The perpetual advice to Democrats is that moving rightward will solve all their problems. But look where the party is at the moment: already embracing Republican affect and policies, yet still losing.
And that is why the us is no longer a democracy, if someone is right wing leaning they are going to vote for the republicans, but if they are not then they are forced to vote for the “not as bad” party. Issue to me is, every time someone has to swallow their convictions and vote for the lesser evil they get a a bit more disgruntled. After so many years of being worn down, combined with low wages and higher costs of living people start to check out or vote for the worst out of spite.
Big tent politics always seem to fail, the parties that do this tend to lose a coherent platform. Issue with the states is that unlike other nations there is only the two parties, and no realistic way to have another. So now the states had evil and evil lite teams instead of like anywhere else where the dems would have been pushed out by a actual left.
And that is why the us is no longer a democracy, if someone is right wing leaning they are going to vote for the republicans, but if they are not then they are forced to vote for the “not as bad” party. Issue to me is, every time someone has to swallow their convictions and vote for the lesser evil they get a a bit more disgruntled. After so many years of being worn down, combined with low wages and higher costs of living people start to check out or vote for the worst out of spite.
Big tent politics always seem to fail, the parties that do this tend to lose a coherent platform. Issue with the states is that unlike other nations there is only the two parties, and no realistic way to have another. So now the states had evil and evil lite teams instead of like anywhere else where the dems would have been pushed out by a actual left.