They at least sometimes turn out. This mythical progressive voter (and indeed in blue as the ocean Cali where the climate die hard just lost) doesn’t seem to ever find a candidate worthy of getting off the couch for except once in a blue moon.
I find it pretty incredulous to argue that Democrats meeting people where theyre at is a bad thing. And again, this is in California…
In my mind, it would be way easier to energize your own base than it is to convince people that prefer your opponent to vote for you. It’s not the “left’s fault” that Democrats keep failing to enact meaningful change.
You’re not “the base” if you only show up haphazardly. The “centrists” everyone despises are the base. That’s why they continually win primaries, etc.
I’d love for more left leaning candidates to win but until people turn out, they won’t. Can’t expect great candidates to fall from the sky. People actually need to put the work in and they clearly don’t.
They at least sometimes turn out. This mythical progressive voter (and indeed in blue as the ocean Cali where the climate die hard just lost) doesn’t seem to ever find a candidate worthy of getting off the couch for except once in a blue moon.
I find it pretty incredulous to argue that Democrats meeting people where theyre at is a bad thing. And again, this is in California…
In my mind, it would be way easier to energize your own base than it is to convince people that prefer your opponent to vote for you. It’s not the “left’s fault” that Democrats keep failing to enact meaningful change.
You’re not “the base” if you only show up haphazardly. The “centrists” everyone despises are the base. That’s why they continually win primaries, etc.
I’d love for more left leaning candidates to win but until people turn out, they won’t. Can’t expect great candidates to fall from the sky. People actually need to put the work in and they clearly don’t.
I guess it’s a good thing then that ProgressiveVictory is proving that there is a genuine left base to activate.