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They'll come demanding our votes any day now
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How manybtimes do people have to butch about it before voting in the fucking primaries to move the party left?
I'm in Texas so am more familiar with Texas numbers, and the good news is that Democratic participation in the primaries this year was about triple what it was for the 2022 or 2018 midterm cycles, driven by a particularly tight Senate primary that had received national attention due to the administration's reactions to Volvert and The View.
The bad news is that even with the incredible relative growth, we're looking at about 10% of registered voters engaging in the primaries.
Primaries have been hot this year precisely because lots of people are invested in seeding the next round of general elections with ideologically aligned candidates.
The problem is that it's not just progressives wrangling for control. Quite a few conservative/corporate democrats are also heavily invested in winning these races. They've got a ton of money behind them, in anticipation of Dems retaking the House in 2027. And there are a number of foreign governments all putting their own fingers on the scales to make sure their interests are represented in our World Police State run out of DC.
I've seen estimates much closer to 20-30%, depending on state. Even then, a lot of these races are very localized and not well understood thanks to the geographic and population size of the districts in question. Look at the Texas statewide races. The only candidates that got any meaningful attention were the Senate primary between Talarico (a person you probably never heard of until Colbert had him on) and Crockett (a Congresswoman largely popularized through her appearances on the Congressional investigatory committee on UAFs). The gubernatorial race - arguably the most important statewide race on the ballot - went straight under the radar. A bunch of (heavily gerrymandered) US House seats got even less attention thanks to the expensive media markets and expansive voting districts. Literally who do you vote for in the TX-35 US House race? Do you recognize any of these people? Then you've got the outright uncontested positions - Texas AG, Texas Land Commissioner, Comptroller, a bunch of judges.
I'm friends with the guy running for the railroad commissioner down in Texas, and he's an incredible progressive politician. He's got my vote 1000x over. But this is arguably the third most powerful position in the state. Rosenthal took it totally uncontested. If he wins statewide in November, it won't be thanks to an enormous campaign war chest or high name recognition. He'll ride in on a Vote Blue No Matter Who landslide.
You need large party structures to introduce people to these candidates and advocate on their behalf. In much of the US, this party structure has been neglected if not outright dismantled. This isn't a voter problem, it is a party problem. And it is one progressives/socialists can exploit, if they can rally the numbers and the financials to do it.
You can't push the party left if you never hold them accountable. Biden was literally conducting a genocide in Gaza and you people were talking about Trump is going to be worse. What the fuck is worse than death? You have trained your politicians that you don't care what they do as long as it's them doing it
Lest we forget ICE is wildly popular with corporate democrats.
These suburban democrats like Chilidogg really piss me off with how they think we aren't voting hard enough. We aren't the ones you need to lecture about primaries. It's your neighbors who say shit like "I'm fiscally conservative but socially liberal"
And don't get me started on how the DNC stole the nomination from Bernie.
no one said biden was worse, but biden loaded the gun and let the fascists start shooting.
That's my while fucking point here.
Maybe when there's a loaded gun, we should vote not to hand it to a madman.
and we shouldn't vote for the people who would load it
Clearly you don't remember Jan 6th or the Biden cabinet's failure to eject members of Congress who were acting in bad faith to push along project 2025. And don't tell me their hands were tied, because I can just point to the shit that's happening now. And that leads us back to the very start. Blue or red, they're corpo facist pedos.