The chair of the MN state party where Tim Walz was able to rise to Governor is now the chair of the DNC, and David Hogg is the vice chair and has announced he’ll be funding primary challengers in safe Democratic districts with a do-nothing incumbent. These changes to the national leadership were brought to you by party members who voted in the parties internal elections. Aspiring progressives need to declare their candidacy in the primary whether the state party wants them to or not. And the progressive voters need to show up whether the state party wants the progressive or not. That’s the only way to make it happen. Passively sitting it out while waiting for another group to cater the perfect candidate to you is a recipe for “we don’t care about your non-vote.”
Disclaimer: I’m not specifically accusing you individually of being a non-voter, as I don’t know you at all.
I am absolutely a non-voter. I am in a Dem majority county and state. So my vote does not matter in the slightest. A Rep flipping my area has about as much as a fart in the wind offending a bloodhound upwind.
The delegates are legally pledged to the popular vote winner though. Delegates pledged to a candidate who dropped out before the convention will typically vote for whomever their pledged candidate endorsed when they dropped out. If you’re thinking of the superdelegates, they don’t even get a vote unless the pledged delegates aren’t able to elect a nominee in the first round (this change went into effect in 2018).
I will say it again, I am in a majority Dem county and state.
It doesn’t matter who I vote for. It isn’t like there are 2 candidates that are super close, one always has a majority right away and everybody knows who that it going to be.
If we look at 2016, Hilary was always going to win because Bernie was too far left(bad for business) and everybody else had about a snowball’s chance of hitting the Sun from the part of Hell with dry heat. That same primary, Bernie nearly doubled Trump’s votes.
2020? The Dems pushed for Biden as the great hope against the Armageddon that is a second Trump term and Bernie lost hundreds of thousands of votes. Biden nearly doubled Trump’s votes.
2024? Biden got over 90% of votes because the orange man can’t win or we all die and he will put trans kids and immigrants in camps with German engineered showers. Biden had double Trump’s votes again, but got hundreds of thousands less votes than Hilary in 2016 and stepped down to make way for Harris, who only had a platform based on being a woman that isn’t white and isn’t Trump.
Literally no point in Me voting in national elections where I’m at.
“Orange man bad” is certainly not the left. That’s the moderates. The left is more “unions good” and “Medicare for All” and “tax billionaires” and “Green New Deal.” Stuff like that. It’s a pretty popular agenda with everyone but the donor class.
And Biden’s enacted policies were not the Green New Deal despite the branding around it. Some aspects were included in the infrastructure bill and the Inflation Reduction Act but, obviously, getting Manchin and Sinema to support anything required fewer progressive priorities and more fundraisers/bribes.
You mean the Democrats needs to actually campaign on and deliver what the majority of their potential voters want.
Shame they will double down on their failed strategy and not understand why they can’t capture moderates.
The chair of the MN state party where Tim Walz was able to rise to Governor is now the chair of the DNC, and David Hogg is the vice chair and has announced he’ll be funding primary challengers in safe Democratic districts with a do-nothing incumbent. These changes to the national leadership were brought to you by party members who voted in the parties internal elections. Aspiring progressives need to declare their candidacy in the primary whether the state party wants them to or not. And the progressive voters need to show up whether the state party wants the progressive or not. That’s the only way to make it happen. Passively sitting it out while waiting for another group to cater the perfect candidate to you is a recipe for “we don’t care about your non-vote.”
Disclaimer: I’m not specifically accusing you individually of being a non-voter, as I don’t know you at all.
I am absolutely a non-voter. I am in a Dem majority county and state. So my vote does not matter in the slightest. A Rep flipping my area has about as much as a fart in the wind offending a bloodhound upwind.
All the more reason to vote in the Democratic primary, as that’s your real election, then.
Nope, decided by delegates. I vote for who I want and the party decides who they want.
If elections were decided by popular vote, I would have more motivation.
The delegates are legally pledged to the popular vote winner though. Delegates pledged to a candidate who dropped out before the convention will typically vote for whomever their pledged candidate endorsed when they dropped out. If you’re thinking of the superdelegates, they don’t even get a vote unless the pledged delegates aren’t able to elect a nominee in the first round (this change went into effect in 2018).
I will say it again, I am in a majority Dem county and state.
It doesn’t matter who I vote for. It isn’t like there are 2 candidates that are super close, one always has a majority right away and everybody knows who that it going to be.
If we look at 2016, Hilary was always going to win because Bernie was too far left(bad for business) and everybody else had about a snowball’s chance of hitting the Sun from the part of Hell with dry heat. That same primary, Bernie nearly doubled Trump’s votes.
2020? The Dems pushed for Biden as the great hope against the Armageddon that is a second Trump term and Bernie lost hundreds of thousands of votes. Biden nearly doubled Trump’s votes.
2024? Biden got over 90% of votes because the orange man can’t win or we all die and he will put trans kids and immigrants in camps with German engineered showers. Biden had double Trump’s votes again, but got hundreds of thousands less votes than Hilary in 2016 and stepped down to make way for Harris, who only had a platform based on being a woman that isn’t white and isn’t Trump.
Literally no point in Me voting in national elections where I’m at.
Moderates are what ruined this country and allowed the Nat-C’s to take total control.
The only reason that happened is because the progressive left pushed moderates right with a poor platform and pandering.
If they had a decent platform that wasn’t based on orange man bad, maybe they could come up with something of value to campaign on and win.
“Orange man bad” is certainly not the left. That’s the moderates. The left is more “unions good” and “Medicare for All” and “tax billionaires” and “Green New Deal.” Stuff like that. It’s a pretty popular agenda with everyone but the donor class.
And Biden’s enacted policies were not the Green New Deal despite the branding around it. Some aspects were included in the infrastructure bill and the Inflation Reduction Act but, obviously, getting Manchin and Sinema to support anything required fewer progressive priorities and more fundraisers/bribes.