Summary:
Democrats are becoming increasingly concerned about a possible drop in Black voter turnout for the 2024 presidential election, according to party insiders. The worries arise from a 10% decrease in Black voter turnout in the 2022 midterms compared to 2018, a more substantial decline than any other racial or ethnic group, as per a Washington Post analysis. The decline was particularly significant among younger and male Black voters in crucial states like Georgia, where Democrats aim to mobilize Black voter support for President Biden in 2024.
The Democratic party has acknowledged the need to bolster their outreach efforts to this demographic. W. Mondale Robinson, founder of the Black Male Voter Project, highlighted the need for Democrats to refocus their attention on Black male voters, who have shown lower levels of engagement. In response, Biden’s team has pledged to communicate more effectively about the benefits that the Black community has reaped under Biden’s administration, according to Cedric L. Richmond, a senior advisor at the Democratic National Committee.
However, Black voter advocates have identified deep-seated issues affecting Black voter turnout. Many Black men reportedly feel detached from the political process and uninspired by both parties’ policies. Terrance Woodbury, CEO of HIT Strategies, a polling firm, suggests that the Democratic party’s focus on countering Trump and Republican extremism doesn’t motivate younger Black men as much as arguments focused on policy benefits. Concerns are growing within the party that if they fail to address these issues, disenchanted Black voters might either abstain or, potentially, be swayed by Republican messaging on certain key issues.
I don’t cross picket lines, why would I vote for a union buster? Balk all you want but that’s my hard line. Already listed out the local reps I can’t vote for because of the same reason. Y’all can bend your beliefs however you want to justify feedin into the same old cycle but I told them this was my hard line and they crossed it. Fuck them.
This is a very privileged position to take. Certain demographics in our country are facing genocide at the hands of one party.
“Same old cycle” is right wing propaganda. Biden is by far the most progressive president we’ve ever had.
Having standards is not a “privileged position”, it couldn’t be more opposite
Also having lived through the 1990’s, Joe Biden couldn’t be more conservative if he wanted to be, he’s a classic Dixiecrat from the South larping as a progressive for votes
You’re dillusional to call biden the most progressive president we’ve ever had. And tell me which unprivileged people Biden has been protecting? Far as I can see he let trans people back in the military then let the states do whatever they wanted to trans youth, and let the local courts sort it out. I bet they feel so safe now.
Let? You seem a bit confused as to how things work and how they got there.
People like you not voting is how we got here.
If Trump is elected do you think that his administration would be more friendly to unions than the Biden administration?
If you’re mad about Biden forcibly ending the rail strike (which was honestly infuriating) you should know that his administration continued to work with the labor union afterward to negotiate a deal while also avoiding a disastrous economic shutdown that would have resulted from the strike. Could Biden have done more to get a deal without forcing an end to the strike? Maybe. Should he have let the economy collapse in order to support labor rights? Maybe, but I understand why he didn’t.
Biden was basically my last choice of the field of democrats running in 2020 but I don’t know what anyone else would have done to achieve better results.
I don’t disagree with most of what you said but there’s a real basic thing with the rail strike he could’ve done.
If the government has the power to force a deal, he could’ve just given the workers the week off they asked for, forcing the companies to acquiesce instead of the people.
The federal government (executive branch) government did not have the power to force a deal. It had the power to break a strike
Congress had the power to enforce the agreement as written, but could not pass a bill to do so.
In early December, the House passed a bill to enforce the tentative September agreement. Interestingly, the House’s bill spun off a second bill to introduce seven days of paid sick leave into the contract.
The first bill passed the Senate and got the president’s signature.
The second bill failed in the Senate.
The new contract’s provisions included pay raises through 2024 and immediate payouts to individual workers, Progressive Railroading reports. But there was little meaningful discussion of — let alone resolution to — workers’ calls for fairer attendance policies.
Not voting democrat is a direct vote for fascism. Just because it’s not ideal and not fair doesn’t make it any less true.
Honestly given the way elections work I’m the us this is a pretty shit line of reasoning
Trump is a union buster and more
Cool, im not voting for Trump. Whatever happend to be the change you want to see in the world? If more people voted for their best interest candidate, not just whoever has the better chance at winning, maybe our democracy would work.
Until we do away with FPTP voting, you’re essentially throwing your vote away if you don’t vote Democrat or Republican.
Oh look - election season has officially kicked off with the DNC’s first attempt at trying to guilt trip people into voting for their shitty candidate.
Expect many MANY more of these in the months to come.
It really takes a special kind of scumbag to decide that the proper strategy is to nominate a dismally corrupt and/or incompetent sack of shit then try to guilt trip people into voting for them and blame the voters if they lose, when they could just nominate a decent candidate and people would willingly and even eagerly vote for them and they’d win easily.
I sometimes wonder what it’s like to be that entirely devoid of principles or integrity.
I imagine it involves a lot of alcohol.
I’m really sick of people on the left playing this game. In politics, the perfect is often the enemy of the good. Biden is the candidate because he’s the incumbent and has the best chance of winning. Full stop. He’s not a shitty candidate even if he isn’t your perfect candidate.
Nobody needs to initiate any type of guilt trip. We’ve all been through 4 years of Trump. We currently are (finally) starting to see the indictments that wrought.
We have seen what DeSantis has done to Florida. Where, just today, they effectively outlawed AP Psychology for high school students. State-level brain drain, and trans genocide.
