Democratic Party leaders want the benefits of an engaged activist base like the one currently challenging Donald Trump without actually having to listen to or engage with it.
Not the wrong game, there are just too many people that bounce between parties, or that sit out/vote 3rd party if their unicorn candidate isn’t on the top of the ticket. If you could get everyone that doesn’t want fascism to vote Dem at the top of the ticket every 4 yrs, and get them to also vote for and encourage more progressive candidates to run at all the lower levels we could see a change. And get enough progressive candidates running as Dems at all the lower levels, maybe we even see a decent Presidential candidate.
It’s easier for Republicans to rally around taking things away from people, it’s much harder to run a functional country, with everyone having equal rights, and income equality, and everything else that would better the lives of Americans.
Not the wrong game, there are just too many people that bounce between parties, or that sit out/vote 3rd party if their unicorn candidate isn’t on the top of the ticket. If you could get everyone that doesn’t want fascism to vote Dem at the top of the ticket every 4 yrs, and get them to also vote for and encourage more progressive candidates to run at all the lower levels we could see a change. And get enough progressive candidates running as Dems at all the lower levels, maybe we even see a decent Presidential candidate.
It’s easier for Republicans to rally around taking things away from people, it’s much harder to run a functional country, with everyone having equal rights, and income equality, and everything else that would better the lives of Americans.
Well, I can’t do that so I’ll just keep voting and watching the world burn around me because everyone else is a fucking idiot.