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The left doesn't realize theyre not as popular as they think. Otherwise they could easily overpower the actual people who vote in primaries for centrist candidates. Like AOC, mamdani, etc.
Either theyre not that popular or theyre lazy. Same result. Maybe leftists would be wise to figure out which and fix that because blaming somehow the all powerful but seemingly inept DNC for all their woes is clearly not working.
Dawg you sound like an agitator ngl
Not an agitator. Just tired of the rhetoric that theyre oh so smart and have it all figured out but damn, the only thing they can't do is win any political power because XYZ.
Kind of like the opening of that show the newsroom or whatever it was. Just all the time here.
Your problem is you are measuring from inside the asshole of the billionaires. The trail turns center right and center left, but the ultimate outcome is the same. The only direction that matters is straight backwards.
You wouldn't know what popular reform is popular because "the left," and real populism, is completely shut out of politics. Your argument is really too ignorant to further refute, everyone knows they are being screwed, the right is the only one promising to do anything about it, and the left is entirely suppressed, as are any true populist movements in general. Only billionaire fake populism is allowed to fester.
Suppressed eh?
What a load of garbage, to speak frankly. Leftists never seem short of ideas or excuses for why they fail to inspire people to vote for them. It's always someone else's fault. Somehow the right can garner votes and convince people of things. Somehow they can get power and enact change. But the left? You have AOC and Mamdani to start. But the left NEVER seems to figure out why they can't really inspire people to come out and vote for them.
It's a bunch of horseshit. You did it with those two, why not other races? Turnout for primaries is generally 30% or so. That is nothing. It would be extremely easy to overcome the inertia in the party if people just actually went and voted but the left, again, never runs out of excuses as to why that can't be done. Hell, Zohran DID THAT. The primary turnout wasn't even stupendously high and he increased it enough to easily win the primary.
No- the problem is that people like you don't want to face facts. My last statement is entirely accurate and all you people ever do is downvote it because it's an uncomfortable truth that you have no answer for. I'm telling you and the rest of the "left" to get your shit together and fix it. Stop blaming everyone else for your own inability to inspire actual change.
Every accusation is a confession. You wouldn't know what leftists can inspire or not because they've been completely shut out of politics for longer than we have been alive, with few exceptions, and vanishingly rare exceptions for white popular reformers. Call it left or right, I call it backwards, out of the asshole of the billionaires.
It's not left, or right, believing working people shouldn't get cheated by the rich, and anti trust laws enforced. Everyone agreed on that before big business conspired to take over both parties and replace them with good cop bad cop, even as bad cop is now playing hitler and big business doesn't see how a supreme leader will destroy them, and stop them before it's too late as the monster they created is already escaping their control.
Not the democrats though, that is firmly in control of the billionaires, and their reason for being is crushing popular reform in the cradle. There is not a single white person pushing popular reform in congress, or governorship. Why not? Why has there been zero challenges to leadership of the senate, or house, for decades, and little to no challenge for president despite doomed to fail status of the chosen candidate?
No, you wouldn't know how popular popular reform is, and every accusation is a confession in regards to this horseshit you just brought to me.
All youre saying is "I know what is best but everyone else is too stupid to see it."
Thanks for confirming my point brilliantly.
"People don't want this flavor of ice cream so they MUST want my ice cream flavor by default!"
You cant prove things that way but nice try.
Have a good day. Spend less time online and more time in real life convincing people youre right. I honestly wish you luck because I want progressive policies but you'll never get anywhere blaming anyone and everyone else for your own failures.
That isn't what I said at all. You wouldn't know if "left" politics is popular because it's shut out of politics, almost entirely. I can't make it any simpler for you.