One pollster sees “flashing red” signs on youth turnout as Gen Z and millennial voters, who are not satisfied with either party, could again play a decisive role in the next election.
At the current moment, not a lot. What they needed to do was a whole lot of prevention of what we all saw that was coming and stop the republicans from changing and breaking the rules. A good analogy I read once was that you can build a fortress or a wall very strong, but given enough time without maintenance and active defense it will always be overcome. Our government is that fortress, and everyone has just assumed the power inherent in it is enough to stop bad actors and that everyone is acting in good faith, abandoning the wall and letting it be sabotaged. We need(ed) active defense of our democracy and the DNC refuses to.
They weren’t. My other main criticism of the democrats is how bad they are about publicizing when they do good things, but mostly their almost complete lack of pointing out where the republicans are being awful and fucking over the working class. There is so much material to go after the republicans on, and they do nothing with it. The republicans on the other hand will hammer on Dems all day long om shit that isn’t even real, get their base all riled up and angry to vote. If the Dems used people’s anger and upsettedness at the republicans to drive people to vote we wouldn’t be in the place we are today, they would have been able to have control of the government.
At the current moment, not a lot. What they needed to do was a whole lot of prevention of what we all saw that was coming and stop the republicans from changing and breaking the rules. A good analogy I read once was that you can build a fortress or a wall very strong, but given enough time without maintenance and active defense it will always be overcome. Our government is that fortress, and everyone has just assumed the power inherent in it is enough to stop bad actors and that everyone is acting in good faith, abandoning the wall and letting it be sabotaged. We need(ed) active defense of our democracy and the DNC refuses to.
How, exactly, were they supposed to do these things without control of the government?
They weren’t. My other main criticism of the democrats is how bad they are about publicizing when they do good things, but mostly their almost complete lack of pointing out where the republicans are being awful and fucking over the working class. There is so much material to go after the republicans on, and they do nothing with it. The republicans on the other hand will hammer on Dems all day long om shit that isn’t even real, get their base all riled up and angry to vote. If the Dems used people’s anger and upsettedness at the republicans to drive people to vote we wouldn’t be in the place we are today, they would have been able to have control of the government.
I do agree that whoever writes talking points for Dems should have been fired and the land salted behind them like 20 years ago