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The curse of the big tent. You accept conservative democrats who will break from the party sometimes or get a conservative Republican who will be a rubber stamp for Trump on everything.
I wish American politics were different, but here we are. If you want to change things then organize with your community, go down to your local Democratic party headquarters, and coopt their infrastructure from the ground up.
Or tell people to vote 3rd party (Any third party, it doesn't matter!) and then whine online that suppressing votes for Democrats didn't fix things, I can't tell you what to do.
"For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs of Philadelphia. And you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin” -Chuck Schumer 2016
Man you're right, don't vote for a Democrat, stay home.
Let’s just not bullshit each other about why the Democratic Party exists
It exists because we have a shitty democracy in the United States that relies on the electoral college and first past the post voting.
It's also an organization comprised of thousands of local offices that you can go to today and start influencing. It won't be easy and it won't be immediate, but life is unfair and we have to fight to unfuck the mistakes of all our ancestors if we want to build a better world.
Until we get a better democracy "don't vote for a Democrat" only helps the fascists.
Until we get better democrats, they'll keep losing and you'll keep acting like every last criticism of even the vilest behavior is telling people not to vote.
I never said anything about who to vote for, but we all know the Democratic Party is a private institution that is not obligated to follow the will of its constituents. Just look at national public policy polling and where the party diverges. Look at how the party leaders ignore and work against massively popular progressive candidates like Graham Platner, Ilhan Omar, Abdul El-Sayed, Zohran Mamdani, etc.
Do you honestly think they want to “win”?
The Democratic Party exists as a honeypot to attract and neutralize progressive policies and politicians, and to ensure that the Overton Window of American politics never moves left. They are a right-wing party that runs cover for republicans. They don’t agree with you, they want to stop you.
Trans people aren't welcome in your tent. They upset the fascists you're trying to impress.
BlueMaga scum are every bit as loathsome and deplorable as the regular kind, holy shit
Got under your skin by saying that your only policy is bad, huh?
You will abandon any constituency not named netanyahu.
It's unfortunate that you demand solidarity while simping for bigots like these 8.
The solution is easy. Offer progressive policies. The most transphobic piece of shit still wants healthcare. If offered universal healthcare, their opinion will be along the lines of, "yeah, I don't like them trans people, but if I can afford to see my doctor then I don't give a fuck".
We see progressive policies win over folks all the time. That's why people like Bernie Sanders can go on Fox, sit in front of a live audience of Fox supporters, and get that entire audience to support him and his platform by offering healthcare or affordable housing or any other progressive policy.
Establishment Dems know this but refuse to support progressive policies because then they'd actually have to do something beyond using the Republicans to scaremonger. If establishment Dems would just listen to their constiuents, we wouldn't be in this mess. A majority of the blame lies at the feet of the Democratic Party.
You can just say what you mean about trans people without ascribing it to one of the bigots you admire.
If the world truly worked this way, then the Trump administration's disparagment of the new Iranian Ayatollah being gay would work. Nobody gives a fuck if the new Ayatollah is gay because gas prices are ballooning out of control. The Right Wingers are trying everything to pin high gas prices on Iran, but people aren't eating the shit they are serving. Sure there are a few crazies out there saying, "High gas prices are worth it to defeat the gay communist muslim terrorists", but those people are a minority who do not need to be catered to.
You should not cater to the worst dregs of our society because they are an inconsequential miniscule outlier. Sure, the transphobe might claim that they hate trans kids getting healthcare, but they'll still go to the hospital and get treatment when they fall ill, just like those vaccine conspiracy nuts who died of covid in the hospitals. Trying to appease them is stupid, especially when it costs you the majority as it did with Kamala Harris.