The Democrats’ stubborn refusal to learn from the campus protests
www.972mag.com
In Philadelphia and across the U.S., progressive young voters rejected that domestic priorities must be tied to a destructive policy abroad.
  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    9 months ago

    They learned they can force a protest to end by targeting protestors with non-government entities like college administrations.

  • CarlMarks@lemmygrad.ml
    4·
    9 months ago

    Democrats and university admins just ran a standard PR playbook. They depend on students’ naivete to succeed at it, and that worked. Several encampmentd accepted mere promises of consideration to disband while others got stronger concess but without them actually being in hand, which were easy to renege on.

    For campus protest to work against something as entrenched as Zionism, these lessons need to be learned and consistently passed on and there need to be strong ties to orgs outside the university that can provide seasoned advice.

    • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      9 months ago

      this is not true. Trump’s total votes barely went up, it was the Democrats total votes plummeted. Total voter turnout was way down, especially for Democrats. Things like this absolutely lead to disengagement from the political process, the media just ignores and downplays it

      2020 popular vote totals:

      Biden: 81,283,501

      Trump: 74,223,975

      Total: ~155 million

      2024 popular vote totals:

      Harris: 74,983,555

      Trump: 77,269,255

      Total: ~152 million

      Democrats lost 7 million votes while Trump only gained 3 million. Where did those 4 million people go? They stayed home because Democrats are liars and backstabbers who continually betray their own base and self sabotage.

        • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
          11·
          9 months ago

          The economy is going great and the genocide does not matter. Democrats did amazing as well but somehow Trump won. Who knows why. Must be the border bill Harris should have been tougher on immigration!

            • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
              5·
              9 months ago

              The protests also killed the youth turnout and all progressive activism. The people who are normally at the forefront of activism were now fighting against the Dems. Enthousiam was utterly dead for Democrats. The low turnout is all the evidence needed. People did not even feel like going out to vote Democrat as they do not believe it mattered.