• dubs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    Bold strategy. Let’s see if it works out.

    People have been voting Blue No Matter Who for a long time. How has that worked out? All that has done is let the Dems move to the right.

    …then you’re effectively not included in the set of people whose interests are considered by politicians when they form their campaign promises.

    Thats kinda true. Because the Dems never consider what Leftists think. They’re pretty open that they’d rather let the Republicans win, then let a Leftist have a shot.

    I would propose that a lot of the cases of Dems appearing to renege on campaign promises are the result of closed door deals with the other factions…

    LoL, they aren’t forced to, they choose to. They’ve had plenty of opportunities to freely move to the left, but keep chosing not to. Hell, they’ve given up elections rather than move to the left.

    We’re not privy to those deals because it would reveal to the voters that the politicians abandoned one wish for another and a competitor would use it against them in a primary, and then there would be no deals and Congress would grind to a halting stalemate.

    No, we’re not privy to them, because they opnely don’t care about what their voting base wants. They just pretend to during campaign season.

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      Thats kinda true. Because the Dems never consider what Leftists think. They’re pretty open that they’d rather let the Republicans win, then let a Leftist have a shot.

      notably, they dont consider the interests of leftists whether they vote or not