I’m not saying the article doesn’t make some good points. But, much of it is self-contradictory. It says in the beginning of the article that we can rule out progressive appeals to voters as it was the more moderate voters that stayed home. By the end of the article its saying democrats need to appeal to voters by telling them how they will materially improve the lives of working people.
Focusing on how politics can improve lives of working people materially is literally a progressive appeal.
the character in the comic is not a nonvoting democrat (the subject of your linked article).
I did not vote democrat because I am not a democrat and therefore not a nonvoting-democrat. The democrat party did not convince me to cast my vote for their candidate. Just like now I am not a republican either. I did not vote republican.
Democrats lost because they neglected to consider just how important it could have been for their candidate to fucking come out against israel. It’s all she had to do: promise to not send a single dime to genocidal fascists. she had years of opportunity to fight her own president for that kind of change too.
Look what we got “instead.” A fascist who supports genocide.
It’s all she had to do: promise to not send a single dime to genocidal fascists. she had years of opportunity to fight her own president for that kind of change too.
Even just staying silent on the issue would be enough to differentiate her from Biden for many. She couldn’t even avoid talking about how much she hated college students, but yet people act surprised those demographics didn’t go out to vote. Weird how insulting potential voters and explicitly telling them you don’t care about their vote leads to not getting their vote.
Given she avoided taking positions on most issues until the week of the election (other than to oppose healthcare and support fracking), I have a hard time believing someone in the campaign wasn’t intentionally trying to throw the election…
huh. news to me. good to know. It would help, grammatically, if their party was not named after a concept/philosophy. It’s reminding me of “data are” vs “data is.”
though the democrats have been decidedly less democratic as of late, seems more like the acknowledgement of that fact then just a pejorative. if the shoe fits maybe they should do something about it.
Contrary to what left-wing optimists had hoped, Democratic nonvoters in 2024 appear to have been less progressive than Democrats who voted. For instance, Democratic nonvoters were 14 points less likely to support banning assault rifles, 20 points less likely to support sending aid to Gaza, 17 points less likely to report believing that slavery and discrimination make it hard for Black Americans, 17 points more likely to support building a border wall with Mexico, 20 points more likely to support the expansion of fossil fuel production, and, sadly for economic populists, 16 points less likely to support corporate tax hikes (though this group still favored corporate tax hikes by a three to one margin). Overall, nonvoting Democrats were 18 points less likely to self-identify as “liberal” or “very liberal.”
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Only 39 percent of Democratic nonvoters identified as white, while 28 percent identified as Black, and 20 percent as Latino. This means that, compositionally, the more conservative profile of nonvoting Democrats (compared to voting Democrats) cannot be attributed to a whiter electorate.
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Democratic nonvoters were nearly twice as likely (60 percent vs. 32 percent) to have a household income of less than $50,000 per year, they were nearly three times less likely to hold a four-year college degree (47 percent vs. 17 percent), twice as likely to be gig workers (31 percent vs. 15 percent), and only half as likely to be union members (27 percent vs. 14 percent). Further, nonvoting Democrats were more than twice as likely as voting Democrats to report feeling the economy is worse now than a year ago (46 percent vs. 22 percent) or that their incomes had recently decreased. And, perhaps not surprisingly given their economic precarity, Democratic nonvoters were substantially more likely than voters to support increased state welfare spending (61 percent vs. 52 percent).
Granted anyone who either didn’t vote but would have voted Dem, voted for trump because they were “on the fence” somehow, or chose to vote 3rd party but otherwise would’ve voted Dem contributed to this outcome.
That said, yeah the terminally online leftist vote is not what swung this election. I say that as a terminally online leftist who voted for killmala harmus anyway
The Democratic Party needs to come to terms with the real reasons it lost the presidency in November, including that after over a year of unprecedented protests and calls for Biden to stop sending weapons to Israel, party leadership failed to listen to its own voters who overwhelmingly want their government to end its complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
It literally fucking does, at the top, in big fucking letters.
But also:
Yes, there are multiple culprits, and the party is one of them. No one fucking here on Lemmy is questioning whether the Dem party is at fault, but half the fucking place seems to think that voters allowing fascism is just Fine, Actually, because it teaches the shitlibs a lesson at the expense of the lives of marginalized groups, whom they apparently don’t give a flying fuck about when it’s not Virtue Signaling Hour.
