"Left MELTS DOWN Over Hasan Piker's Comments on Gavin Newsom! THIS Is Why We LOSE!" [View all]

WARNING: This video will upset many people here, so you may want to skip it. Hasan Piker ruffled a lot of feathers when he said he would vote third-party in a Newsom/Vance match-up. In this video, Jennifer Welch does a good job of capturing where that thinking comes from and why the Democratic party ignores this at its own peril, and why we keep losing elections to awful people who have no business anywhere near leadership, despite our having objectively better candidates.

There's a case to be made that mere 'harm-reduction' voting still enables fascism but just at a slower pace, so it's not sufficiently different to motivate many voters we need in our coalition. So the next question involves what we should do to capture this demographic that could be large enough to propel us to victory or leave us in our current state of defeat at the hands less-qualified, awful people.

I'm not saying Piker is right or that I would do the same, but we need to think about ways to engage a growing segment of the potential voting population. "We aren't Republicans" may be helpful at this moment, as we see from recent special elections, but it won't be enough to keep a majority in the longer term, as reflected in our current dismal voter approval ratings. Those ratings are what we must turn around somehow if we want to create a sustainable bulwark against that small but very vocal portion of the US population that eagerly embraces fascism in order to be rid of us.

We are stuck with the voting population we have, so we need to learn to navigate better in that environment. BTW, this means actually seriously looking at the autopsy of why we lost rather than ignoring it as our current leadership decided for whatever reason. IMO this was a terrible decision that will damage us further.

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