So… not guaranteed? George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, and Al Gore all displayed markedly more leftist tendencies and lost elections. Obama and Clinton tacked to the right and met with wild success.
people like carter or gore et al. weren’t “more leftists” they were generic liberals for their time when 3rd party alternatives barely existed and democrats were more engaged and empowered. (to be fair they were more liberal than the democrats we have in charge today; but that’s only because the democrats helped shift the overton window to the right).
obama met his success in his first term because he espoused leftists views and then lost voters in his second term because we went to the right. clinton went further to the right in 2016 and accordingly lost even more voters. harris went even further to the right and likewise lost even more voters; so much so that she lost the popular vote. the democratic leadership has already signaled that they intend to go even further right in 2026 and/or 2028.
I mean, if your answer is that they’re addicted to billions of dollars of oligarch campaign contributions, I’ll completely agree with you, and if you want to talk about fixing that, that sounds great.
it can’t be fixed because that’s the democrat’s goal and the reason why they’re gaslighting democrats into believing that it’s necessary to go right. they’re hoping that democrats don’t pay attention to how it’s disaffecting their fellow democrats and it works because democrats are so heavily propagandized they believe leftists are little more than a different flavor of liberals; which serves to make them willfully ignorant of why leftists won’t vote democrat all the time.
If there’s one thing Karl Marx felt super strongly about, it was about constantly ragging on one and only one of the mainstream oligarchal parties, trying to get people not to vote for that party in particular. There’s a whole chapter of “Das Kapital” about how important that part is.
https://archive.org/details/capitalvol3
https://archive.org/details/ComManifesto
https://www.amazon.com/Grundrisse-Foundations-Critique-Political-Classics/dp/0140445757
people like carter or gore et al. weren’t “more leftists” they were generic liberals for their time when 3rd party alternatives barely existed and democrats were more engaged and empowered. (to be fair they were more liberal than the democrats we have in charge today; but that’s only because the democrats helped shift the overton window to the right).
obama met his success in his first term because he espoused leftists views and then lost voters in his second term because we went to the right. clinton went further to the right in 2016 and accordingly lost even more voters. harris went even further to the right and likewise lost even more voters; so much so that she lost the popular vote. the democratic leadership has already signaled that they intend to go even further right in 2026 and/or 2028.
it can’t be fixed because that’s the democrat’s goal and the reason why they’re gaslighting democrats into believing that it’s necessary to go right. they’re hoping that democrats don’t pay attention to how it’s disaffecting their fellow democrats and it works because democrats are so heavily propagandized they believe leftists are little more than a different flavor of liberals; which serves to make them willfully ignorant of why leftists won’t vote democrat all the time.
If there’s one thing Karl Marx felt super strongly about, it was about constantly ragging on one and only one of the mainstream oligarchal parties, trying to get people not to vote for that party in particular. There’s a whole chapter of “Das Kapital” about how important that part is.