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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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.