I do know why you find this to be such a controversial take
Its not a controversial take. Its an incredibly common, vapid, worthless, and idiotic take, and it needs to be shut down at every turn. Because your take, this exact take you are outlining: it dominated the Democratic narrative and strategy in 2024.
And most importantly: it 👉 loses👈 👉fucking 👈 👉elections 👈 .
It needs to be resisted at every fucking turn because this weevil brained take is quite literally what Democrats banked on and it handed all branches of government to fascists.
Any one for whom this is as far as their thinking is capable of taking them; they need to be ignored. Permanently.
We couldn't afford to suffer this kind of idiocy in 2024 and yet we were forced to. It need to be killed in the crib.
There isn't enough time in the world to go through and correct the factual inaccuracies in what you just wrote, let alone the strategic mistakes you are advocating for.
I’m advocating for the eligible voters who don’t vote in one or both of the primaries or the general to vote. I’m telling them to stop waiting for “the Democrats” to altruistically change track and cater to them, because “the Democrats” aren’t going to do that.
What it comes down to: You want voters to be different than they are.
They aren't. They are how they are. Meet them where they are at or lose.
If the left wing base comes out to vote. I’m arguing that they have not been coming out to vote (in the primaries, to ensure the nomination of left wing candidates), and therefore the Democrats do not target them to win the votes they don’t cast.
Who the fuck is it that you think does the actual boots-on-the ground volunteering on these campaigns? Fucking Jake Tapper viewers? You have no fucking clue how elections work and who the actual volunteers are, and it shows.
You've drank a giant bottle of getting mixed the fuck up kool-aid when it comes to cause and effect, and your entire approach to electoralism, one we've shown as a failure, depends on basically "wishing" voters to be different than they are. They arent.
I don’t believe they will.
Bro, no one, not one single soul, should care what you believe. You don't have a strategy and you are advocating to lose another cycle to fascism.
Bro, do not even fucking dare to pretend to know how I vote or how deeply involved I am in politics. I've got decades of experience on campaigns in the US.
If the Democrats continue to do what you are expressing, and thats a key fucking word, because they already tried to do what you are outlining, they will lose all future elections. There is no hope that the imaginary centrist, the actual most unreliable voter in the fucking world, is going to fix this. Democrats only shot at retaking power is to embrace their actual left wing base instead of trying to be diet Republican.
I keep having to repeat it for you. You don't know what the fuck you are talking about. We already tried your approach: Its a fucking disaster.
Remove the centrists, remove the corporatists. Kick them to the fucking curb for the worthless, and key word, unreliable pieces of shit that they are. Give the people something they actually want to fucking vote for and they will.
Democrats litterally did precisely what you've outlined here. They lost the election. The failed to engage with their voters on their voters terms.
They lost. Your approach loses. It's a losing strategy. You can't move an electorate. You can move a candidate. Expecting voters to change to accept a bad candidate loses elections. Stop fucking advocating for it.
The voters aren't different than they are. They didn't want to vote for genocide so they didn't. Harris didn't offer them another choice so they didn't show up.
That's her fault, and yes, her rightward shift is accelerationism. The defense of that as an approach to electoralism is also accelerationism.
And it fucking loses elections. Democratic voters aren't having it. They don't want right wing politics. They don't want a right wing Democratic party. They won't vote for it.
You have to decide between being an apologist for genocide or winning elections.
Accelerationsism is saying that the Democrats need to step to the right and be more like Republicans to win elections.
Accelerationism is not saying that Democrats need to focus on their base and speaking to the issues the base finds important, to win elections.
Your claim that what I'm describing is accelerationist shows you both don't understand the point I'm making, or what accelerationism is.
Apologizing and defending the Democrats continued step to the right is accelerationism. You are arguing that voters just need to catch up to this rightward shift.
Like.. This defense of Joe Biden/ Kamala Harris approach to the election keeps getting defended. You are arguing that "less bad" should be good enough.
Listen the fuck up: IT ISN'T
We have the fucking data. We ran the fucking experiment.
Less bad LOSES FUCKING ELECTIONS!!
Democrats need to do better and if you are running static interference for their failed approach to electoralism: you are trying to lose the next election.
Your phony, insincere approach to electorism ignores the facts on the ground that for the American Electorate, less bad, it DOESN'T WIN ELECTIONS.
Democrats want to win a certain way where they don't have to be better for voters.
If you keep apologizing for it or defending it, you are committing to losing future elections.
What you say matters more than what you say you say. Your "realism" is just the same ol' disgusting centrist cynicism that continuously loses Democrats elections.
I get it. Its the big tent party. We're forced to share an umbrella with centrists. But centrists SUCK at winning elections. They're FUCKING bad at it, and they're the ones who share your views. You have to decide between winning elections, or repeating this ideology.
2008: Run a progressive platform and focusing on motivating Democrats with policies they want. Win.
2012: Run a progressive platform and focusing on motivating Democrats with policies they want. Win.
2016: Run a centrist/ RW platform and focusing on trying to capture Republican voters. Lose.
2020: Run a progressive platform and focusing on motivating Democrats with policies they want. Win.
2024: Run a centrist/ RW platform and focusing on trying to capture Republican voters. Lose.
If you/ yours wins the ideological fight for what Democrats need to do differently to be competitive, they'll never win another election.
Its toxic, its wrong, its strategically idiotic. It loses elections. You should keep this opinion to yourself or just go be a Republican. Democrats can't win with you in the party.
Someday we'll be able to get gif tattoos and I'm getting this one.