• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Its not the politicians. They are what they always have been. The r voters are consistently for their candidate. The dem voters are being bothered by things like their bellybutton lint. These people are what will lose the midterms and the next one.

    • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      14 days ago

      What a joke. The economy has been on a several decade long systemic decline and the Democrats have consistently affirmed that they will do nothing to change that. They don’t run on what voters want, so they lose. The people calling for reform who try to work with the establishment are not listened to, so they lose.

      On the other hand, do you know why Republicans won with Trump? It was not because of the single issue voters who have stuck with them for decades, as all they did was get every Republican on their side. Trump won because he appealed to grievance, pointing out the obvious fact that the system didn’t work and offering fake solutions that only made everything worse. Neoliberalism rotted this country’s foundations, and Trump only took a sledgehammer to the rotten wood.

      What truly bends the will of voters is economics, and Democrats had the weaker message. This might seem wrong from a rational perspective, but voters were never rational beings who understand how the world works. All these voters can recognize is that things are bad, not why they are bad. They know that Trump offered more change, socialism for fools, and that sounded far more appealing than a Clinton or a coastal elite.

      Live in delusion that non-voters are to blame all you want, but it only weakens the Democrats to not blame themselves for their failure.