• @lemonmelon
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    -115 days ago

    How much closer did you get to progressivism this election?

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      Zero, and that’s why the dems lost. Progressive policy is popular, republican policy from 2016 is not.

      The dems are fucked until they do the things that get their base energized and going to the polls instead of triangulating themselves 2 inches to the left of the republican candidate to try to get the 2-5% of republicans who prefer diet-fascism to fascism.

      • @lemonmelon
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        415 days ago

        How many progressive candidates gained seats in this election?

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          Seats were lost because the presidential election is what brings people out to vote. ~15% of the electorate stayed home because they saw a choice between the 2016 republican and a dem with the 2016 republican platform. The down-ballot races suffered as well as a result.

          • @lemonmelon
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            215 days ago

            I’ve heard that progressive policies are quite popular and get people to the polls.

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              Yes, it’s a shame the democrats ran on building a wall to keep immigrants out and tax cuts for small businesses.

              • @lemonmelon
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                315 days ago

                Equally a shame that so many to the left of the Dems felt that their faces could use a little spiting and went straight to work on their noses.

                Regardless of what wagon we arrived in, we’re all here now. And we’re quite short on options that will improve our circumstances.

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                  See you’re doing it again, every time you shift the blame away from the people who decide the things that determine whether or not people vote, you convince the dems they can do it again.

                  This is exclusively the fault of the democrats. You can’t change the reality that running on policy your base doesn’t like, and then telling them “fuck you gonna do, help trump win?” decreases turnout.

                  The only reason they pushed Biden out was that they saw they had zero chance at victory if they didn’t change.

                  • @lemonmelon
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                    215 days ago

                    Uh huh, there I go again? This suddenly shifted from a reasonable conversation to bad faith rhetoric. This is collectively the fault of everyone who made piss poor, ineffectual efforts to stop it as a unified bloc. That encompasses a lot of folks. But as long as you have the specter of “they did it, not me” then I guess it’s easier to avoid speculation as to why we all can’t win.

                    I’m as guilty of that by saying that aligning with the larger contingent was the best way through, I suppose. But failing to even make a reasonable effort was beyond the pale. I didn’t want the outcome we got, but far too many leftists and progressives seemed comfortable with flirting with disaster.

                    Did you envision a worse outcome than the one we got? Because, for me, it was the most unfavorable situation. Working backward from that, it seemed self-evident that the clear path to avoiding it was to throw in with the only other viable option.

                    Anything else, any more complex assessment of the choice that was given to us, invited in division. The fascist platform was “fuck you” and everyone to the left of that was more concerned with the etymology of the phrase or the moral implications of flipping someone off than firing back with “no, fuck YOU” and sorting out the details once we found out whether or not there were enough of us who didn’t want to be fucked.