Spent last night arguing with my liberal friends about Dems failing to pass min wage. Argued from the center left. Said Dem leadership needs to get its shit together and start getting the party in line. Otherwise theyre getting bodied in 2022 and never getting back in. They flipped out on me. Saying I was advocating for them to be just like Trump and the republicans.
Ive genuinely given up on them. I just dont get it. I dont know what to do. We're all queer and disabled. One of them constantly goes to protests and participates in her community. This wasn't even one of my hard left points. Like how the Dems are all psychos. Or the entire system is rigged. It was a genuine good faith argument about how the Dems need to change or we're gonna die. Im at a loss. How can you fix this?
Bernie leaned hard on this approach and the results were underwhelming. I'm not convinced we should rely on it going forward. Some people really do just want to grill, or are so alienated from politics that they're never going to reliably do even minimal things like voting, or will talk your ear off about politics but never actually participate in anything.
The people most likely to be politically active are the ones who are already politically active. There are plenty of unenthusiastic Democrats out there who can be radicalized -- most people here are radicalized libs -- and we'll have more luck focusing on them.