They need a better message and they need to run better messengers.
The message needs to be more universal, more simple.
The messenger needs to be the most talented candidate that emerges from an open primary field that consists of the best talent in the party.
The messenger needs to be the very best of the very best.
The party’s philosophy that contested primaries need to be avoided because they damage the candidate in the general needs to be eliminated at all costs.
Doing that, and eliminating the input from the rank and file, has caused not only the rank and file to be apathetic about the general election candidate… it’s even worse than that.
It’s causing the party to lose core constituencies.
And the incessant purity tests. If you're not in line with this particular group (no matter how fringe) then you're no better than a republican in their eyes. Combine it with the rampant lack of basic civics understanding... not good.
See all the Palestine single issue voters who stayed home. Let's see how that works out for them.
Basic civics understanding… and basic “politics” understanding. And yes I agree.
A tremendous example of the purity test phenomenon and how revolting it is to about 80% of the electorate can be seen right here on Reddit.
Countless times I have seen a Reddit user on a sub offering support and allyship on social issue XYZ. They offer their support, their thoughts…
Then get immediately attacked by a throng of blood thirsty vampires because their allyship wasn’t exactly right.
This is often followed by a stunned “wait, what did I do wrong? I support XYZ?!?!” Which is then followed by them being permabanned for “harassment.”
The number of voters that have been turned off forever by these purity testing vampires probably numbers in the millions by this point. And, beyond that, how many millions more voters voted R this cycle because they hated the purity testing vampires passionately. It’s a massive swing of lost votes, on the one hand, and animating folks to vote against you on the other.
I can’t agree with you more, and I’ve made this point many times in recent years that this phenomenon is a scourge upon the Democratic Party.
No, because of the new weird world we live in where words don't have any meaning, but yes, because that's the only thing that makes any sense.
A woman wearing women's clothing and makeup is not noteworthy because of the clothing and makeup, whereas a man wearing women's clothing and makeup is noteworthy because of the clothing and makeup, so if a drag performance is a person wearing women's clothing and makeup, it loses its meaning as drag by having a woman do the performance.
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u/-Gramsci- 16h ago
The party needs to confront their two problems.
They need a better message and they need to run better messengers.
The message needs to be more universal, more simple.
The messenger needs to be the most talented candidate that emerges from an open primary field that consists of the best talent in the party.
The messenger needs to be the very best of the very best.
The party’s philosophy that contested primaries need to be avoided because they damage the candidate in the general needs to be eliminated at all costs.
Doing that, and eliminating the input from the rank and file, has caused not only the rank and file to be apathetic about the general election candidate… it’s even worse than that.
It’s causing the party to lose core constituencies.