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Adopting rightwing policies ‘does not help centre-left win votes’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Makes sense in a European many-party setting, because while you might gain votes from the centre-right you'll lose some to the leftist party for the same reason.
Doesn't apply to a two-party system where there is no leftist party to take votes, the leftists have to vote for the center-left or nobody, and the further away from the right wing party they are the more activated they get by negative partisanship so they will generally vote center-left regardless.
In the USA it's more "The left has to vote for the center right because the other option is the far right"
This. Even our so called moderates are right of center. Biden is right of center. Even Bernie Sanders is just barely to the left on the scale. Obama is right of center, it’s wild. And yet Republicans call these right of center politicians socialists, and our media never asks any follow up questions about it. United States is fucked.
How about just not adopting right-wing policy so you can save on the time healing that foot you shot
They vote for nobody. Electoral turnout in the UK plummeted from 1997 on.
Low turnout is a feature (not a bug) of neoliberalism.