Only in the US the double standard exist where 1 party can be a racist bigoted piece of shit and win the presidency and the other side can only win if they cater to that section lowkey as well. And then at the same time people constantly talk down minorities on them feeling getting fucked by the DNC over and over and over and over and over and over and over. But it's all good cause at the end of the there is no choice but to vote for the person that isn't an openly racist bigoted piece of shit. USA!
I mean...yes, yes it sort of is. This is the landscape we have to deal with right now. You have to figure out how to get the votes. Right now the way the system is set up, for a variety of reasons, you have to get votes across a spectrum from center to left and even a little center-right. There are ways to
fix that. DC and Puerto Rico statehood and reinforced federal voting protections are big parts of that, which is why I'm glad to see that they're not off the table with Biden because they're the single most impactful things the Ds could do with their early control if they win in November, but until then you do need to find the votes wherever you can get them.
Bernie's entire strategy was based around activating traditional non-voters, and he ran one of the best, most dedicated efforts at it that I've ever seen. It didn't work, the turnout wasn't there, and I don't blame anyone who looks at those results, who looks at the results of the last several elections, and says "okay how do we build our strategy around who's going to actually be at the polls in November?". If you do that part of your strategy does become not scaring off a lot of the centrist types in a country where our ethical framework has been so fucked since inception that centrism comes with an implicit racism
I'm not happy about this. But at the very least the party as a whole seems to be behind things like DC statehood that will, over time, make this less of an issue. This is maybe the most impactful election of our lives because of that. This is where stuff can start to change, if we make them actually do it. We can make progress on it. But I don't see how you change it in three months. I just don't