• Tinidril@midwest.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      9 months ago

      As long as the focus is on blaming voters instead of figuring out how to reach voters, all you are doing is virtue signaling. Blaming voters is a defeatist mentality.

      The issue is also not about people voting GOP. Democrats who chase GOP voters lose in almost every case, with rare exception for oddballs like Manchin. Winning elections is all about turnout for Democrats. When there is high turnout, Democrats win, which is why Republicans focus their efforts on suppressing turnout.

      People who don’t think either side is working in their best interest and addressing their problems don’t show up to vote. They don’t even show up in conversations on lemmy. They have decided that politics is just a scam they want nothing to do with. That is a direct result of rampant legalized corruption in the Democratic party, and no amount of fear mongering about Trump or Republicans is going to change that.

      I’m not telling you that you are wrong, I’m telling you that being right doesn’t win elections. Convincing potential voters that you are in their corner does, and that takes a long time to happen once trust is broken.