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    2 hours ago

    It’s that people don’t vote

    Yes but also no: it’s mostly that many people either CAN’T vote or can but only with extreme exercise of patience and stamina.

    Get rid of all the ridiculous voter suppression obstacles and you’ll see a dramatic uptick in voting and a corresponding shift towards Dems winning almost every election, making the GOP unviable within a decade.

    Neither major party wants that, though, since the Dem leadership counts on running on fear of Republicans so that they won’t have to go further left than the owner donors are comfortable with.









  • Do they have billboards saying “reluctantly voting Harris out of necessity”?

    They should. The overwhelming majority of Biden voters voted against Trump more than for Biden and I’d bet the farm that, while probably to a significantly lesser degree, Harris is going to win in the same way.

    The Dem leadership hasn’t updated the pillars of their electoral and policymaking strategy since 1992 and it really shows.

    Even when Harris or Walz say something truly based that gets the Left hopeful for real change in the right direction (which has happened a few times), some apparatchik always takes pains to point out that it’s “not part of the platform” 😮‍💨