The perpetual advice to Democrats is that moving rightward will solve all their problems. But look where the party is at the moment: already embracing Republican affect and policies, yet still losing.
Conventional wisdom among dems since the 90s has been triangulation; all voters vote for the candidate closest to their ideology, so if you can get the republican to move as far right as possible, say Hitler, then triangulate your positions to be one iota left of the republican, say 99% Hitler, then everyone left of 99.5% Hitler has to vote for you.
In practice, this only wins elections if the republican is more incompetent than Donald Trump. But democrats who believe this get tons of money from donors, and its apoealimg to the sort of class position who can afford to become congressional staffers.
And that is why the us is no longer a democracy, if someone is right wing leaning they are going to vote for the republicans, but if they are not then they are forced to vote for the “not as bad” party. Issue to me is, every time someone has to swallow their convictions and vote for the lesser evil they get a a bit more disgruntled. After so many years of being worn down, combined with low wages and higher costs of living people start to check out or vote for the worst out of spite.
Big tent politics always seem to fail, the parties that do this tend to lose a coherent platform. Issue with the states is that unlike other nations there is only the two parties, and no realistic way to have another. So now the states had evil and evil lite teams instead of like anywhere else where the dems would have been pushed out by a actual left.
Conventional wisdom among dems since the 90s has been triangulation; all voters vote for the candidate closest to their ideology, so if you can get the republican to move as far right as possible, say Hitler, then triangulate your positions to be one iota left of the republican, say 99% Hitler, then everyone left of 99.5% Hitler has to vote for you.
In practice, this only wins elections if the republican is more incompetent than Donald Trump. But democrats who believe this get tons of money from donors, and its apoealimg to the sort of class position who can afford to become congressional staffers.
And that is why the us is no longer a democracy, if someone is right wing leaning they are going to vote for the republicans, but if they are not then they are forced to vote for the “not as bad” party. Issue to me is, every time someone has to swallow their convictions and vote for the lesser evil they get a a bit more disgruntled. After so many years of being worn down, combined with low wages and higher costs of living people start to check out or vote for the worst out of spite.
Big tent politics always seem to fail, the parties that do this tend to lose a coherent platform. Issue with the states is that unlike other nations there is only the two parties, and no realistic way to have another. So now the states had evil and evil lite teams instead of like anywhere else where the dems would have been pushed out by a actual left.