wet forest moon folklorist
"if #biden loses its the fault of young apathetic voters"
since you all keep trying to sell this car, let's check under the hood...
- unlikely voters skew young, low wage, BIPOC -- people who are often excluded from economic stability due to low wages, housing insecurity, student and medical debt, and the need to care for under resourced family and friends
- the hypothetical privileged young leftists this theory demonizes are statistically irrelevant, stop hating ghosts
wet forest moon folklorist
There are candidates who do electrify unlikely voters with the urgency and messaging of their campaigns. They typically take up popular issues polls show large majorities of Americans support, such as climate or universal healthcare.
But whether it's Jesse Jackson, AOC, or Bernie Sanders, what these left populist candidates have in common is that the Democratic party establishment marshals truly extraordinary resources to defeat them, sometimes demonstrably more than they do for the GOP
wet forest moon folklorist
The Electoral College
The "young voters are the problem" theorists tend to focus on the Gore and HRC losses, but both of those candidates won the national popular vote.
Why would we spend decades demonizing young, low wage, and BIPOC Americans, rather than working together to advance the Interstate Compact for a National Popular Vote? Maybe we should ask the DNC...
wet forest moon folklorist
Some recent data:
- Candidates who appeal to the Dem base and leverage that appeal into popular organizing win. Obama campaigned on proactive change, people responded by signing up to organize and turning out to vote.
- Candidates who disavow their base and avoid empowering regular people to organize, lose. Hillary contracted a troll army to smear Sanders supporters, and avoided organizing key Midwest states despite organizers begging the campaign to show up.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/michigan-hillary-clinton-trump-232547
wet forest moon folklorist
If i'm running a restaurant, it's not going to help me to blame potential customers for not coming in, if they prefer food from a different restaurant. I can feel upset and resentful all I want to, but the way for me to get those customers into my place is to cook them up food that they want to eat.
Organizing political victory is a lot more effective when you have food on the table your base is hungry for.
wet forest moon folklorist
Blaming the youngs for electing trump, eating too much avocado toast, being on your lawn, is called "scapegoating" -- a practice of eliminating critical thinking in favor of picking an easy target to burn at the stake.
More complex to think on how the Dems reacted to Reagan's racist win by taking up his dog whistle for white voters who don't want the safety net extended down to the pigmented classes (centrism). this agenda worked well for the corporations too (neoliberalism) and so here we are
Camille lives at Praxis Now
@seachanger
Also, the issue isn't a matter of "eat at this restaurant or DIE of starvation" like they try to make it seem. The fact of the matter is that people could die of starvation with ANY OF THOSE PEOPLE staffing the grill and serving full plates of what they have to offer.
These people have NO CLUE what to serve to truly nourish people...and frankly they don't care.
Ross B Voted Yes
@seachanger …betrays the values underpinning the Democrats and how conservative they really are. Not that I would ever advocate a vote for the GOP.
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