• BillyTheKid@lemmy.ca
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    16 hours ago

    The democrats are objectively better for the majority of the population. Science has a liberal bias and all that.

    What many of the dem leaders and commentors are missing is that’s not enough. Blaming and shaming people online, even if you’re right which as I covered you objectively are, isn’t going to win the election. A lot of people voted for Trump because they feel left out and unheard. Maybe they should be, after all some of them hold dangerous ideas like climate change denial or think giving underrepresented people’s a chance is unfair.

    But that’s just not enough. Being right isn’t enough. Pointing out their idiocy only serves to entrench them and scare away moderates. You might say, not voting means they’re dumb, right or wrong that comment doesn’t help your cause. Being objectively correct didn’t win the last election. Until the democrats acknowledge that optics are more import than correctness they’re going to fight an uphill battle. A very steep one.

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      commentors are missing is that’s not enough.

      They may get that. Commenters are more often not the Democrats (their leadership, strategists, or establishment), they may get that, and they may think their leftist peers who couldn’t work out 2 + 2 = 4 are a problem, too. Figuring their chances of reaching the DNC on here are remote, they may engage the last problem not as part of some Democrat strategy (which they aren’t a part of), but because they’re a regular human trying to reach their fellow, idiot human.

      Addressing human failings may be a futile waste of energy but ignoring them entirely isn’t doing much good. Some think change begins by holding ourselves accountable where we fail. The least we can do is try to be right. None of this is part of a party strategy: it’s humans trying to get humans to human better.

      You’re right it’s not enough, and those with power to do enough aren’t. The problems with society & political culture are manifold.

      optics are more import

      It’s more than optics: actions, delivering more effective government that noticeably eases our lives, reinvigorating local organizations & alliances that draw power to the party. A problem with Democrats may be an excessive concern with appearances & blanding their message so much to appease everyone (all purists) that it moves no one.