@RealJournalism@mastodon.social
How to Eradicate Donald Trump Once and For All. Hint -- It's not through the mainstream media, and it's not through depending on the DNC. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/1/2214906/-Eradicating-Donald-Trump-Through-the-50-State-Strategy
As this Daily Kos article clearly states: Beating Trump is something that we do together.
Read the article to see how you can make Democracy victorious over Fascism.
In 2024, our actions, yours and mine, will make the difference and will make clear forever that Americans prefer a Democracy.
@paulschoe @RealJournalism “ Beating Trump is something that we do together,” sounds an awful lot like “Conservative Democrats blaming progressives once again for refusing to vote for politicans who refuse to take our policy demands seriously.”
It is a risk calculation.
20 years ago, I would vote for the person who best represented my cases.
Now, even when I feel that something that I care about is not taken care of, I will still go out to vote because if the other side wins, there is a chance that my vote won't matter anymore for decades to come.
So yes, if conservative Democrats decide to stay at home because the policies are too progressive (or vice versa), I will blame them when Republicans win.
@paulschoe @RealJournalism Yes, of course you will, because you are evidently a political neophyte who doesn't understand how elections in the US work.
Here's a clue: there are no nationwide elections in the US. There are only statewide elections.
Clinton won California by 4.5 million votes in 2016, and won the popular vote by 3 million votes. Which means she lost the entire rest of the nation by 1.5 million votes.
@paulschoe @RealJournalism But of course, the actual truth is that conservative Democrats aren't going to stay home because the candidates policies are "too progressive". That's just not how Democratic voters work, and there hasn't been a "too progressive" candidate in a very long time, if ever. Conservative Dems will turn out for a progressive—after all, the progressive is "better than the other guy", right?—but not the other way around.
Then we have to advocate that it is better to have half the pie, than no pie at all.
And it is our fault when we are unable to present Biden's achievements because there are many.
As I posted before: don't advocate from behind desks. Go out to the States, go to the infrastructure projects now finally being realized. Go to the people who have found jobs these years because of Biden's policies.
Make his achievements tangible.
