Democrats Scrubbed An Issue From Their Party Platform — And It's Going Under The Radar
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For the first time in more than a decade, the Democratic Party platform includes no mention of abolishing the death penalty.

On Monday, the Democrats approved their 2024 platform, which includes no mention of the death penalty. This year’s platform marks the first time since 2004 the platform has not mentioned the death penalty (the 2008 and 2012 platforms called for making the punishment less arbitrary).

Public support for the death penalty has been gradually declining. A Gallup poll last year found that 65% of Democrats oppose the punishment.

The Democratic National Committee did not respond to an email asking if the party still supports abolishing the death penalty.

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  • Todd Bonzalez
    205·
    20 days ago

    Adopting a platform with as agreeable as possible to beat an extremist. As long as they don’t start endorsing the death penalty, I understand this strategy.

    • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldEnglish
      117·
      20 days ago

      Adopting a platform with as agreeable as possible to beat an extremist.

      They’re adopting an extremist position to beat an extremist.

      • SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
        53·
        20 days ago

        You can label it whatever you want, when one party abandons good faith, we all lose, even if that party does not win. Democracy is a free market of ideas, which is only as strong as the average of ALL of its participants.