4th December 2019, 9:44 AM
That's the same talking point I've heard before, but it falls flat when you remember that the Democrat's strategy has always been to try to reach over the aisle by weakening or flat out abandoning liberal policies. They're ALREADY weakening themselves ABF, right now, during the campaign. You've got Buttigeg flat out lying about health care and trying to ruin support for college for all by saying "I don't want to pay for rich people's kids to go to college" (AOC tore that argument apart piece by piece already, but point is he's running ads using that talking point right now).
If your only argument is that allowing independents to vote would cause candidates to swing to the right- they already are! They have been! And that pressure's there because when the election arrives it's the whole country that needs to vote. Here's how to counter that. Swing voters on the issues, not the candidates. Win them over by convincing them the policies are ones that benefit them rather than trying to claim you're "actually" in support of republican policies and making issues that the left base have been rooting for for years sound like pipe dreams.
Don't abandon the left to win over the right, make the right WANT what the left wants! Frankly, this is the strategy Republicans have been using for decades now, and it WORKS. There are a couple of candidates the dems have right now that are pushing for progressive policies and they have incredible support among the young people. The one flaw with the polls I've seen is they aren't tapping that group of people that traditionally don't vote, and that's the mistake the pollsters made last cycle. You get a firey base excited about things- and that's going to spread to a group that didn't vote because they didn't see themselves represented. Trump latched onto non-voting racists and xenophobes and made them into voters. What is the lesson here?
If your only argument is that allowing independents to vote would cause candidates to swing to the right- they already are! They have been! And that pressure's there because when the election arrives it's the whole country that needs to vote. Here's how to counter that. Swing voters on the issues, not the candidates. Win them over by convincing them the policies are ones that benefit them rather than trying to claim you're "actually" in support of republican policies and making issues that the left base have been rooting for for years sound like pipe dreams.
Don't abandon the left to win over the right, make the right WANT what the left wants! Frankly, this is the strategy Republicans have been using for decades now, and it WORKS. There are a couple of candidates the dems have right now that are pushing for progressive policies and they have incredible support among the young people. The one flaw with the polls I've seen is they aren't tapping that group of people that traditionally don't vote, and that's the mistake the pollsters made last cycle. You get a firey base excited about things- and that's going to spread to a group that didn't vote because they didn't see themselves represented. Trump latched onto non-voting racists and xenophobes and made them into voters. What is the lesson here?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)