I’m going to follow OP’s example and just post memes about it.

When Democrats are in office, they delay *some* of the Republican agenda (temporally) but do not address these larger issues.

A super majority is required to address these issues anyone pretending otherwise is being disingenuous or has been tricked into ignorance.

Even when we get a blue majority, there are always a couple of Democrats that impede progress.

Those examples are of people voting against the Democratic Party. But you conveniently group them with the democrats they vote against.

Some specific examples of people who voted with republicans is Sinema and Fetterman. Both of which ran as progressives. According to your logic we should be blaming all progressives for their actions and using it as an excuse to let Trump take over the world.

The fact of the matter is that the GOP will run their own candidates as democrats to get in office in districts that are blue then their candidate will vote against the Democratic Party. For example, Manchin. The GOP will then leverage this to claim both sides are the same and trick leftists into letting the government move further right by not voting. This works on leftists who are too oblivious to notice that these “democrats” are voting against the Democratic Party.

So now we have far right extremists running all parts of the government because leftists have been tricked so easily into believing that both sides are the same by the GOP and foreign bots that benefit from Trump being in office.

If leftists are so significant that we influence elections, then pass progressive legislation.

Everyone is significant enough to influence elections.

Not enough voters want progressive legislation, we can prove this with election results.

Being pro-democracy means voting for the lesser of 2 evils when your legislation isn’t popular enough to get passed.

The GOP has a history of easily tricking leftists into not voting.

Leftists were tricked into not voting for Harris because of Palestine and now Trump is building a new resort on Gaza beach.

How is the dude with the equivalent charm of a vomiting donkey in charge?

Because leftists post memes instead of voting?

Or maybe there just isn’t enough leftists voters, even if all the internet warriors vote?

That’s what the election results indicate at least.

I agree it isn’t the only factor but it is a big one. Also, Trump had billionaires doing things off the books like Elon paying people to vote.

Sounds like you’re claiming politicians dont accept bribes. Which is verifiably false.

They can pay before or after, if the politician doesn’t follow through on their end wealthy people have other ways to make them pay.

Or maybe the word gets out that a particular politician isn’t delivering. With the resources that the wealthy have they can run a smear campaign and ruin that politicians career.

Not to mention Clarence Thomas was bribed by letting him use a super yacht. If he didn’t follow through on his end the owner could just not let him use the yacht anymore.

There are many ways to skin this cat.

Money is used to change perceptions before the election. That is why so much is spent on campaigns. It is also used for bribery. Elon will use his money in any way possible to get what he wants.

I didn’t say it “has to be that way”.

Seattle is in a blue state. Like New York, it doesn’t mirror the voting of the rest of the country.

We need to win in purple/red states to change our trajectory.

Progressives lost to AIPAC funded candidates.

New York doesn’t mirror the voting of the rest of the country.

Money still wins elections. Don’t be complacent.

I didn’t see Chuck Schumer on the list of 8 democrats that voted against party lines for the government shutdown. But he seems to be getting blamed for it here on lemmy.

Left and right is a spectrum of ideology.

In the US that spectrum doesn’t exist to the left of democrats. It ends at democrats.

Those cops, zionists and republicans are also a part of our democracy and they have a vote. Leftists consistently lose elections for not considering this.

Democrats tried to be less moderate in 2016 and 2024 and lost because of it. Which is expected because leftists can’t win elections.

The problem with that approach is you do all the work for the GOP propaganda machine every time you argue against a democratic candidate.

So by the time your revolution fails, your campaign gets weaponized by the GOP. Everything negative you had to say about the democrat candidate is now being said by the GOP. And it’s super effective at convincing some democratic voters to stay home because it’s the same talking points used by their own party.

Instead of trying to discourage voters from choosing democrats, leftists should just say why voters should chose the leftist and accept the results when voters choose the moderate option.

India Walton, Nina Turner?

Won the primary. Lost the election.

Not even a little

Or elections

Leftists aren’t winning elections.

Dems tried to cater to leftists in 2016 and 2024 and lost as a result.

The majority of Americans don’t want leftist politicians as we can see with election results.

Leftists are forcing Dems to the right by giving the elections to Trump

They’ve literally won the majority of elections since the 90s by appealing to moderates. They lost in 2024 because Russia had a war at stake and billionaires didn’t want to get taxed. Add in inflation from the pandemic and you have a tough campaign to win.

The argument that democrats can’t win without the left is not based on reality.

Dems tried to appeal to leftist and they screeched “genicide Joe” until Trump won.

Meanwhile republicans won because voters to the right of leftist know the importance of not shitting on the candidate they want to win.

Splitting the only opposition to the Republican Party during a coup is a guaranteed benefit to the GOP.

That’s what you are arguing for.

You want me to apologize for pointing out the cause and effect of what you’re asking for?

Sounds like you’re warming up for the next election when you’ll be trying to convince people not to vote or vote 3rd party.

Dems have won the majority of elections since the 90s. Biden/Harris lost because of inflation.

Republicans lost by waaay more in 2020. If they followed your mentality they would’ve lost in 2024. Instead they doubled down and won.