I’m sorry, is there some secret cabal of “Harris/the DNC did nothing wrong” posters that doesn’t come around here, or are you just extrapolating that position to anyone who dares say voters share some fucking blame for literally allowing fascism because it gave them good feelies?
Okay and? When you have numbers nearly reaching 40%, what you’re looking at isn’t hyper-radical moral purity leftists; the majority of these people are almost certainly everyday people who also happen to have something resembling a conscience. There’s still no evidence to support a crusade against radical commies who ruined everything, which are clearly the people being addressed/mocked here. Unless you think 40% of Biden-voting non-voters in Arizona are Very Serious Leftists, in which case, uh… yeah.
The idea that ‘everyday people’ in the US are that interested in foreign affairs is not realistic. Foreign affairs are, unfortunately, almost purely the domain of the already-deeply politically involved, who tend not to be moderate ‘everyday people’.
Peddling narratives has consequences, yes, even online! Christ, I wish I still believed that online circlejerks didn’t affect REAL politics, but this is the post 2016 world we have the misfortune of living in, and especially the post-COVID world where traditional news media regurgitates whatever is loudest and latest in online media. The people saying things like “The Dems are just as bad as the GOP on Gaza! Don’t vote for KAMALACAUST!” were absolutely contributors to nonvoters, and especially nonvoters who had previously voted for Joe fucking Biden, of all people, but suddenly decided that HIS well-known and lifelong Zionism was a disqualifier for his V fucking P
If your view is that any anti-Israel policy in the US is moderate, you have a lot to learn about the US - unfortunately, all of it bad. Simply conditioning aid in the Democratic party was still a distinctly minority view as late as September in 2024, even though favorability of Israel had dropped lower than it’s ever been before.
Occasionally foreign policy issues can filter to the wider electorate. See: Ukraine. See also: WWII. Trump certainly wasn’t campaigning on the issue because it’s something only lefties care about.
Context matters. It’s one thing to be a hyperdedicated Zionist during peacetime; it’s another to be one during a genocide. People can see and act based on the difference. Also the narrative was almost entirely “vote blue no matter who” even among progressives. If someone picked out the voice of dissent to listen too, then that’s because they liked what they heard, not because they were mindlessly led along by what they heard online. At this point to even have a chance you’d need to eliminate all dissent, and even then it’s likely some of those people would simply become the dissent. By all dissent I also mean Arab-Americans who were having friends and family murdered and just didn’t care anymore, anyone who follows global news with any frequency and Republicans ready to exploit any political weaknesses in the Democrats’ position.
People can have views from more than one point of the political spectrum. Every now and then on European communities you’ll see people with left-leaning views say something about immigrants taking their jobs, so yeah.
Occasionally foreign policy issues can filter to the wider electorate. See: Ukraine.
Very few people outside of the politically engaged core gave a serious shit about Ukraine even before the propaganda came pouring in through Fox and OANN, which is why Trump and the GOP becoming extremely hostile to Ukraine was done without a fucking peep from their base, and without much outcry from Democrats.
See also: WWII.
… the American electorate literally did not care about WW2 before we entered, and there was considerable opposition even to the limited aid offered by the FDR administration until Pearl Harbor. Like, even American national museums on WW2 and public schooling systems acknowledge this apathy.
Trump certainly wasn’t campaigning on the issue because it’s something only lefties care about.
Trump was campaigning on the issue because:
There is an extremely strong Israeli lobby in the US which distributes literal hundreds of millions of dollars to ‘supportive’ candidates.
There is a core of politically involved right-wingers in this country with strong foreign policy views. They are certainly not moderates or everyday people, which is what I specifically said; I did not restrict foreign policy interest to leftists, but to politicos.
Unfortunately, many Jews in this country, while formerly more Palestine-sympathetic than the general population (polls post Oct 7 have been mixed), still have a great emotional attachment to Israel and view support of Israel positively. Polls pretty consistently show a very strong majority of Jewish-Americans maintaining, by their own admission, a strong emotional support for the state of Israel.
