I’ve combed through the statistics for the 2024 election multiple times. Just check my profile.
The uncommitted movement were some 700,000 strong. Those numbers were on par with RFK’s votes since he didn’t pull out of the race by the time he endorsed Trump.
Democrats lost voters in 2024, despite the eligible voting pool increasing. Republicans gain voters ofc.
Why are you focusing on the voters when it’s the politician’s job to CONVINCE voters they’re worth voting for? And are we forgetting the awful transition by Biden to Kamala, where she had 3 months to campaign? Are we forgetting how Biden said he’d be a transition candidate, that he wouldn’t run for a second term but then did so anyway to the surprise of his staff?
We could have held a primary where the American people could have at least had the impression that they were engaging in Democracy (only for the DNC to pick their favorite anyways).
Pleaseeeeeee stop blaming voters. You’re repeating the cycle where those in power never have to change.
I won’t stop blaming politicians that just sit there and expect to be spoonfed perfect votes like toddlers, instead of understanding that people’s needs and wants change over time as shit happens in the world.
Wages have stagnated. Civil liberties are being restricted. Immigration sucks now, where empires live or die by import of not only goods but laborers that fire up the economy. Harassment is on the rise, especially in cyberspace where there are no protections. Infrastructure is either crumbling or insufficient for how people want to live. Smog, pollution, and greenhouse gases are jeopardizing our future. People are having less children which will surely fuck up the economy at some point for those that age out of the workforce. Corporations control law and order beyond what science and research tells us. Privacy is eroding. There are TONS of issues that politicians could run on to galvanize non-voters, and yes anti-genocide is one of those.
Democrats on the other hand would rather uphold existing institutions, however neololiberal they are, and chase after Republicans than run on popular, leftist policies.
If Democrats don’t do what their constituents want, they will continue to lose elections. I think people want change, and I don’t think Dems (or MAGAts) are willing to give that. The politicians must change. We shouldn’t have to settle with mediocre, half baked centrism when we are now seeing the Right completely undermine and shock the existing system. Why can’t Democrats do the same, but in the other direction?