Purge neoliberals and ensure actual leftists and progressives control the party. Watch as elections start being won again.
That’s just about the opposite point of the article but ok
Cool so we both agree the article is wrong lol.
Democrats want the party to focus on their day-to-day needs and want wealthier Americans to pay more in taxes.
That was the express point of the article.
The only two parts that deviated from that message: saying democrats focus too much on transgender issues and it talked up Gavin Newsom.
So if that wasn’t the point of the article that’s what you’re left with.
This is the state of a constituency which thinks progress is impossible without leaving the marginalized behind. The failure in expectation is the leaders’ faults too.
Democrats want new leaders for their party, which many feel isn’t focusing enough on economic issues and is over-emphasizing issues like transgender rights and electric vehicles, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
over-emphasizing issues like transgender rights
I know this isn’t the point of the article, but it’s distressing that the average Democrat voter also believes that minimal defense of trans rights from existential threats is over-emphasis.
Extremely depressing to read that. People don’t understand that you can’t have a society that truly respects everyone’s rights except those people. Trans rights are the frontline of the fight for everyone’s rights, not some optional extra.
Trans rights isn’t a winning political strategy.
I say this as a trans person. Americans don’t care about 1.3% of the population, they care about themselves.
People want economic progress, that’s why they elected a strongman conman.
I think that says more about lack of coverage/attention to economic issues than anything. At least in my charitable reading of it.
I think it’s more that we have problems affecting large amounts of the population and people are probably tired of trans being 1% of the population but taking up more than 1% of the discourse. And largely only to the end result of being used as wedge to hurt trans people.
The sad reality is, it would be better for trans rights for the left to win, and the left isn’t going to win by ignoring tactics and strategy in a game that the right is metagaming into oblivion with voter suppression and gerrymandering.
I think they forgot to add the option of “growing a spine” to the poll because that would be #1
Agree. LGBTQ and other issues are important, but they are fringe issues. Democrats should be focused on appealing to the average voter, whoever that is by focusing on issues that affect MOST people like wages, healthcare, housing, childcare, labor rights, etc. You only get to take care of the fringes if you have power and that means winning over the non-fringes.
Edit: the downvotes on here are frankly selfish as hell. What’s your response even? No one even has the guts to share, so here is my guess — “My niche political issue impacts 1-5% of the population, but politicians should focus on me. Even if it obviously won’t win an election and will instead usher in even more wins for the far right, politicians should focus on my issues rather than those common to all people. It’s better to sink the entire ship, if I can’t get my wins immediately rather than build a movement that incrementally makes progress.”
I hope when Nazis come for you, you happily step in front of their barrel with a smile on your face. Surely it’s the least selfish thing to do so we can move on to other issues, right? Or would you suddenly care when it’s your own skin in the game
The simple answer is: there’s never been a trans issue. There’s been an anti-trans issue though. And that’s categorically portrayed as the trans people’s fault and responsibility, much to the benefit and design of the anti-trans movement.
The anti-trans folk sit right along Zionists and ICE in their rhetoric.
Get ready because you’re about to get dragged through the streets for stating simple common sense. We don’t like winning elections around these parts.