Trump was not campaigning on stopping Gaza, but on explicitly making the genocide worse in support of Israel, which is a distinctly right-wing view. Furthermore, aside from the specifics of the foreign policy, it gave him a chance to, in typical fascist strongman fashion, beat his chest about how cruel he would be to brown people, which his racist, savage base adores. This is also why he pretended to be ‘hard on ISIS’ and then ignored the issue once he was actually in office. No one who voted for him actually fucking cared about ISIS - they just wanted to hear him talk about how he was going to murder Muslim families for the crime of being related to suspected terrorists.
Context matters. It’s one thing to be a hyperdedicated Zionist during peacetime; it’s another to be one during a genocide. People can see and act based on the difference.
Bruh, you and I both know that this genocide has been going on for decades. Furthermore, it’s not like this was a fucking secret, which is why I was so skeptical of claims early in 2024 that opinions were changing - mainstream media outlets in the 2010s reported on Israeli war crimes regularly, and Americans didn’t give a flying fuck. Seeing a Palestinian kid blown the fuck apart by an Israeli artillery strike was one of my first introductions to the issue on a more-than-surface level.
Also the narrative was almost entirely “vote blue no matter who” even among progressives.
… were we not on the same Lemmy? Fuck, man, mainstream outlets were reporting on such ‘cute’ nicknames as “Genocide Joe” and “Kamalacaust”, both centrist and left-wing American media outlets. There was clearly some amount of penetration of the far-left “Bothsides” narrative into the mainstream, especially since media outlets tend to be cautious in repeating such things.
If someone picked out the voice of dissent to listen too, then that’s because they liked what they heard, not because they were mindlessly led along by what they heard online.
… what the fuck is the difference between those two ideas?
At this point to even have a chance you’d need to eliminate all dissent, and even then it’s likely some of those people would simply become the dissent.
How would it require eliminating all dissent for a fraction of people who voted for Joe fucking Biden in 2020 to vote for someone less pro-genocide than Joe fucking Biden in 2024?
By all dissent I also mean Arab-Americans who were having friends and family murdered and just didn’t care anymore,
Apparently they didn’t care about themselves or the family and friends remaining in Gaza. But of course, there was also a plurality of Arab-Americans in Michigan, one of the most Arab-American states in the country, who voted for fucking Trump, so I don’t know how much water the “They were really worn out by Gaza and just couldn’t support someone who insufficiently opposed the genocide” argument carries.
anyone who follows global news with any frequency
Again, that’s not your ‘everyday, moderate voter’ in America.
and Republicans ready to exploit any political weaknesses in the Democrats’ position.
… aren’t we supposed to try to suppress the effects of their activity…?
People can have views from more than one point of the political spectrum. Every now and then on European communities you’ll see people with left-leaning views say something about immigrants taking their jobs, so yeah.
Alright, then that leads to the issue that non-Dem leaning voters were considerably less likely to be anti-Israel, and considerably more likely to be pro-Israel? Your average moderate was not fucking sitting there thinking about Gaza.
Y’all are still doing this? It was moderates who lost you the election, now stop crying about it.
I’m not saying the article doesn’t make some good points. But, much of it is self-contradictory. It says in the beginning of the article that we can rule out progressive appeals to voters as it was the more moderate voters that stayed home. By the end of the article its saying democrats need to appeal to voters by telling them how they will materially improve the lives of working people.
Focusing on how politics can improve lives of working people materially is literally a progressive appeal.
Definitely true; I’m only quoting the data.
That would require investigating the underlying reasons for election failure instead of the smug vibes-based ‘analysis’ that centrists prefer
the character in the comic is not a nonvoting democrat (the subject of your linked article).
I did not vote democrat because I am not a democrat and therefore not a nonvoting-democrat. The democrat party did not convince me to cast my vote for their candidate. Just like now I am not a republican either. I did not vote republican.
Democrats lost because they neglected to consider just how important it could have been for their candidate to fucking come out against israel. It’s all she had to do: promise to not send a single dime to genocidal fascists. she had years of opportunity to fight her own president for that kind of change too.
Look what we got “instead.” A fascist who supports genocide.
Both parties are very much the same: capitalist.
