• @Viking_Hippie
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    9 days ago

    Because the center right to right wing Dem leadership simultaneously ignore the wishes of the Left and take them for granted, offering them little to nothing in the way of improvements to the atrocious status quo.

    Give people something to vote FOR, instead of only a greater evil to vote AGAINST, and you’ll get much higher voter turnout.

    For example, another received wisdom is “young people don’t vote” and guess what? When they were given the chance to vote for their bodily autonomy in Kansas, young women voted at a higher rate than men of any age combined.

    The last time the Dems campaigned on going further left, 2008, was their biggest win in decades. When Obama then governed further to the right and campaigned for reelection accordingly, he won by a MUCH smaller margin.

    • brvslvrnst
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      49 days ago

      and you’ll get much higher voter suppression.

      You mean turnout here?

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        39 days ago

        Yeah, thanks for pointing that out 😄

        Fixed