Bold to assume there will be another cycle.
By “centrist” you mean “someone between the moderate right Dems and the extreme right Reps”?
Yup. It’s one of the least representative and most corrupt so-called modern democracies in the world.
Dems are controlled opposition
Lol. Lmao even.
The left doesn’t show up to vote
I’m not so sure about that. As an outside observer, it seems pretty obvious to me that the lack of a left vote in the US is because they do not have a notable left wing party. The best way to win someone’s vote is to represent them. If nobody represents someone nobody will get that vote.
Obviously to actually fix that you’ll need election reform, this is pretty much the expected outcome of a single vote FPTP winner-take-all system.
While I agree, it would probably help if the Dems actually tried being left-wing for once, rather than always trying to be Republicans-lite
How dare you suggest that the best way to get my voice represented is to use my voice in the first place.
Why vote for a right-wing campaign?
Because the center right to right wing Dem leadership simultaneously ignore the wishes of the Left and take them for granted, offering them little to nothing in the way of improvements to the atrocious status quo.
Give people something to vote FOR, instead of only a greater evil to vote AGAINST, and you’ll get much higher voter suppression.
For example, another received wisdom is “young people don’t vote” and guess what? When they were given the chance to vote for their bodily autonomy in Kansas, young women voted at a higher rate than men of any age combined.
The last time the Dems campaigned on going further left, 2008, was their biggest win in decades. When Obama then governed further to the right and campaigned for reelection accordingly, he won by a MUCH smaller margin.
and you’ll get much higher voter suppression.
You mean turnout here?
“Ha ha sitting out and letting the far-right win will really show them”
I’m… I’m just so tired, man. I’m just going to lie down here and die, I guess.