Even just staying silent on the issue would be enough to differentiate her from Biden for many. She couldn’t even avoid talking about how much she hated college students, but yet people act surprised those demographics didn’t go out to vote. Weird how insulting potential voters and explicitly telling them you don’t care about their vote leads to not getting their vote.
Given she avoided taking positions on most issues until the week of the election (other than to oppose healthcare and support fracking), I have a hard time believing someone in the campaign wasn’t intentionally trying to throw the election…
Propaganda.
(for the unaware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet))
huh. news to me. good to know. It would help, grammatically, if their party was not named after a concept/philosophy. It’s reminding me of “data are” vs “data is.”
though the democrats have been decidedly less democratic as of late, seems more like the acknowledgement of that fact then just a pejorative. if the shoe fits maybe they should do something about it.
But my punching bag!!
My, uh, totally not racist punching bag!
My not racist, not classist punching bag…!
Granted anyone who either didn’t vote but would have voted Dem, voted for trump because they were “on the fence” somehow, or chose to vote 3rd party but otherwise would’ve voted Dem contributed to this outcome.
That said, yeah the terminally online leftist vote is not what swung this election. I say that as a terminally online leftist who voted for killmala harmus anyway
Gaza nonvoters alone managed to put Trump in office, and that’s excluding the other ‘left’ issues
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That poll says nothing about non-voters
But also:
It literally fucking does, at the top, in big fucking letters.
Yes, there are multiple culprits, and the party is one of them. No one fucking here on Lemmy is questioning whether the Dem party is at fault, but half the fucking place seems to think that voters allowing fascism is just Fine, Actually, because it teaches the shitlibs a lesson at the expense of the lives of marginalized groups, whom they apparently don’t give a flying fuck about when it’s not Virtue Signaling Hour.
This is what I see:
To use one of your own phrases, “fucking what”
“Biden 2020 Voters Who Did Not Vote For Harris”
It’s literally in your fucking screenshot.
I’m sorry, is there some secret cabal of “Harris/the DNC did nothing wrong” posters that doesn’t come around here, or are you just extrapolating that position to anyone who dares say voters share some fucking blame for literally allowing fascism because it gave them good feelies?
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Which could mean a bunch of things, including the thing right next to it that I highlighted: “who cast a ballot for someone besides harris”
This is some next-level denial.
And it worked out great for Gaza!
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I’ve been told by nonvoters on here that they’d rather remain ‘pure’ than reduce Gazan deaths. So holsum! Such brave opponents of genocide!
Hey, happy cake day :)
And thank you for all you do and post
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Thanks!
It’s entirely true. They’re so high on their own
fartssense of self righteousness that it doesn’t matter. At least they didn’t betray Gaza. /sOkay and? When you have numbers nearly reaching 40%, what you’re looking at isn’t hyper-radical moral purity leftists; the majority of these people are almost certainly everyday people who also happen to have something resembling a conscience. There’s still no evidence to support a crusade against radical commies who ruined everything, which are clearly the people being addressed/mocked here. Unless you think 40% of Biden-voting non-voters in Arizona are Very Serious Leftists, in which case, uh… yeah.
The idea that ‘everyday people’ in the US are that interested in foreign affairs is not realistic. Foreign affairs are, unfortunately, almost purely the domain of the already-deeply politically involved, who tend not to be moderate ‘everyday people’.
Peddling narratives has consequences, yes, even online! Christ, I wish I still believed that online circlejerks didn’t affect REAL politics, but this is the post 2016 world we have the misfortune of living in, and especially the post-COVID world where traditional news media regurgitates whatever is loudest and latest in online media. The people saying things like “The Dems are just as bad as the GOP on Gaza! Don’t vote for KAMALACAUST!” were absolutely contributors to nonvoters, and especially nonvoters who had previously voted for Joe fucking Biden, of all people, but suddenly decided that HIS well-known and lifelong Zionism was a disqualifier for his V fucking P
If your view is that any anti-Israel policy in the US is moderate, you have a lot to learn about the US - unfortunately, all of it bad. Simply conditioning aid in the Democratic party was still a distinctly minority view as late as September in 2024, even though favorability of Israel had dropped lower than it’s ever been before.
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Occasionally foreign policy issues can filter to the wider electorate. See: Ukraine. See also: WWII. Trump certainly wasn’t campaigning on the issue because it’s something only lefties care about.
