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I'm sure they've focus tested this and yes it is the most important issue, I think they have too much faith in the American voter.
I can easily see Independents or frustrated Democrats thinking "we were warned ad nauseum about a fascist takeover by trump last time and it didn't happen and inflation is killing me..."
I think trump's threats to democracy is the most serious issue but I can't see this winning many new voters. Maybe the hope is to increase turnout on our side...
What about climate change lol?
Donald subverting democracy would be a much more immediate threat and make climate change almost impossible to deal with. One has to be avoided to deal with the other and is thus the higher priority.
No matter who wins, the US will pump and burn more oil than the year before. It's far too late for lesser of two evils politics, my friend.
the US will pump and burn more oil than the year before.
Possibly. But, the US will also be on a course to lower emissions in the long term.
The Inflation Reduction Act was the most significant piece of climate change legislation in American history. If that goes uninterrupted, so many new battery, solar and other green projects will continue. It's imperfect but we have a chance (not a guarantee) with the Democrats and none with trump.
And frankly, in North America, most of climate change for the foreseeable future is more inconvenience than it is "societal collapse."
We'll see, I spose
I remember watching V for Vendetta when Obama was president and I actually can't believe the US went from the Obama era to being on the brink of becoming a christofascist nation.
For as long as Democrats continue to run lukewarm candidates and Republicans populists with actual support, this will continue to be the case.
Do you blame the scorpion or the toad for trusting it? It is entirely the Democrats fault that things are as bad as they are.
Any attempt by the Democrats to do anything tends to be blocked by the Republicans. Anything more serious starts threatening their party support.
The problem is the following loop:
With lies, grifting, and general ignorance easier to spread than the complexity of truth, Republicans always hold an inherent advantage by appealing to the lowest common denominator.
Democrats make a mistake of trying to appeal to these special "centrists" and conservatives as if resurrecting Reagan himself under the D label would ever pull them over.
Because of watering down their policy (and thus effficacy) they ostracize their own grassroots base that does the groundwork in phonebanking, protesting, canvassing, and perhaps most importantly -- pushing back against nutjobs on social media and pushing back against their parents, aunts, uncles at Thanksgiving dinner.
And Democrats wonder why Democrat voter enthusiasm is always so low.
If Democrats for once campaigned on a platform they believed in; if they actually wholeheartedly backed a candidate who had a science-based, equality-based platform from a position of sincerity -- that would be contagious.
Republicans win by fear and hatred; Democrats can't win by that. It needs to be surrounded by love, vision, and solidarity.