When is the last time when Dems didn't plan to win on the "the GOP sucks, so what else are you going to do but vote for us!?" platform?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/pressures-mounting-biden-thinks-gop-will-make-midterm-case-rcna36514

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Democrats are now completely paralyzed by a contradiction. Their donors absolutely will not let them do good things for their voters (ostensibly the working class). But by not doing anything for the working class they are completely eroding their base of support. They can have money or votes, but not both.

    Also why the Democratic Party is going so hard after middle-class white libs. They like those voters because they don't demand them to do actual good things that improve the lives of the working class.

    • Runcible [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      This is also why they try so hard to act like there is a large contingent of voters who represent the average of the "extreme" positions instead of them being people with wildly inconsistent (but still extreme in regards to the Democratic Moderate) positions across the spectrum

    • HauntedBySpectacle [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      middle-class white libs also are the kind of people to donate their own money, regularly even, to political campaigns. And in the end, that's Bernie Sander's biggest legacy as a politician. Normalizing and massively increasing the volume of mass, individual donations from people who otherwise would never be donors. They adopted that method completely since 2016, just without the no billionaire money part of course. I'm sure it existed much earlier, but it was never in scope like it is now.

      People used to say here and on the old sub sometimes that they learned nothing from his campaign, but that's not true, they learned a very important method in keeping their party alive with fucking tribute, not just votes, from their shrinking support base.