Yea I don’t mean to come across as defeatist, I still vote and vote for the less bad option which is the Dems.

I think the thing that I get frustrated by is when supporters of the Democratic Party complain about voters sitting out as if it’s just some unthinkable outcome.

The reality of America is that there’s a lot of low engagement and low information voters, this shouldn’t be some startling revelation to the Democratic Party leadership.

They continue to pursue a strategy of

1. Beg for money, use that money to beg for more money and run ads to try to influence low engagement and low information voters to vote for them
2. If they lose, blame turnout
3. if they win, well gee golly shucks, a lot of that money is step 1 came from wealthy groups that dont want us to deliver anything tangible. Maybe we can deliver on social issues the wealthy dont mind or highly technocratic bills that while mostly benefitting the wealthy technically do make some goods slightly cheaper so we can say we did something for them.
4. hmm voters aren’t excited, we need to do step 1 even harder now

And after 3 decades of this “third way” strategy we find ourselves with a party that can raise lots of money and lose lots of elections. One that even when they get the levers of powers looks at all the checks they got from the wealthiest to get there and decide that the poor and middle class will just have to keep suffering.

They look at someone like Mamdani in New York being wildly popular by promising and following through on tangible things for people and scoff and go “that could never work outside of New York”

I live in Ohio, I would like the government to solve problems that impact me. I would like my taxes ro translate into services and infrastructure I can enjoy. And I think if the democrats made that a part of their strategy they wouldn’t have to go begging to the wealthiest amongst us for money to run ads to try to turn out the votes. The voters would show up because of the tangible improvements they made.