• originalfrozenbanana
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    1 month ago

    Nah see you keep not addressing the point. Voting for a progressive third party in the general will not get you a progressive win. It won’t give the Democratic Party something to think about. It won’t show them that the voters want progressives. It will get you a Republican win. Somehow you’re still trying to dodge that reality. You build change from the bottom up, not the top down.

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      1 month ago

      Voting for a progressive third party in the general will not get you a progressive win.

      So are you just under the impression that we’re not only stuck with Biden, there’s nothing the Dem base can ever do to ever change his mind?

      So the only option besides letting Biden do only whatever he wants, is voting third party?

      Because I don’t understand why Biden supporters skip the step where it’s a possibility Biden listens to his base.

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        1 month ago

        Because I don’t understand why Biden supporters skip the step where it’s a possibility Biden listens to his base.

        Centrists are Biden’s base, and they don’t want him broadening that base by listening to people to their left (and only their left.)

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          1 month ago

          The Democratic voters base is Gen Z and Millennials, who make up 40% of the electorate. Over 45 which is pretty much everyone else is solidly trump.

          That’s one of the big problems, the Dems dont understand who they represent.

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            1 month ago

            The Democratic voters base is Gen Z and Millennials, who make up 40% of the electorate.

            Yes, but you said Biden’s base. Not Democrats’ base. The one is a subset of the other.