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    2 days ago

    It is a candidate’s job to convince voters to vote for them. That is what campaigning is. Sitting here and wagging your finger, on the other hand, is not campaigning.

    We cannot tie the entire US electorate down and force them to “be more responsible”. That is not a useful or productive way to look at the problem. If that is all you fixate on, you have no actionable solution out of it.

    But what we can do is run better candidates with a better campaign, that will inspire voters to want to vote for them. That is how it works, that has always been how it works, and if we ignore that, we will lose in 2028.

    The point I am making here is that we need to talk about things we can actually do something about, instead of shutting down the conversation by deflecting to things we cannot do anything about.

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      Your “we” here is weird to me.

      Most of us aren’t party executives but most of us are voters, with friends and family who are voters.

      What I say on lemmy is never read by the DNC, but is read by voters.

      Claiming that I can’t do anything about what voters do whilst I can do something about the Democratic leadership is so very very inaccurate.