/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
What’s a false narrative? That Democrats lost because their base stayed home? Because that’s exactly what happened.
Democrats can ruin their election chances if they piss off their base. They will stay home if they get pissed off enough.
Did you forget what happened in the last election? They lost because they pissed off their base.
You can’t just scream at the base and call them stupid and demand they vote for Democrats. You have to appeal to them or they will stay home, like they did in the most recent election. That’s just how politics works. If Democrats keep doing this shit, they’ll lose.
Then what happened in this last election? It wasn’t the middle that swung the election for Trump, it was the millions of people who previously voted for Biden last time and stayed home this time. Shitting on the base is how Democrats lose.
Voting “no” would be used to smear them among the Republican base… who would never vote for them anyway. Who cares?
Voting “yes” is now going to hurt them among the Democratic base, and if you recall they lost the last election because they pissed off their own base! In what world is pissing off their own base the “least bad option”? That’s how they always lose!
If it’s completely irrelevant and has no impact, why vote for it? All they accomplished was making us mad at them, they walked right into the Republican trap and not a single Republican voter is going to vote for Democrats because of this vote.
The numbers show that fewer Democrats turned out in 2024 than in 2020. Something happened. Was that entirely because of ads? Was nothing going on at the time that would anger the Democratic base?