corsicanguppy ,

They elected him. That's gonna show him.

nandeEbisu ,

So, it seems like the secret was the opposition parties actually campaigning on doing things the voters liked and addressing their concerns instead of belittling them. I agree, I think US politicians should also try actually appealing to disaffected voters to get them to vote against tyranny instead of lecturing them.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

You forgot the secret blue strategy:

Don't actually do anything when you can, because you don't actually want to.

Or, more fairly, have your razor thin margin of control be sabotaged relentlessly by corporate stooges and then do nothing about it.

CyanFen ,

Tl;dr: they voted

PhlubbaDubba ,

American and European Leftist heads exploding right now

BuT mUh ElEcToRaLiSm!

Speculater ,
@Speculater@lemmy.world avatar

If we could get blue voters to vote with the same fervor as the insane right (who vote at if their very existence is at stake) there would never be a red president or Congress again.

PhlubbaDubba ,

If we could do that Bernie would have won the primary easily.

The insane right's electoral strategy is to threaten primaries, not the general.

Threatening the primaries makes you a credible electoral threat who's positions should be considered and if possible appealed to.

Threatening the general makes you a moron who obviously cares more about feeling validated than you do about achieving any policy goals since you're literally declaring your intent to hand the contest to the guy who's even less likely to give you anything you want.

hark ,
@hark@lemmy.world avatar

There was the uncommitted movement for the democratic primaries, but democrats screamed and shat their pants in anger over people daring to challenge party unity. Reminder that these uncommitted votes were just to send the message that biden should stop supporting genocide which should really be a no-brainer and even then democrats threw a fit. The political parties have their primary processes clamped down and completely controlled. If trump threatened the moneyed interests at all, he would've been shut down during the party primaries like Bernie was.

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