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I'm a little dumb, and not an American. Can someone explain how democrates are using republicans to kill voters?
It has been the Democrat's major strategy to gain political power in this country since 2016 when Trump first took office to advocate for a certain type of negative politics that isn't the Republicans, rather than advocating for a positive politics focused on what makes the Democrats.
Establishment Dems use the existence of MAGA Republicans to try to persuade voters that they're at least not as bad as MAGA, when they should be spending the time between elections persuading voters with all the good policies that defined the Dems for decades: positive immigration, civil rights, social safety nets, etc.
Establishment Dems have a politics of what are we against, while new sects of the party like Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have a politics of what are we for. The latter are seeing amazing success across the country.
except they no longer support those policies.
the democrat election strategy for the last few election cycles has been to promise no substantial improvement and just point at the republicans. obama was the last democrat president who remembered to lie and make big promises.
At least we got the Affordable Care Act with him (while Trump got rid of it) and repealed Don't Ask Don't Tell allowing LGBTQ+ service members to openly serve in the military. Almost everything else after that has been a disappointment from the Dems since they find it more profitable to act as controlled opposition to the GOP thanks to bribery from groups like major oil companies and Israel.
It refers to the last 20 years or so, where the democrats platform has been so terrible, that the only way they get elected, is because they are not Republicans.
Obama only got elected because of how terrible Bush was, then Biden got elected because of how terrible Trump was.
The problem is this strategy only works with recency bias and people are starting to ignore it.
Not an American either but I think it's more like democrates threatens the voters that if they don't vote for them, republicans are gonna kill them. Republicans are definitely making things worse, and democrates are blaming leftists that didn't vote for them.
It's not killing IMO but "holding a gun to someone's head" means "forcing" them.
Like look at those evil republican politicians, you must vote for us, or get more evil republican politicians.
They are not wrong though, but could do so much better smh.
As an American, I can confirm that every election cycle is literally this. In 25 or so years of voting, I have never once avoided some talking head explaining how any policy left of processing immigrants into Sysco food would alienate "moderates" and lose the election to someone that's actually bad.
As if they would be processed into something edible were talking about Americans it would be left to rot for a while then made prison grade
The Democratic party largely runs on a platform based more on counteracting the Republican party less than substantially improving anything. Despite claiming to be progressive, they have slowly shifted to the right over decades, and manage to bungle easy wins again and again.
That’s one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read.
Classic American response.