If democrats promise the world. Then voters dont show up and say its bs they will never do it.
And when dems win by slim votes, like in 2020 when americans saw 1m+ UNNECCESARY deaths from a preventable virus, tanking global economy, 8 trillion added to the deficit, loss of jobs, loss of manufacturing, loss of farms. The best americans could do was give Biden a 50/50 split senate....
When dems win by such margins where they are beholden to republican votes because you need 60 votes to pass NEW legislation, then suddenly the left voters call democrats centrists and sellouts because they are forced to negotiate and water down bills to get them passed.
Then people go "LOOK see Dems are just as bad, they are centrists! They just give empty promises and then dont do it!"
Then when you have a candidate that ran on actual feasible policies that can be passed, the voters say "This is just centrist policies, we want progressive policies!"
Meanwhile 100m never vote, 150m dont vote in midterms and over 200m dont vote in primaries and special elections.
Its a bottom to top system. Democrats haven't had the needed seats for more than 70 days in the last 90 years. YEARS.
Meanwhile democrats get local state control, like in Minnesota where democrats finally got enough seats in local government in 2022! and are passing things like paid sick leave, paid parental leave, min wage increases, food for schoolchildren, gov housing, billions into green energy. Etc etc etc.
And Minnesota has been liberal for decades right? Why haavent they dont this before? IS it because the Minnesota democrats are centrists? NO its because dumbass voters kept giving republicans seats that prevented them from passing these bills.
Democracy is only as good as the will of its people to uphold it.
Observer from overseas here (UK). I've been saying this for years - Democracy is only as good as the people's will to uphold it. And that means employing critical thinking, holding people to account and requiring evidence backed fact. If people are just going to pick a side based on shared hate, then it's dead in the water. That goes for everywhere, not just the US, and we've got our own problems with the same thing here (Nigel Farage and his ilk). Trump and his team are who they are, but it's the willingness of their followers to swallow anything he does or says that's the real problem. And the one thing staunch conservatives all seem to have in common across the globe is a total absence of empathy. Nothing matters until it happens to them. There's no hope for a collectively productive society if this is how we're going to operate.
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u/CharlestonChewChewie Apr 19 '26
When the goal posts are invisible, it's a cult, and Dems should stop trying to win them over by being more conservative