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The Democratic party refused to understand that courting the right doesn't work - and now it's cost them the election
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this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2024
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Stop treating rural republicans, chugs, incels, and conservatives, as human beings. The problem is that too many democrats want to go back to the "good old days" of bipartisanship. Those days are long gone.
We have to treat any republican, no matter how "reasonable" as an enemy of democracy and the United States. It doesn't matter if they're family, friends, co-workers, etc. This is who they really are.
Dehumanizing them is counterproductive.
They ARE human beings, who need to both be deprogrammed and held accountable, proportionally to their actions. But they didn't just spontaneously erupt in hate and bigotry, people aren't born that way, they are socialised to be that away.
There is a collection of deeply effective systems at play here that control every aspect of our lives and those, and the people who run and directly profit from them, are to blame, not the individuals they manipulate, however hateful and harmful and misguided they become.
You're never going to solve a problem by attacking its by-products, but only by destroying it from the roots.
Democrats, despite preaching bipartisanship, do no want it. In fact, they benefit greatly from the trumpification of the republican party as they can gather their votes without making any significant concessions to the voter by denouncing how outrageous the republican party is.
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/27/1106859552/primary-illinois-colorado-republican-candidate-democrats-ads
That attitude isn't helpful either.
Bipartisanship is possible, but only by convincing everyone to come further left.
Because actual left leaning policy is popular.
That's the true lesson that Democrats refuse to learn. Mostly because they've been paid not to.
We need a cardinal voting system.
2020:
2024:
1% less this time around.