Republicans are not just democrats who haven’t been appeased enough yet.
Adopting republican policy will not get republicans to vote for democrats. But it will drive off democrats.
A democrat cannot win like that.
The voters you have before you will not vote in sufficient numbers for some genocidal corpodem. If you want to win more than you want genocide, you know where to start.
Cool logic, really. And I wish now more than ever that it was a logic based in reality. However, voting patterns consistently show kind of the opposite. People who agree with you don’t show up to polls, consistently. The only people who vote in all elections seem to be people who’re afraid of good ideas.
Those are, coinsidentally, the people who don’t spend their life online telling each other how important it is not to vote.
Republicans are not just democrats who haven’t been appeased enough yet.
Adopting republican policy will not get republicans to vote for democrats. But it will drive off democrats.
A democrat cannot win like that.
The voters you have before you will not vote in sufficient numbers for some genocidal corpodem. If you want to win more than you want genocide, you know where to start.
Cool logic, really. And I wish now more than ever that it was a logic based in reality. However, voting patterns consistently show kind of the opposite. People who agree with you don’t show up to polls, consistently. The only people who vote in all elections seem to be people who’re afraid of good ideas.
Those are, coinsidentally, the people who don’t spend their life online telling each other how important it is not to vote.
If you only chase people who already vote, you won’t get any more voters than you already have. And you keep losing with what you already have.
The party needs to stop treating Republicans as gettable votes and start treating disaffected nonvoters as gettable votes.
I’m not encouraging people not to vote. The party’s behavior does that. They need to change if they want to win.