• Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    You make it sound like running a campaign is so easy.

    It’s not, at all. Spotting a repeated mistake IS pretty easy, though

    you will lose the support of so much of the centrist/independent block

    Prove it. Leftist ideas are liked by the majority of the country when asked without labels, so you’re talking out your ass.

    43% of the US population identifies as independent

    A lot of those are leftists who don’t associate with the DNC. I would know, I’m a member of a group of them who all get talk about politics. I’m literally a member of the group you’re claiming wouldn’t vote for a more left candidate and I’ll tell you: the majority of us would

    Conservatives can always count on their base to vote for whoever… apparently we’ve learned that we can’t do that with progressives

    Progressives aren’t the Democratic base, but nice try shifting the blame. Democrats are right-wing and are losing votes because of it. Look at 2024 in CA and see the millions of votes lost because they went centrist

    We apparently only vote for the PERFECT candidate, or we just won’t vote at all

    Either troll or so stupid you’re not worth engaging further on, just holy shit what a stupid reduction

    • Alteon@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      The last 4 Democratic Presidents have ALL been just barely left of center - Biden, Obama, Clinton, and Carter. The last true progressive we tried to run back was in '72 against Nixon and we lost so incredibly badly that people backed FAR away from trying to run a progressive candidate…go look at the results, they’re pretty insane.