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Democrats worry their most loyal voters won’t turn out for Biden in 2024
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Maybe… Maaaaaayyyyyyybeeeee the left voters need to actually show up to vote.
Now everyone is going to say they voted in a presidential election, possibly even a primary which makes them a rarity! Those aren't what we're talking about. The right has made it a point to vote on everything even as small as schoolboards so the only people voting in the tiny little races are the right wing rage crowd or the centrists who are being pulled to the right. Yes, the presidential vote matters, but frankly those lower down votes mean a lot more and if you watch how the Republican primaries are going, shows exactly how much power that batch that will show up has over a party.
This is some real "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" energy. If "just vote" actually worked, they'd change the system just enough so it doesn't. Assembling establishment voltron in 2020 during the primaries is just a tiny taste of the lengths that democrats will go to in order to prevent a progressive candidate from winning.
Thing is, it isn't "Just vote", it's being absolutely active every step of the way. Dunno what your territory is but my state we're having an absolute route of the ultra-right wing going for every local position with the Republicans national conference funding them, the Dems have considered the entire state a lost cause.
So kinda, yea, it is a pull yourself up by the bootstraps, and anyone else who you can pull up as well because we're sure as hell not getting help from the top, but it's either that or sit on our fucking hands and go "whelp". Remember, whether you like her or not, AOC primaried the supposed "2nd in command" Democrat. If you don't like the establishment, you root it out from the bottom.
Except left voters don't "just vote" in every election.
If they did then things would be far more left and far better apparently than they are.
No, they'd rather bitch that the candidate isn't good enough then stay home, just ensuring shit never changes.
That's cute that you think the system actually works.
That's cute everyone gives up, bitches and does nothing, then complains it doesn't work.
Here's a free tip- get off your ass, get involved, and WORK FOR IT.
but hey, easier to bitch on lemmy and blame everyone else eh.
I even support left ideas but the left in general absolutely sucks at getting the vote out. Look at AOC and how hard she and her people worked and got elected. That's your template but yet, not enough do that. Sorry but throwing your hands up and saying it can't be done is a self fulfilling prophecy.
"Pull yourself up by the bootstraps."
Great that that is the only thing you got. You can't even offer an honest rebuttal.
Whatever excuse you need to justify being lazy, go for it.