(June 28, 2018 at 11:10 am)Shell B Wrote:(June 27, 2018 at 4:43 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I hate this argument.
Well, it's true. I'm Independent. Democrats don't automatically get my vote. They have to work for it.
Quote:If we as democrats want to clobber the GOP we have to play hardball. We have to take part. We can protect the private sector and get back to the policies of post WW2 that gave workers rights, that gave America stability. But we cannot do that if we allow the GOP to keep painting us as communists and anti patriotic.
Democrats need the Independent votes. If they keep putting up more bank-owned politicians, they aren't going to get them.
Not my point.
Of course a politician should work for your vote.
I am talking about our apathy as voters since Reagan and that matters. It is easy to blame those in office. And even when we do get the person we want, we never get 100% of what we want. If politics is the art of compromise, and it is, voters as progressives and liberals have failed our politicians by apathy and purity tests.
GOP have not done that. They are far more organized and even when you have McCain rightfully call Putin a "KGB thug and murderer", you still have the majority of their party and their voters STILL support an asshole who suck's Putin's dick.
And again, it is easy to blame our politicians for being part of the problem, but if we don't put our politicians feet to the fire, they are forced to play the game the other side plays.
This is not one person, this is not one election. Our failure has been our apathy and lack of participation. If we are to beat the GOP we have to beat them at messaging and participation.
