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Democrats worry their most loyal voters won’t turn out for Biden in 2024
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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Maybe... Maaaaaayyyyyyybeeeee the Democrats need to nominate someone who is actually worth getting excited about instead of just being not-Trump.
I'd rather we nominate someone who is electable, i.e., palatable to centrists, even if they're not as exciting as someone who would move the Overton window leftwards.
What if is instead of focusing on a vanishingly small number of centrist swing voters, you focused on the 35% of non-voters by improving their material conditions?
The majority of non-voters believe there is no material difference between candidates. Improving candidates is not going to fix that. The problem is lower level civic engagement rather than “Pick a more leftist candidate.”
https://dc.medill.northwestern.edu/blog/2020/12/15/for-nonvoters-it-doesnt-matter-who-moves-into-the-white-house/
Because those people just don't show up to vote.
Maybe all the people bitching need to show up EVERY ELECTION and then they'll start getting good candidates. But time and again progressives and everyone else just decide to not vote so therefore don't even come close to getting what they want. Vote in every election for even dog catcher like it's your religion and maybe you'll start seeing change.
Psh...no. That would never work. /s