The problem is that when leftists don’t vote, the Democrats look at the data analytics and they see fewer leftists and more centrists. If you didn’t vote, they think you’re a centrist. They’re gonna go rightwards to try to get you to vote for them. So if you’re a neutral voter, you’re accountable for the rightward shift in the Overton window.
But the party can see when voters leave their party and register with other parties. They can see people fleeing the Democratic Party and registering for parties like the Green Party or the California Peace & Freedom Party or just registering as Independent. They have access to this data. It sends a message.
Well I think it’s a problem, but I can see how someone who is pro-genocide would see it as useful. Personally, I think we should be taking it into account in our decisions. Ignoring and praising it helps the fascists.
True but this process only works to a point when they’ve lost so many such voters that they keep losing elections the more centrist/right they go. I think we’re somewhere around, perhaps just past that point as of the last prez election. Once that crisis is reached, either it’s handled internally by alternative ideas - like running leftist candidates, or externally by having independent leftists candidates beat D candidates in elections. If Trump’s admin wasn’t such an abject failure at delivering what it promised, we probably wouldn’t be talking about D midterm wins. A midterm victory would prolly give a false sense of recovery for Ds but should they continue business as usual (and they likely will) we’ll be back in crisis soon after. Perhaps not too dissimilar to Kier Starmer’s approval trajectory.
Well, no. That whole argument rests on one crucial assumption: that the people in charge of interpreting the analytics want to win. They don’t. Those people work for big business, and are being paid to tell the Democrats a lie that persuades them to make bad choices and lose. That way, the Rs win and pass business friendly laws.
You can’t rely on the Democrats doing a decent job interpreting the analytics. You’re overestimating them.
The problem is that when leftists don’t vote, the Democrats look at the data analytics and they see fewer leftists and more centrists. If you didn’t vote, they think you’re a centrist. They’re gonna go rightwards to try to get you to vote for them. So if you’re a neutral voter, you’re accountable for the rightward shift in the Overton window.
But the party can see when voters leave their party and register with other parties. They can see people fleeing the Democratic Party and registering for parties like the Green Party or the California Peace & Freedom Party or just registering as Independent. They have access to this data. It sends a message.
That’s not a problem that’s a feature
Well I think it’s a problem, but I can see how someone who is pro-genocide would see it as useful. Personally, I think we should be taking it into account in our decisions. Ignoring and praising it helps the fascists.
True but this process only works to a point when they’ve lost so many such voters that they keep losing elections the more centrist/right they go. I think we’re somewhere around, perhaps just past that point as of the last prez election. Once that crisis is reached, either it’s handled internally by alternative ideas - like running leftist candidates, or externally by having independent leftists candidates beat D candidates in elections. If Trump’s admin wasn’t such an abject failure at delivering what it promised, we probably wouldn’t be talking about D midterm wins. A midterm victory would prolly give a false sense of recovery for Ds but should they continue business as usual (and they likely will) we’ll be back in crisis soon after. Perhaps not too dissimilar to Kier Starmer’s approval trajectory.
Well, no. That whole argument rests on one crucial assumption: that the people in charge of interpreting the analytics want to win. They don’t. Those people work for big business, and are being paid to tell the Democrats a lie that persuades them to make bad choices and lose. That way, the Rs win and pass business friendly laws.
You can’t rely on the Democrats doing a decent job interpreting the analytics. You’re overestimating them.