the exception to the rule. (More on him later.)
Seen from the leftist perspective, the overlap in the Venn Diagram is a consistent commitment from our politicians to put profits over people. It is why both George Bush and Barack Obama bailed out Wall Street (to give just one example of corporate welfare). It is why SCOTUS declared corporations "people" and campaign donations "free speech". It's why the U.S. has engaged in neo-imperialism over the land, labour, natural resources, and markets of developing nations. It's why the CIA assassinated democratically elected leaders in South America and Asia. It's why we've had decades of stock market growth while wages continue to stagnate. This is not accidental: the system is working as intended.
If Bernie had been elected in 2016 the outcome for the DNC would likely have been just as dramatic. If you want the Democratic party to be a leftist party, go make it one. We’ve literally seen a major party pushed to fascism. You know know change is possible.
I wrote this in another comment but I'll reiterate here. Bernie did not get a fair chance at the presidency. The DNC limited the number of debates (not allowing their favourite to be taken to task), they gave Hillary debate questions ahead of time, gave Trump/Clinton all the media coverage, etc. It is damn near impossible to succeed as a third-party candidate (sorry, Jill Stein) so a self-proclaimed socialist has to run as a Democrat and play by their rule book. And they don't even have to play by their own rules! (Court Concedes DNC Had the Right to Rig Primaries Against Sanders.) When AOC runs, they'll do the same thing and then she will spend her time in Congress backing establishment democrats. Please realize that the political elite would much rather shift to the right than to the left. The far left-wing actually threatens the profits of the wealthy.
While the RNC is not nearly as rigged as the DNC, They absolutely stacked the deck against Trump in 2016.
Mega donors poured money into his opposition throughout the primary. Hit pieces ran left and right. There was a "Never Trump" movement on the right during the general. He was staunchly opposed by some of the biggest names in right-wing media (Glen Beck and Mark Levin).
But he won anyway.
The left may never get a fair shake but it is incumbent upon us to win anyway. If you put a true leftist economic populist in the White House for just one term you will see dramatic change across the political landscape. But no one's just going to give it to you.
It took decades of planning and learning hard lessons to truly turn this country fascist. If right-wing extremists had thrown in the towel when Barry Goldwater got washed we wouldn't have Trump today.
Lets say i'm a right wing Millionaire. One of the ways i would have to win is to go to left leaning places and tell them "your vote does not count, and they are the same either way, stay home".
