The Spectre@lemmy.ml to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 14 hours agoStop Overreacting!lemmy.mlimagemessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up1627arrow-down130file-textcross-posted to: politicalmemes@lemmy.worldcomics@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1597arrow-down1imageStop Overreacting!lemmy.mlThe Spectre@lemmy.ml to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 14 hours agomessage-square29fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: politicalmemes@lemmy.worldcomics@lemmy.ml
minus-squareperegrin5@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down19·11 hours agoThat’s because blue moderates are far more highly palatable to the majority of Americans than hard leftists. The hard thing to confront is that despite how it feels on Lemmy you guys aren’t a voting bloc worth pursuing.
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·10 hours agoThe moderate Dem voters would have still turned out for Sanders in the general. Fuck this timeline and fuck the defenders of those who put us on it.
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·8 hours agoReally? So the reason they tried to start a national movement to vote Republican when it was Obama… That wasn’t the progressive policy he was campaigning on? I thought that’s what it was, if not, why do you think a bunch of boomer “moderates” just could stomach voting for Barrak Obama? What charestic besides policy stances do you think made them go Republican, assuming you’re right they’d have voted for Bernie. The truth is, if Bernie was the candidate we wouldn’t have needed them, just like we didn’t need them for Obama
minus-squareKeeponstalin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·10 hours agoNot on policy Polls on policy Democrats’ Working-Class Failures, Analysis Finds, Are ‘Why Trump Beat Harris’ 2024 Post-Election Report: A retrospective and longitudinal data analysis on why Trump beat Harris How Trump and Harris Voters See America’s Role in the World Majority of Americans support progressive policies such as higher minimum wage, free college Democrats should run on the popular progressive ideas, but not the unpopular ones Here Are 7 ‘Left Wing’ Ideas (Almost) All Americans Can Get Behind Finding common ground: 109 national policy proposals with bipartisan support Progressive Policies Are Popular Policies Tim Walz’s Progressive Policies Popular With Republicans in Swing States
That’s because blue moderates are far more highly palatable to the majority of Americans than hard leftists. The hard thing to confront is that despite how it feels on Lemmy you guys aren’t a voting bloc worth pursuing.
The moderate Dem voters would have still turned out for Sanders in the general. Fuck this timeline and fuck the defenders of those who put us on it.
Really?
So the reason they tried to start a national movement to vote Republican when it was Obama…
That wasn’t the progressive policy he was campaigning on?
I thought that’s what it was, if not, why do you think a bunch of boomer “moderates” just could stomach voting for Barrak Obama?
What charestic besides policy stances do you think made them go Republican, assuming you’re right they’d have voted for Bernie.
The truth is, if Bernie was the candidate we wouldn’t have needed them, just like we didn’t need them for Obama
Not on policy
Polls on policy
Democrats’ Working-Class Failures, Analysis Finds, Are ‘Why Trump Beat Harris’
2024 Post-Election Report: A retrospective and longitudinal data analysis on why Trump beat Harris
How Trump and Harris Voters See America’s Role in the World
Majority of Americans support progressive policies such as higher minimum wage, free college
Democrats should run on the popular progressive ideas, but not the unpopular ones
Here Are 7 ‘Left Wing’ Ideas (Almost) All Americans Can Get Behind
Finding common ground: 109 national policy proposals with bipartisan support
Progressive Policies Are Popular Policies
Tim Walz’s Progressive Policies Popular With Republicans in Swing States