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She was not a bad candidate: a smart, fun, relatively young centrist. Her candidacy was dragged down mostly by Biden's reluctance to tap out and by Trump barely surviving an assassination. Without either of those two things (especially the latter) she might very well have been the first female US president.
If she really becomes the candidate, the way to victory is for her not to embrace the woke left (especially the fucking morons who worked against her because they hallucinated some crazy Gaza things), and go for the center more clearly. Of course she'll need to denounce the far right as well, but somehow I imagine that won't be a problem for a D candidate.
And that's the point at which you discredited yourself.
Arms-length complicity in genocide is nearly as bad as open promotion of it.
And where's that center again? Splitting the difference between run-of-the-mill corporatist Democrats and MAGA fascists? Running concentration camps for asylum seekers, but with slightly better towels and soap? Nobody will vote for MAGA Lite. If a voter wants fascism, they'll go for the full-fat version.
The problem is that worldwide this is not a time for centrism. Promising "nothing will fundamentally change" is a great way to immediately lose an election.
Great time for the US to try 3 or 4 parties
Or, more realistically, hijacking the Democratic party and dragging it kicking and screaming towards the left.
You may not have noticed but the entire world has lurched to the right. You can't win an election by wooing voters on the left, you'll just lose votes on the right.
The American left will just stay home and pay on reddit about how the dems are secretly right wing capitalists anyway.
Which US politician has been attempting to woo voters on the left, in your opinion?
Embracing centrism, like real centrism and not some Joe Rogan "centrism" would be an amazing change compared to the current situation. I agree that it's never an easy thing to sell though. Centrism is boring.
I was with you for a bit. But I disagree on a few points:
Democrats do need to realise that elections but particularly presidential elections are a gut check. People vote for the president that leads boldly and fearlessly. Someone who has conviction and doesn’t seem to deliver messaging that has been pre-planned. When Trump was shown to be inaccurate during the campaign, people liked him more because he appeared to be speaking extemporaneously.