• Malfeasant@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    Yes. Democrats alienating the people whose votes they need to win is absolutely a democrat problem.

    • Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      You’re not owed your ass kissed for a vote. That’s not how it works. A candidate has to try to appeal to more than single issue voters. Historicity this has been proven true.

      • AgentDalePoopster@lemmy.world
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        5 hours ago

        No one is asking for their asses to be kissed, we’re asking for a campaign that appeals to enough voters in the party’s own base as opposed to courting voters in the other party’s base.

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          2 hours ago

          And I said a candidate needs to appeal to a wider audience than to court single issue voters. If those single issue voters understood this, maybe things would have gone differently.

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            2 hours ago

            Yes, maybe things would have gone differently if they had done anything to appeal to people with a proven track record of voting blue (including opposing genocide in Gaza, which most Democrat voters oppose) rather than trying to appeal to imaginary “moderate Republicans”. I guess we’ll never know!