It is gaining traction with leftists that don’t understand how FPTP voting works. Just educate them. Every single right-wing anchor they try to attach to our society can be destroyed with education and information.
This is the classic pincer manoeuvre of the right and mainstream media: the left wing candidate is always both too left and not left enough at the same time.
And they reinforce it with shitty opinion pieces of “all sides”. Anything to minimise left wing gains and keep the ratchet going.
Looking forward to this one guy being held up as representative of the entire 1/3 of Americans who don’t vote, as well as third party voters of all stripes.
50/50 on him entering politics or being caught for sex offenses.
Remember an op-ed is a blood pact. Everything the NYT puts out again should be viewed through this lens. They endorsed not voting, and nothing will ever make that not true…
Edit: oh look it was trivial to find a form on their website to let them know what I think.
I wasn’t going to vote but you convinced me that there is an agenda to get me to not vote so now I’m going to vote for trump.
spoiler
Not really, but still, why is the assumption that not voting means a vote is lost for democrats?
Mostly because the people that don’t feel represented are overwhelmingly on the left.
You won’t find many right-wing people dissatisfied with the current choices, if they’re extremists they’d vote Trump and if they aren’t they’re probably fine with Biden. The only reason I can think of for a potential Republican voter not going is that they think Trump will win anyway and they don’t need their vote.
So if democrats need those votes from the left, why don’t they try appealing to those voters?
Because Democrats in the US are right-wing too. And they know as long as Republicans keep pushing literal comic book villains, leftists are forced to vote for them. They don’t have to try harder, because they know any leftist that actually knows how the system works will vote for them even if they just do the bare minimum.
The only way for that to change is to keep voting for the lesser evil, because once Republicans lose enough terms in a row they’ll have to shift more towards the center, and at that point Dems will be forced to actually go left because “we’re not threatening democracy” won’t be enough anymore to get elected.
With a hitler stache
