• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    (Et al.)… providing rebukes of positions and stances they’ve been vehemently screaming about for 7 months at this rate. Also many of these people have provided direct condemnations of the people they need to build their ground game. They’re trying to build their ground game through hiring- I don’t think this will work.

    100% on both points. Its why I’m now effectively arguing for a yet identified 3rd party candidate. I think Jon Stewart could win. And to your second point, spending on elections has become utterly detached from outcomes. If everything is advertising, then nothing is advertising. You can’t buy elections with ad-dollars any more. Grass roots organizing works because you create evangelists by empowering them to do your work for you. Bernies approach started in 2015 is still paying dividends. The approach has staying power. I think even if Biden goes ass over tea kettle, if the next nominee doesn’t pivot, they also will not win.

    Now to oppose this point… It looks like Trump might end up being a convicted felon and possibly in jail? I mean this truly is a race to the bottom in terms of voter disenfranchisement. I don’t know what this does to his chances. I don’t know if Romney throws his hat in the race at that point. Maybe DeSantis hops back in? Hell Trump could suffer a massive heart attack any moment with the stress he’s under. What happens then?

    There are still a lot of unknowns this far out. But its clear to me that Democrats have destroyed the Democratic party for decades to come. If we can survive this cycle, its time to build that third party out of millennials and GenZ