Ahh yes the “voters should have STFU and got in line for the genocide candidate” crowd seems to be out in full force.
There is one critique to come to from the 2024 election: Harris/Buden needed to have done better.
This group gave her a path to doing better; Harris chose not to take it. That’s on Harris, not the uncommitted/undecided movement. AND, if you are blaming voters at this point, you are the very problem that produces the results of now multiple Trump victories when he was one of the most easily defeatable candidates of all time.
Putting it on voters, not candidates, to change allows candidates to maintain highly unelectable positions: the primaries are when voters correct candidates as to where the party is at. The candidates, in this case Harris and Biden, chose not to listen to the voters.
There was nothing “strategic” about supporting a pro genocide candidate when the act of being pro genocide was clearly to preclude their ability to win the election. The most “strategic” thing to have done in that moment was to do exactly what this organizer did: Organize a protest vote and try and move the candidate.
And if in 2025 you haven’t learned this lesson, keep your wrong headed approach to Democratic party politics to yourself. You cost us 2024 and if that view of strategy, the Democratic party will win nothing of substance in the future.
Ahh yes the “voters should have STFU and got in line for the genocide candidate” crowd seems to be out in full force.
There is one critique to come to from the 2024 election: Harris/Buden needed to have done better.
This group gave her a path to doing better; Harris chose not to take it. That’s on Harris, not the uncommitted/undecided movement. AND, if you are blaming voters at this point, you are the very problem that produces the results of now multiple Trump victories when he was one of the most easily defeatable candidates of all time.
Putting it on voters, not candidates, to change allows candidates to maintain highly unelectable positions: the primaries are when voters correct candidates as to where the party is at. The candidates, in this case Harris and Biden, chose not to listen to the voters.
There was nothing “strategic” about supporting a pro genocide candidate when the act of being pro genocide was clearly to preclude their ability to win the election. The most “strategic” thing to have done in that moment was to do exactly what this organizer did: Organize a protest vote and try and move the candidate.
And if in 2025 you haven’t learned this lesson, keep your wrong headed approach to Democratic party politics to yourself. You cost us 2024 and if that view of strategy, the Democratic party will win nothing of substance in the future.