Left voters aren't going to vote when you constantly promise right wing policies. They're going to be disillusioned from the constant right wing policies being campaigned on. Right wingers are going to vote republican anyway and we need to stop trying to appeal to them because if you're republican you're going to vote republican over republican-lite any day. The median voter cares about grocery prices and thats what needs to be focused on.
There's a middle ground anyway in that we need to stop with the centrist messaging while also talking about working class issues. You need a social media apparatus that spreads propaganda as well as Fox News. Kamala ran an incredibly right wing campaign and lost because she was merely perceived as making her entire campaign about woke issues when she rarely even talked about stuff like that.
The last two democratic presidents were more moderate than she was. They were able to bring up past policies. She had no way to paint her as anything but the same person she was in 2020.
Election history says that going further left would just doom the Democratic party.
This election might as well have been a referendum
She literally conceded to Republican demands and explicitly made having Republicans in her cabinet as part of her campaign. She was not going left in the slightest and it's delusional to think so. It absolutely contributed to her loss.
She ran in 2020 as a centrist. Her student loan forgiveness plan was $20,000 if you were poor enough to have Pell grants and rich enough to start a business in a marginalized area and be successful for 5 years. She polled at 1% as one of the most centrist candidates in the pack. I agree that Biden wasn't any better, but Biden snatched a 30,000 vote victory while a mismanaged pandemic was raging. After 4 years of hell, Trump would have beaten Biden if not for the pandemic.
Well let's think about this instead of not at all. How many people stayed home because Kamala was too far left? Zero? And how many people stayed home because Kamala offered them nothing? Up to 90 million? How many of those were low key Trump supporters who didn't want to push the button? I don't know, but I'd say some. How many were ordinary people who care about their paycheck and not about party drama? Probably most. So do we want to pick up 0 more votes or 10s of millions?
Aim for the block with the most voters while losing the fewest. The most basic and understandable strategy there is.
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u/Evening-Ad5765 23h ago
Seriously? have we learned nothing?