• Credibly_Human@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    When they lose it needs to be cause they were not left enough they need to lose

    This idea that you can punish the DNC by having them lose, is a foot gun.

    They are 100% happy with that and it absolutely would not cause them to shift even a centimeter left. If anything, it will shift them right.

    The DNC wants to please their corporate donors, and only wants to win half the time.

    You want to punish them? Replace them slowly using primaries, state and local politics.

    Anything else is shooting yourself in the foot by misunderstanding the incentive structures.

    • Triasha@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      I didn’t mean “when they lose to Republicans, it needs to be because they weren’t left enough” I meant “when they lose an election, it needs to be because there was a farther left candidate that won”

      Conservatives need to never win an election again in my lifetime. Maybe if the Republican party moved left of the Democratic party, or if a third party gained popularity and was left if the Democrats.

      But realistically, it has to happen in primaries.