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‘What a circus’: eligible US voters on why they didn’t vote in the 2024 presidential election
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2024
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We can yell at them that the handful of issues should matter enough, or we could actually try to get a popular candidate past the party itself and I to the general.
But shit isn't going to change until we all admit the DNC isn't automatically on our side. I'm more hopeful than I should be for the DNC election in February, but I'm ready to be disappointed.
I really wish we had a unified left because there are enough of us to make a serious push to take over the party, but we're too interested in bickering amongst ourselves
No theres not. This is the effect of the lemmy echo chamber. America is A LOT more conservative than ppl here like to admit. The actual left of the Democratic party are ppl like Bernie and AOC and they're definitely not celebrated inside the DNC
That's because three Democratic party is a coalition of liberals and conservatives
Surprised not to see some self-unaware someone arguing that this position is somehow too far to the right or something
We 100% don't agree on everything, and I don't know how unified we can be given the number of diverse interests under the umbrella. Feminists don't have any natural overlap with folks who want to eliminate cars or with atheists. The only unifying goal that makes proponents allies is opposing conservatives.
You've got black folks who are going to live their entire lives oppressed by systemic racism being told to just go along with getting rights excruciatingly slowly and trust their grandkids will have it great.
I'm afraid as much sense as your point makes, it isn't realistic.
Problem is that leftists like money, too, and aren't afraid to exploit others in order to get it.
The person in the quote is a big indicator that schools are failing to teach civics properly, and people don't understand what voting is (locally, state, or federally.) Also, they are a fucking idiot.
He's referring to the illusion of choice.
Your comment is textbook irony.