something i've been on for years, because i'm always told to be Pragmatic and Realistic, is that i believe the dems could win without giving lefties like me much of anything policy wise if they just invested in basic fundamentals and infrastructure vis a vis getting people to vote.
my understanding of why they won't ever do this is that they have consultants telling them, truthfully, that the people those efforts would empower to vote don't pay their bills. that's not their favored electorate and they're not interested in expanding it beyond the same crowd the republicans have
Well they’re going to keep on losing then.
yeah that seems to be their plan
things like the 50 state strategy, OFA, and ACORN did. real basic stuff. more in registering voters. more in making sure people have TRANSPORTATION to the polls, which is incredibly important in a country like ours with atrocious public transportation. helping with early voting, etc.
this is the kind of stuff Georgia volunteers for dems did years back that resulted in those surprise victories. they really put the fucking work in, and they did it early, too. they were registering people at police protests. the national dem response was 'thanks for the free work' and bouncing.
hell, it was worse than that, it was also repaying all that work with 'oh by the way we fucking love Cop City and we'll arrest your ass if you're against it'. they expect unpaid volunteers to do everything for them, with no investment, no infrastructure, no anything, and even arrest them sometimes.
'sure we cracked the skulls of all the people who just a couple years before were helping us win and registering people and driving them to the polls but surely they'll just get replaced by some other chumps who'll do the same work for us for free' while the war chest goes to more loser consultants.
Weird that these same people aren't turned off by someone like Gavin who's cool with some people being disposable. Strange. Odd.
just tearing my hair out for years. the dems wouldn't have to give me healthcare. they wouldn't have to even budge on popular shit like weed. if they would just fucking stop spending the money on fake jobs for family and friends to kiss their ass and gave it to no-name organizers in states.
and they won't do it, they can't do it. they absolutely refuse to meaningfully fund the infrastructure and groups who would handle the nitty gritty boring fundamental stuff of winning elections and keeping people engaged with the party. they want it for free, and they want it with no policy demands.
They just want to keep on being able to go to Washington parties and be driven around in limousines while make empty promises well guess what motherfuckers.