The quickest way to purge the party of the corporate Dems is to get a progressive elected as president. Look at how radically Trump has reshaped the Republican party. A president popular among their party has the ability to completely reshape the policy direction of a party. Trump radically reshaped the Republican party, and the Democratic party is still in the form that it was shaped by the Clintons during the 90s. Trump remade the party in his image. AOC would do the same for the Democratic party.

Yes. And 2024 was a year of brutally high inflation when everyone was being crushed by the soaring cost of living. Were you in a coma in 2024?

Exactly. And people were also saying then that we needed to go with the more electable candidate with more experience. That was the exact argument Hillary supporters made during the 2008 primary.

“We’ve never tried the inspiring candidate, but without evidence, I must insist that they’re unelectable.”

“Not ready?” The realty show candidate just won two terms and won complete control of Congress. The electorate simply doesn’t give a shit about whether a candidate has a suitably long resume of elected positions. Honestly, a long political resume is actually a detriment in today’s landscape.

You do not know what electability is.

You know you’ve lost the argument when you start throwing around slurs.

2024 was a great year, economically speaking.

And this pants-on-head stupid take was why we lost the election.

And how well has your strategy of “don’t rock the boat, don’t try anything new” been working out for you there, buddy? How many elections do we need to lose before you realize that you have crap instincts on what makes a candidate electable? In our current electoral landscape, the quickest way to lose an election is to be stupid enough to pick the “safe” candidate.

I think you may literally be insane. After all, what is insanity but repeating the same action again and again, but expecting a different result?

I think you personally don’t want a woman president, and you’re hiding behind concerns of electability because it’s not socially acceptable on lemjy to be an overt misogynist.

You’re just doing the left version of American exceptionalism.

This is just the woke version of American exceptionalism. Conservatives exist in all countries. Hell, Mexico is famous for its machismo culture.

So first you pretend that your original comment had content it didn’t. Then you throw around slurs. You’re insane. Really, someone dares to criticize corporate Dems, and you just can’t help yourself. You start throwing around slurs like “tankie” in a completely irrelevant context. You’re just an llm at this point, a blind parrot rattling off catch phrases.

So?

Are you illiterate?

If Britain and Mexico can both elect a woman to lead their country, why can’t the US?

AOC needs to go to the Senate or replace Jeffries before I feel she is ready for the shit show that comes with the broken relationships Trump has caused.

You’re a coward. This is cowardly thinking. This is what got us Biden. This is what got us Clinton. Democrats try and reason themselves out of going with their best candidate. They select someone who has no fire, passion, or charisma. They reject any candidate that can inspire the base, all on the grounds that they don’t have enough experience, aren’t moderate enough, etc. We nominate some unelectable centrist, ironically on the back of “electability.” And then Republicans nominate a reality TV star with no governing experience at all, and the electable Dem loses in a landslide.

Maybe you just don’t know what it means for a candidate to be electable?

And how has this kind of cowardly thinking served our party recently?

Nah, I just think you personally are sexist and are looking to voters to validate your beliefs. Americans will vote for a women candidate. They just won’t vote for an uninspiring third way Democrat, whether they have a vag or not.

Attitudes like yours are why Democrats lose elections. We talk ourselves out of our best candidates. We try to compromise with Republicans right out the gate, and try to select the more moderate ‘electable’ candidate.

Your line of thinking got us Kerry, Clinton, and Biden.

Trying to select a candidate based on “electability” is bullshit, because you just end up selecting for the most uninspiring centrist who can’t get people to the polls.

You think you’re selecting for winners, but you’re taking your strongest pieces off the board.

The truth is that the strength of a democracy has little relation to the birth rate. If you live in the US, for example, you only live in a democracy if your income is in the top 10%. This has actually been studied. The opinions of the poorest 90% of the population have absolutely zero bearing on what government policy is implemented.

The US and China actually have similar levels of democracy. China forms all its policies from the CCP, an organization of about 100 million people. The share of the population in China that has any impact on policy is actually quite similar to the share that does the same in the US.

In the US, we just call our social credit scores credit scores.