like i get it, the propaganda machine is strong, but after the draft for roe v wade being overturned i just don’t see what would compel someone to support the democrats and keep voting blue. they’ve had decades upon decades to codify it (they could’ve recently, they control everything right now and they also had a supermajority when obama was first elected) like they’ve done very, very little to show they actually care about women’s rights (and everyone’s really) it’s insane. even now, biden could pack the courts or biden could end the filibuster so they could codify it now and do some jurisdiction stripping so the supreme court can’t rule it unconstitutional. and idk how the fact they aren’t isn’t disillusioning for the average democrat voter, it seems the message they’re taking away is that this is trump’s fault for appointing that one judge and they need to :vote: harder.
it’s mind boggling but it’s also just so incredibly sad, idk what it will take to show them that these people don’t care about them
One, modern Democratic partisans can't conceive of political organizing and cadre-building in the same way Republicans can. Literally, these people believe voting, occasionally attending protests, and writing your Congressman is the ceiling of political participation. And actually Democratic party cadres are perfectly content keeping it that way because they are chiefly focused on national-level positions for the purposes of resume-building, and the Democratic Party model us to demobilize its voter base outside of election season. They actively despise the activist wing of their own party for making them look bad on camera and on the internet.
Secondly, admitting what's really wrong with the country and the party would require them to look inward and acknowledge that the party affiliation around which they've based their identity isn't as virtuous as they'd like to believe. But the whole basis of Democrat partisan identity is performstive virtue - you're a Democrat because you recognize some of the problems in society, and that the Democratic Party is the only party trying to fix them, and that makes you a better person than a Republican. When prophecy fails, its much easier to double down on your dogma than to confront an existential identity crisis.
Its a cognitohazard to browse it regularly but /r/neoliberal really is a decent cross-section if the partisan Democrat mindset.
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