can't find who said it on here but the average Uncommitted voter in Michigan wants Biden to win more, and is a more reliable Dem partisan, than the leadership of the NY Democratic Party
TX Dems have pretty much been gerrymandered into positions of powerlessness, to the point that urban voting blocks have Republican reps even when our city govt. is majority Dem :v
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Which makes it more effective than the New York Democratic Party leadership. Democrats win in New York because they vastly outnumber the opposition, but under any vaguely competent Democratic leadership the New York Republican party would be like the Texas Democratic party.
The NY Democratic party is run by conservatives who resent having to register as Dems to get elected and genuinely want Republicans to have more power than voters are willing to give them
New York Dems do not have political goals or motivations. They just want their personal graft trains rolling and oppose anything that has an outside chance of interfering with said Graft Trains.
Yeah crazy as it seems I think this is literally the case. If they lived in a swing state or red state they'd be Republicans, but they're Dems because that's what you have to do to get elected in New York.
like what most people on the left, from the suburban parents to the socialists, is a Dem party that stands up for itself and tries to carry out its stated goals. it's gotten a lot better over the last 20 years but a long way to go
I don't understand this behavior. Don't almost all politicians and parties, even at their worst, try to behave consistently with their own self-interest?
I live here and I don’t get it either. Is it because of NYC corporate money? Is it bc of the rich in Westchester? Is it bc most of the Ds here are POC so the party feels they can ignore them and still keep the vote? Every D in NY I know is an AOC fan but the party won’t shift more left!
I believe it’s the corruption-from what I’ve read the local parties are insane. They have everything the way they want it, and it’s hard for reformers to breakthrough.
The average Jill Stein voter is a more reliable democratic partisan than the NYDems. Joe Manchin is a more reliable Democratic partisan than the NYDems
my hope is that the insanely gerrymandered red state legislatures will go through the same process: if the only path to power is through a single party, that party loses ideological coherence as people who would normally be opponents sneak into your tent. But that takes a long long time.
That currently doesn’t happen with the GOP because they maintain a lot more rigid of an ideological line than the Democrats do, and officials who don’t meet that line get their lives threatened in those states
