• Majorllama
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    Interesting you think they need to be more left?

    • Stern
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      Progressives won in states where Harris lost, so objectively, yes. We don’t need Republicans and Diet Republicans. We need two noticeably different parties.

      • @[email protected]
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        The voters that elected Trump hate progressives. Those are the the libs they want to “own.” The only way becoming more progresaive would help is if millions of people that didn’t vote in the 2024 election vote for the progressive candidate.

        • @gAlienLifeform
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          Considering there were about 90 million (archived) who didn’t vote in 2024, that seems totally possible. Harris only lost by about 2-3 million, so we’re talking 5% of this group needing to be the sort of “both parties are too right wing, there’s no point in voting” types who could be brought into our fold.

    • Chainweasel
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      Yes, they’ve been moving right and trying to stay in the center for 30 years.

      • @UsernameHere
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        They’ve won the majority of the elections in the last 30 years. So must be a winning strategy.

    • @[email protected]
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      Democrats aren’t left at all, they are effectively center-right.

      look at sinema and manchin, they led the biden administration.

      Its a big tent, and its drafty in here.

      • @UsernameHere
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        Manchin and Sinema consistently voted against party lines and were known for being republicans running as democrats. They consistently blocked the DNC. This is a bad faith argument.

      • Majorllama
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        Ok so just for a moment let’s pretend you are now democratic God/king/ emperor.

        You get to build the new party of the left. What policies are you going to run on to garner support from the majority of Americans? I am genuinely curious what you imagine this ideal left wing party to look like.

        • Raise the minimum wage, implement a single-payer universal healthcare system.

          When Sanders was on stage at Fox News being grilled by their anchors for being “too radical”, Sanders turned to the audience and asked them if these policies were really so radical.

          The Fox News audience chanted “No!” (to the surprise of the Fox anchors).

          Slashing healthcare costs and putting more money in people’s pockets are winning strategies, especially if you can call out Republicans on their bullshit messaging.