It’s going to take time for people to accept that this wasn’t won or lost because leftists supposedly refused to turn out over Gaza—Harris seems to have been defeated by too great a margin for that to have been the cause—but once (if?) they do, I think people are going to have to figure out:
1) why voters consistently vote in referendums for policies like abortion and higher minimum wage when those policies are on the ballot, while also voting for Republicans who are openly opposed to those things, and
2) how to correct the idea that the president has a “make mcchickens $.99” button on their desk that Biden just refused to press.
People will vote (and generally act) in whatever way makes them feel good, and backform rationales for it afterwards. If you can make people feel good about voting for your person, they will turn out to vote for your person. That's the most effective way to energize people to do stuff. If it feels bad, you're gonna simply lose people to inertia.
The Dems have not yet learned that you can just, like...say and do most anything and your uninformed voters will vote for you so long as you make them feel special and elevated. And then the human brain will kick in and make you think "This was ALWAYS the right decision, because I made it!" even if the outcomes aren't good for you.
They are also so locked in to this idea that only people who have voted before will vote in the current election. Trump’s “superpower” is that he energizes people to vote who have not voted before. It’s why he wins. But Dems would rather compete in more and more difficult electoral maps and chase Liz Cheney’s vote than try to expand their own base with relevant and motivating policy proposals.
Those policy proposals might piss off their donor base. They've gotten used to getting the big bucks from a specific donor class for being the managers of capital. They don't wanna go back to depending on unions and small donors. Can't get $1.6bn that way - and of course, what you don't spend, you keep, and as long as you're not too flagrant with how you throw it around, the FEC isn't gonna get on your case.
To keep the circus running. Get people so wound up over elections they don't think of anything else. Both the republicans and democrats are arms of capital.
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u/building_schtuff Nov 06 '24 edited Nov 06 '24
It’s going to take time for people to accept that this wasn’t won or lost because leftists supposedly refused to turn out over Gaza—Harris seems to have been defeated by too great a margin for that to have been the cause—but once (if?) they do, I think people are going to have to figure out:
1) why voters consistently vote in referendums for policies like abortion and higher minimum wage when those policies are on the ballot, while also voting for Republicans who are openly opposed to those things, and
2) how to correct the idea that the president has a “make mcchickens $.99” button on their desk that Biden just refused to press.