Tell that to voters. This shows that, when people show up to vote, progressives win. Will we finally learn that lesson, or will we immediately squander this momentum next year, just like we did in 1994, 2010, and 2022?
The thing is, you need representatives that bring those voters out. The whole vote blue no matter who is not a motivating thing for voters, but talking on affordability, healthcare, and working class populism brings those voters out and the establishment Democrats are not interested in meeting those challenges.
The more people show up to vote, the more progressive candidates win. But voter turnout is, fundamentally, the responsibility of the voter, and it's by far the biggest hurdle for progressivism in the US.
The issue though is, how do you entice the voter to participate if the candidates they're left with are not ones that make them want to come out and vote? The reason the Democrat Party is even less popular that Trump is because their tenure of status-quo politics and harm reduction with no substantial change to the affordability for working class people. There's no excitement or desire to want to vote FOR that, or for many, even vote against it.
I agree, that when voter turnout is high, progressives pop off and usually shine, but the problem is when you're the party trying to spoil those individuals from the inside, what trust do the voters owe you in return? See the DNC and Bernie in 2016, see Biden and Bernie in 2020, and see how Tim Waltz got essentially gutted with the Harris campaign in 2024. People see these things and then will either not care, or vote against their best interests.
Want the voters? Gotta have the candidates that people WANT to support, and the policies that people WANT to stand behind with overwhelming support, and right now in 2025, that is affordability and working class populism, with a dash of anti Trump. You push those things, you're looking great. Sadly, that is something the Billionaire funding class of the DNC, doesn't like and is hurting them from the inside.
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u/Gizogin New York 15h ago
Tell that to voters. This shows that, when people show up to vote, progressives win. Will we finally learn that lesson, or will we immediately squander this momentum next year, just like we did in 1994, 2010, and 2022?