After Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and finally the Kamala Harris debacle I think the Democrats have proven beyond a shadow of doubt that they need a total reboot before there is any kind of unconditional support like, "vote blue". Even if you don't believe they are in on this with the Republicans the best case scenario is political malpractice, criminal negligence. They won't even run on policies that are popular with their base for fucks sake; how can you even be more angry with the nonvoters than the Democratic party itself?

Rationally wouldn't it be easier to petition a few thousand elected Democrats to run on an actually palatable platform than convince millions of apathetic voters to vote for something they don't believe in?

[–] mattyroses@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 6 days ago

American liberalism is secular Calvinism - there is no need to actually do anything, as this world is unchangeable. The point of politics is to show that you are of the more graced population. And that can be measured by how you support the Democratic party.

And like all the religious, they hate the apostate far more than the infidel.

[–] lil_tank@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

Both reps and dems are losing support, but that won't change anything because even a catastrophic 20% turnover wouldn't threaten the power in place if there isn't an organised revolutionary movement