Biden is struggling with younger voters and Muslim Americans over his handling of the Israel-Hamas war, recent polling by NBC News and Quinnipiac University shows
This ignores the fact that the country is to the left of Democratic leadership, by far, on issues polling. Sure, if our choice was between right-wing neoliberal Democrats and fascist Republicans, it wouldn’t be a contest. And in the general elections, that’s usually about what we get. But these arguments are used, disingenuously, to convince primary voters to support right-wing Democrats, who actually do worse against fascist Republicans, by far. It’s a losing strategy, and it’s designed to be a losing strategy, because right-wing capitalist Democrats are more interested in suppressing their own party’s left wing, than in fighting the country’s radical right. They’re more motivated by maintaining power than by preventing the collapse of American democracy. We have to vote for the best viable candidate in the general election, even if that candidate is a capitalist extremist Democrat, but we should be doing everything we can to remove them in the primaries, not just in spite of the general election stakes, but because of the general election stakes.
EDITED: Changed “issues voting” to “issues polling”
This ignores the fact that the country is to the left of Democratic leadership, by far, on issues polling.
Weird that people consistently don’t vote for these things in their districts then.
National polling doesn’t mean much except in the race for the Presidency. I assure you that WV voters like Joe Manchin a shitload more than they like Bernie Sanders.
You don’t have to like that (I certainly don’t) but it is very true.
This ignores the fact that the country is to the left of Democratic leadership, by far, on issues polling. Sure, if our choice was between right-wing neoliberal Democrats and fascist Republicans, it wouldn’t be a contest. And in the general elections, that’s usually about what we get. But these arguments are used, disingenuously, to convince primary voters to support right-wing Democrats, who actually do worse against fascist Republicans, by far. It’s a losing strategy, and it’s designed to be a losing strategy, because right-wing capitalist Democrats are more interested in suppressing their own party’s left wing, than in fighting the country’s radical right. They’re more motivated by maintaining power than by preventing the collapse of American democracy. We have to vote for the best viable candidate in the general election, even if that candidate is a capitalist extremist Democrat, but we should be doing everything we can to remove them in the primaries, not just in spite of the general election stakes, but because of the general election stakes.
EDITED: Changed “issues voting” to “issues polling”
Weird that people consistently don’t vote for these things in their districts then.
National polling doesn’t mean much except in the race for the Presidency. I assure you that WV voters like Joe Manchin a shitload more than they like Bernie Sanders.
You don’t have to like that (I certainly don’t) but it is very true.