Context matters. It’s one thing to be a hyperdedicated Zionist during peacetime; it’s another to be one during a genocide. People can see and act based on the difference. Also the narrative was almost entirely “vote blue no matter who” even among progressives. If someone picked out the voice of dissent to listen too, then that’s because they liked what they heard, not because they were mindlessly led along by what they heard online. At this point to even have a chance you’d need to eliminate all dissent, and even then it’s likely some of those people would simply become the dissent. By all dissent I also mean Arab-Americans who were having friends and family murdered and just didn’t care anymore, anyone who follows global news with any frequency and Republicans ready to exploit any political weaknesses in the Democrats’ position.
People can have views from more than one point of the political spectrum. Every now and then on European communities you’ll see people with left-leaning views say something about immigrants taking their jobs, so yeah.
Very few people outside of the politically engaged core gave a serious shit about Ukraine even before the propaganda came pouring in through Fox and OANN, which is why Trump and the GOP becoming extremely hostile to Ukraine was done without a fucking peep from their base, and without much outcry from Democrats.
… the American electorate literally did not care about WW2 before we entered, and there was considerable opposition even to the limited aid offered by the FDR administration until Pearl Harbor. Like, even American national museums on WW2 and public schooling systems acknowledge this apathy.
Trump was campaigning on the issue because:
There is an extremely strong Israeli lobby in the US which distributes literal hundreds of millions of dollars to ‘supportive’ candidates.
There is a core of politically involved right-wingers in this country with strong foreign policy views. They are certainly not moderates or everyday people, which is what I specifically said; I did not restrict foreign policy interest to leftists, but to politicos.
Unfortunately, many Jews in this country, while formerly more Palestine-sympathetic than the general population (polls post Oct 7 have been mixed), still have a great emotional attachment to Israel and view support of Israel positively. Polls pretty consistently show a very strong majority of Jewish-Americans maintaining, by their own admission, a strong emotional support for the state of Israel.
Trump was not campaigning on stopping Gaza, but on explicitly making the genocide worse in support of Israel, which is a distinctly right-wing view. Furthermore, aside from the specifics of the foreign policy, it gave him a chance to, in typical fascist strongman fashion, beat his chest about how cruel he would be to brown people, which his racist, savage base adores. This is also why he pretended to be ‘hard on ISIS’ and then ignored the issue once he was actually in office. No one who voted for him actually fucking cared about ISIS - they just wanted to hear him talk about how he was going to murder Muslim families for the crime of being related to suspected terrorists.
Bruh, you and I both know that this genocide has been going on for decades. Furthermore, it’s not like this was a fucking secret, which is why I was so skeptical of claims early in 2024 that opinions were changing - mainstream media outlets in the 2010s reported on Israeli war crimes regularly, and Americans didn’t give a flying fuck. Seeing a Palestinian kid blown the fuck apart by an Israeli artillery strike was one of my first introductions to the issue on a more-than-surface level.
… were we not on the same Lemmy? Fuck, man, mainstream outlets were reporting on such ‘cute’ nicknames as “Genocide Joe” and “Kamalacaust”, both centrist and left-wing American media outlets. There was clearly some amount of penetration of the far-left “Bothsides” narrative into the mainstream, especially since media outlets tend to be cautious in repeating such things.
… what the fuck is the difference between those two ideas?
How would it require eliminating all dissent for a fraction of people who voted for Joe fucking Biden in 2020 to vote for someone less pro-genocide than Joe fucking Biden in 2024?
Apparently they didn’t care about themselves or the family and friends remaining in Gaza. But of course, there was also a plurality of Arab-Americans in Michigan, one of the most Arab-American states in the country, who voted for fucking Trump, so I don’t know how much water the “They were really worn out by Gaza and just couldn’t support someone who insufficiently opposed the genocide” argument carries.
Again, that’s not your ‘everyday, moderate voter’ in America.
… aren’t we supposed to try to suppress the effects of their activity…?
Alright, then that leads to the issue that non-Dem leaning voters were considerably less likely to be anti-Israel, and considerably more likely to be pro-Israel? Your average moderate was not fucking sitting there thinking about Gaza.