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null@piefed.nullspace.lol 8 hours agothe only way to win power is by including the left in their coalition
What percentage of eligible voters define themselves as “on the left” and did not vote Democrat in the general election?
FunkyStuff@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Not enough people, that’s why organizing on the ground is more important than electoral campaigns.
null@piefed.nullspace.lol 5 hours ago
Not enough people so therefore that’s why the Dems lost? Make that make sense.
FunkyStuff@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
The Dems didn’t lose because leftists didn’t vote for them, there’s not a lot of leftists in the US anyway. They lost because Biden’s presidency failed to improve people’s material conditions since COVID and Kamala offered nothing better.
Ideally leftists could actually be organized enough that we could make concrete demands and withholding our votes would kill a candidate’s chances, but that’s not the reality except in some specific local contexts. In general this is a big reason why I think leftists in the US shouldn’t really bother with national elections (except as a way to advertise their orgs like PSL does) since they aren’t really achieving anything by putting energy somewhere that their enemies can outdo them with money.
null@piefed.nullspace.lol 4 hours ago
This is what we were talking about. Not sure why you were jumping in with something unrelated.