France's leftist coalition trounced the far right and the Dems takeaway from that should be that they need to actually BUILD a coalition with the folks to the left of them instead of constantly telling the actual left that "their hopes are too far out, this isn't the time"
but instead they're going to stick like glue to scraping up imagined "undecided centrist" votes while scores of young, minority, and disenfranchised voters stay the fuck home because the Dems have proven that they will not fight the fights that need fighting.
The Dems platform for a while has been "everything is fine, unless the Republicans are in charge" and meanwhile the Republicans are getting more cartoonishly villainous. It's frustrating as a voter, knowing that a 3rd option would just make things undeniably worse.
I kind of think the "oh no a 3rd option is a spoiler don't do it or the other side will win!" is trotted out by the big 2 because they both fear being FORCED to integrate a voting block that is outside their usual base
But notably that is what MAGA has already done to the Republicans!
It's tricky because we don't have a voting system that benefits multiple parties and getting the big 2 to pen out something that fixes that sounds like a decades long nail pulling segment. MAGA is interesting because it motivated an unmotivated voting base that took over the party.
You're absolutely right but the Dems use that fact as a cudgel against their own
I don't think anything will really work short of a leftist "Green Wave" movement with serious mainstream popularity that forces the dems out of their trench in the same way that MAGA forced the Republicans to the right
Yeah establishment Dems love fearmongering the idea that they aren't in charge and will use everything to get people back to being ok with them sitting on their hands. Bernie was almost the guy, but not enough to get people shaken out of their everything is fine mentality.
A problem is that liberals and centrists want to keep the status quo as long as they benefit from it and it'll never be the right time for them to want to progress
I even remember seeing Macron make some comments about the New Popular Front when they formed and don't recall seeing him say much about the far-right coalition
I've been trying to find that article but it's difficult to with the win the left got
The takeaway for both the left and moderates is to accept the results of the first round of voting whether it's a progressive or a moderate that gets more votes, and then pull together against the right. When I see French solidarity turned into an attack on our Dem coalition, doesn't make me hopeful
We may differ on this point. I would say the Dem establishment has not just failed to build that coalition but has actively dismantled it by swinging far right on immigration and by refusing to demand a ceasefire to an ongoing genocide.
That’s kinda the result of our system vs parliamentary. Primaries cater to the loud edges of the parties, and then the general forces things centrist to get 50%+1 in each state. More parties drives beneficial coalition diversity in parliamentary, but 3rd party fragmentation loses elections here.
