Nope! Just reading your hobby horse in the tea leaves! Fundamentals! Argle bargle conventional wisdom from decades ago!
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Voters viewed Harris as too far left, Harris outperformed Bernie, and etc. thereās no serious reason to think Harris wins if she goes hard left
Elections arenāt decided on issues anyways afaict
Not sure if I completely understand your post, but you realize that Harris and Sanders ran against each other in a recent election, donāt you?
Republican voters viewed her as too far left. When you keep repeating to your base that the other side are radical left communists over and over and over again, they start believing it
Weāll never know what the results of a true progressive agenda would be because every Democratic presidential candidate eventually gets pulled to the right
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Harris was thought of by too left by the general electorate
In a general election? No they didnāt.
Close to 90 million eligible voters didnāt vote in 2024, so I guess weāll never know. But my guess is, if a progressive candidate would keep pounding on the fact that gluttonous corporations and billionaires are the enemy of the people the way Trump pounds on the media, Trump loses in a landslide
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Problem is the low info and low propensity voters voted Trump.
The saving grace here is that I donāt actually think issues matter. People largely make up their minds first then fill in positions later.
What you canāt do honestly is use this election to say the electorate yearns for the one true lefty. It decidedly does not say that
Kamalaās policies as-is were substantially more popular than Trumpās when divorced from the candidate. Trumpās policies were so unpopular that his voters were rationalizing that either they wouldnāt come to be or that they wouldnāt be affected.
She failed because she failed to beat a cult of personality with a massive online media empire behind him which has been touting him as the lord and savior nonstop since 2015. Thereās zero reason to believe she would have won if she had only adopted a few more lefty policies.
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Every podcast I listen to is orgasmically searching for these morons who are super pro choice but voted Trump. Super pro civil rights but voted Trump. Voted Trump then blue down ticket.
Letās examine them and their motives. What could be driving this shift. How interesting they are. What deep analysis could have driven them to this choice.
They are low information absolute morons. Stop pretending they are more.
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Turns out you need their votes to win, tho.
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Sure but letās all stop pretending they are more than people so stupid as to not understand even the most basic aspects of American politics. They are basically voting with the depth of analysis they use when they call into American idol.
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You think their votes are purely stochastic and thus are unpursuadable? That would be a blistering hot take.
Of course they are persuadable. They have no idea why they voted the way they did other than āTrump make bad stuff good again.ā
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Seems like a good thing to investigate!
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Calling them low info morons is a great way to persuade them!
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Itās actually probably less.
Still great though. I might steal this.
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I donāt understand the point of posts like this. We all know this. Calling them low info morons on unstuck is completely different and fine.
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I honestly donāt think itās about adopting policies, but rather, pounding on peopleās fears, which is the one thing Trump does well. First, he creates the grievancesā¦
-The enemy of the people
-The radical fascist left
-You wonāt have a country anymore
-Insane rapists and killers are coming in by the millions
-Theyāre eating the dogs
Then he just pounds this into their feeble brains over and over. The Democrats need to do the same thing only with multi billion dollar corporations and oligarchs. You donāt court them, you demonize them
People are more apt to vote out of fear than they are of any one policy imo
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