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And that's cool...
As long as when people want her to align more closely with the Dem voting base, you don't yell at them for questioning the only option and imply they're trying to help trump.
That bullshit only depresses Dem turnout and actually helps trump.
It's just completely nonsensical to hear all the "moderates" claim they'd vote for anyone not trump, then go feral when someone points out banning fracking would hand the Dems Pennsylvania which trump needs to win the election.
There are multiple issues like that where if Kamala moved to the left she'd lock this election down.
If you truly only care about beating trump, your time online would be more productive trying to pull the party left than trying to pull tens of millions of voters to the right...
With the obvious benefit of getting those popular policies on top of beating trump.
If it's not been posted already...
https://theintercept.com/2024/09/10/polls-arms-embargo-israel-weapons-gaza/
Banning sales of arms to Israel would not only attract a huge proportion of otherwise reluctant leftists, but might even steal votes from Trump as a small but not insignificant number of voters have been fooled by his 'started no wars' con. The idea that doing so would lose some key demographic is clearly not supported by the data.
But the Democratic strategists are not idiots. They must know this. So one of two things is the case; the polling is wrong, or the Democrats have absolutely no desire to move leftward on this and are willing to risk a Trump win to hold out on their position.
We can rule out the first because if the Democrats had better poll data they'd share it. Nothing to lose by doing so.
So we're left with the second.
Odd then that the online vitriol is delivered not to the Democrats for cynically risking a Trump victory, but to leftists for being opposed to genocide.
They wouldn't lose significant voters, theyd lose a bunch of donations...
It doesn't cost a billion plus to beat donald trump, but the more money there is, the bigger everyone's slice is and the bigger the bonuses for personally bringing more money is.
The DNC isn't being run to get Dems in office, it's a fucking grift where sometimes we do get a Dem in office.
Just never one who's political policy matches Dem voters.
Look at current DNC leadership, it's not people that know how to win elections, it's just whoever can bring in the most donations.
The result is ridiculously expensive and incompetent campaigns. The solution is clearing house at the DNC.
True. And a cushy consulting job, or a few thousand in bonuses seems like an understandable inventive, if a misanthropic one.
But for those who do the footwork supporting such a system, I just cannot see why. What have the Democrats done to deserve such blind obedience? Is being not-Trump just that impressive these days?
Today? Yes. Come inauguration day? Absolutely fucking not. If Kamala wins I'll talk shit, write letters, donate to causes, protest, and cause trouble from the first day she's in office until the end of primary season 4 years from now. Then I'm back on the train.
Unless we can get rid of FPTP. Then I'm talking shit every day all fucking day long while happily voting for a candidate who agrees with me most instead of the one I disagree with the least.
Why?
Most people in America want to end sales of arms to Israel, don't want to be complicit in genocide.
And Harris is abusing her power by ignoring that to satisfy a few wealthy donors by threatening you all with Trump if you don't let her do what she wants.
The only way to stop abuse of power is to stand up to it. If you let her (or her replacements) just frighten you into submission with bogeymen you might as well give up any hope of progress.
Edit: this started out as a single word question. The diatribe came after my reply.
It's a reasonable question. Because I don't think she'll go far enough. And if she goes further than I think she will, I'll push her to go further left than that. I'm not nearly as far left as a lot of folks on Lemmy. I probably fall into Social Democrat on a good day. But that puts me further left than most US politics and pretty much all the politics in my home state.
I'm a pragmatist when it comes to elections. She's good enough to where I don't think she'll sponsor hunting parties for LGBTQ+ folks but I don't think she'll be trying very fucking hard to get universal healthcare or working with states to try to get rid of FPTP.
Unless your question is why I won't do it after primary season. That's because we don't fight in front of the kids. I'm going to support the furthest left feasible candidate because, again, pragmatic. I'll shut my fucking mouth, back the least fascist, and start trying to affect change again the second I can without shitting on that candidate during election season. Plus I like to take a break between election day and inauguration day because it's all so mentally exhausting and I'll be drinking more than usual for the holidays.
Sorry, I thought you were here asking a reasonable question with my other reply. If I had known you were like this I wouldn't have bothered. Is that why you replied with a single word then edited it instead of spewing your tripe initially?
If "Israel should finish the job" Trump tickles your butthole, just say so.
Yep. So when you thought I was going to play the part of the meek little student at their teacher's knee you were happy to respond, but as soon as it was clear I might actually disagree... Instantly I must be a Trump supporter, because literally the only option you can think of that isn't agreeing with you entirely is 'Trump'.
It's pathetic.
No, you fucking numpty. I thought you were genuinely curious. Understanding someone's motivations doesn't require you to be a good little student, it just requires you to be curious. People ask questions in good faith every day. You weren't curious. Then you were duplicitous about it and try to use gotcha tactics. You made sure to ask then edit after I replied so that it looked like I was engaging with a fucking moron instead of a good faith commenter.
Those are the tactics of the right. Even if you don't support Trump out loud your actions absolutely do. Go ahead and block me because any time I notice you engaging with my comments I'll go ahead and call you a duplicitous fucknugget. That's more engagement than you deserve, but I'll give you that much, you duplicitous fucknugget.