There’s no option here and you’re a piece of shit if you don’t vote, or if you vote for the party that is literally an organized crime syndicate at this point, with a candidate who literally (and I mean like literally literally) should be in prison right now.
If you still need to be guilt tripped in order to make the right choice, then it sounds like you’re kind of a piece of shit.
We saw all that because democrats thought they knew best and pushed hillary as the nominee in 2016. A candidate so shitty that she lost against trump of all people. Many important lessons that democrats refuse to learn – likely intentionally. But yeah, shame voters for not voting the way you want them to instead of, you know, giving them something worth voting for. Truly a democracy.
Yes, we live in a fundamentally broken country. What are you going to do about it? Do you think abstaining from voting is gonna help? Or maybe you’ll really stick it to them with a “protest vote”?
OR, are you going to vote for people (down ballot too, something Bernie Bros who gave up on the DNC didn’t seem to care about after they found out he lost) that aren’t actively promoting LGBTQ genocide, aren’t gutting our public education, aren’t refusing to accept climate change is real, and who aren’t pushing their respective states (and now nation) over a precipice to literal fascism? What do you think happens after that? Leftist thought leaders will magically lead us to glorious revolution? I assume after we un-execute them, of course.
The only way to ever get where you want to go is through gradual change. Moving the Overton window (something that right has gotten figured out) more and more left with each local, state, and federal election, until candidates that more closely match your values are actually viable (because of a sane Overton window).
That doesn’t happen overnight, unless you’re advocating for literal revolution, and more often than not that doesn’t really achieve the original stated goals. And a bunch of dead people for literally nothing.
Because he’s over a decade past senior citizen.
Who the fuck do you think your constituents are? All retired senior citizens?
If a 35 year old was running, I’d vote for them literally for the age alone, providing there were no fascism ties.
We need to stop electing people that have not worked a job in over 60 years. It’s a fucking joke.
I will vote for anyone under 40. I will NEVER vote for a senior citizen.
Fuck this bullshit.
Mother fucker if Biden is the not-Trump option then you better vote for his senior citizen ass. Elections have consequences. Be idealistic in the primary but for fucks sake vote logically on election day.
Staying home or voting 3rd part/write in is a vote for Trump and is indirect violence against your fellow citizens and others around the world. How many more people would be alive today if we didn’t have Trump purposely providing bad COVID information?
Lives are literally at stake. Hold your nose and pull the correct lever. It’s simple harm reduction.
Mother fucker, no. I’ll vote how I want, and not how some one else tells me.
That’s what makes it my vote.
if Biden is the not-Trump option then you better vote for his senior citizen ass.
I think part of the reason why people feel they don’t have a choice is because the DNC seems to have just chosen biden instead of letting any other democratic candidate have a chance at the nominee.
If a candidate wants my vote, they need to earn it. I’ve done enough of voting against, and from now on I’m only voting for.
What I see is that Democrats can’t put up any candidates who are actually worth voting for and then to top it off they push insulting slogans like “Vote Blue No Matter Who.” If other Democratic voters really want to swallow that with no pushback, that is their business. But I’m not doing it anymore.
But don’t you dare go and demand who I vote for while claiming the consequences of not would result in some imagined violence. It’s bad enough when the DNC is lying to me but then I have to read nonsense takes of Liberals making threats because they’ve scared themselves to death with their own propaganda.
But don’t you dare go and demand who I vote for while claiming the consequences of not would result in some imagined violence.
It’s not imagined. It’s already happened and you still don’t care. Is voting really that difficult for you? Hundreds of millions of people but you’ll only participate if the leader of everyone gets to be your first pick. That’s some childish shit right there.
The maybe they should let us, I don’t know, vote in a primary election for the person we want to run as the Democrat nominee?? Just forcing Biden on us, like wtf?
The reason we’re in this mess is because of political tribalism. If we actually want different candidates, we gotta vote for them.
Cool, do that in the next primary, but for now let’s pick one of the real options on the table.
Not true.
But even if it were, then the system is fucked and it deserves to burn.
This is ridiculous. If you can’t have it exactly your way then just elect a litteral authoritarian dictator and cause the end of the country? Ok dude I guess you do you
wrong. the only people who help elect trump are the people who vote for trump.
Vivek is, to my knowledge, the youngest candidate. Although he’s not my first choice, I think he has some solid arguments, and understanding of where the culture is at and the persisting issues in our government.
If people don’t vote for Biden they are voting for the end of the US and democracy around the globe.
How did he back down on student loan forgiveness? Biden administration is still pushing and working on that issue.
What do you think the President can do to “fix our broken system riddled with corruption” while also fighting a very real threat to the end of democracy? That is really the job of Congress, and Biden has said many times that he’ll sign whatever the Dems send him. But they don’t have the votes there and everything is even more chaotic, but at least blame the right people.
I’ll preface this with saying I am a Bernie supporter who (unenthusiastically) voted for Hillary and Biden in 16/20 respectively, and I’ll probably vote for Biden again because we live in hell world. My biggest issue with Biden and student loans is how long it took to implement an obviously shaky plan. Do it earlier on and it doesn’t look like you are using it to string along voters for 2024. Is that the actual reason behind why it took so long for the executive order/whatever the new attempt to get going? No idea, but it sure does feel that way. Signed, a bummed out lefty.
