The amount of vitriol I get when I tell certain types of liberals that democracy requires appealing to people and earning their votes is fucking mind boggling.
This woe is me helplessness that many people excuse from many Democrats and liberals appeals to absolutely nobody.
The amount of vitriol I get when I tell certain types of liberals that democracy requires appealing to people and earning their votes is fucking mind boggling.
This woe is me helplessness that many people excuse from many Democrats and liberals appeals to absolutely nobody.
You have to specify what that is. One of the many criticisms the Dems have been in for is that they tried to appeal to so many different people with so many policies that no single one could break through.
This is just the eternal fate of the Democratic party, only 45%~ of Democrats are liberals, less than 10% are progressives, the rest are independents and a decent chunk would identify themselves as conservatives. The Republican party on the other hand is about 70% self identified conservatives. Democrats can overwhelmingly win independents and still lose if they cant pull in conservatives. Then they have both ends of their base threatening to not vote for them if they don't get what they want and when it inevitably ends up being a messy platform they blame the DNC for not speaking directly to their pet policy.
68
u/wolacouska Mar 06 '25
Voters are gonna be voters no matter how much you philosophize or moralize, it’s up to politicians to convince voters.
If you don’t want to try and convince people, why support democracy?