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Michigan governor says not voting for Biden over Gaza war ‘supports second Trump term’
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No, we always end up with a centrist because a vast majority of voters are nowhere near as left-wing as the people who flock to Reddit and Lemmy. The American public is electing who they support and believe in, and it sounds to Lemmy leftists like the rest of America is robbing something from them because they never meaningfully interact with people on other parts of the ideological spectrum. Whether you realize it or not, a sizeable majority of American voters do not think or vote like you do.
Which is why I've given up on actually being happy with my government: I'm a weirdo and most Americans actually like this shit.
A majority of Americans have been unhappy with their government almost every single year since Nixon was President. So no, most Americans don't actually like this shit. It's just that given the problems we're currently facing and the fact that most Americans don't like this shit, a huge majority of them either blithely disagree with people who think like you, or actively and violently oppose people who think like you. A majority of America simply has different priorities, even if they ostensibly like progressive ideas, and that's the reality we're stuck with until public opinion shifts in a different direction or on-the-ground conditions change.
And I'm not gonna live long enough to see that.
A lot of black people died before the Civil Rights Movement. A lot of LGBTQ+ people died before gay marriage was legalized. A lot of women died before their full integration into the workforce. A lot of political outsiders died before the first nationally-binding primary system was implemented in 1972. All of those people died either hopeful that change would come or resigned to the fact that it never would, yet here we are.
Public opinion can and does change. It takes time, and progress is intermixed with periods of backsliding, but change is certainly possible. I think the American experiment will eventually collapse by popular vote, but I hope I can see a few cultural, economic, environmental, and philosophical victories notched between now and then, just as I've witnessed a few big ones since I was born.
Cool take, see you after the flopped election when you're back here screaming that leftists single handedly tanked the election for Biden. 🤷
People really will argue there are no left leaning voters and also leftists are why Democrats can't win elections because the non existent voters don't vote.
Shocking that aiming at the apathetic middle fence sitters doesn't seem to work when clearly that the argument is that it does. In which case it doesn't matter that Biden isn't liked by leftists cause he will win in a landslide for getting all those centrists and centrist conservatives right?
I'm with you dude. I don't get how there can be this argument that Democrats don't need leftists and shouldn't try to even bother getting their votes but also are being ruined by greedy lefties not voting. It's a fucking paradox which means they need to actually give a shit and aim for the left.
Not my take, I brought sources. Feel free to read them if you want to get outside of your bubble for a bit.
I will eat this thread printed out on a sheet of paper after elections in November if Biden loses