I disagree, it’s their right to cast (or not cast) their vote how they choose. If someone chose not to vote for Harris because they didn’t want even their small part in the Genocide, I don’t blame the voter for having a conscience. I blame the Democrats for not giving them a different option, especially considering their opponent.

you're wrong though. Just because you didn't actively vote for the candidate, doesn't mean you didn't do anything. In some capacity, you would have rathered the chance that donald trump win, then you help harris to win. Which means by proxy, as with harris, you are complicit in "the genocide" or whatever other talking point you can fill into that blank (it works with everything, might as well generalize it lmao)

Let's say, there are three people, one of them is me, the other is you, and the third is just some person. I have a knife, i tell you very explicitly, that i am going to stab this person. And instead of you doing anything, because you don't know who this person is, and have no reason to care about them, you just close your eyes and plug your ears until after i've stabbed them already. There is no moral framework to which you can ascribe yourself as a "neutrally uninvolved party" in this incident.

I don’t understand why the voters have to always sacrifice their concerns and wants, but the party doesn’t. All Harris had to do was not basically mirror Biden’s policy on Israel, and she couldn’t do it. That’s a failure on the Democrats, not the voters.

because that's how the system works? If you have small concerns you go to small local elections, and vote in primaries, the two things that actually influence this (nobody votes in the primary btw) the federal government is highly irrelevant to you in most scenarios. You really shouldn't give a fuck about most of what it's doing, just that it generally aligns with your principles. And if it's not perfect, as we say in the field of engineering "it's better barely functional, than non existent"

This is what a lot of the voting base is tired of hearing. Through their inaction (whether it’s justified or not), Democrats have made the majority of voters apathetic.

well, then i'm sorry, but you kinda deserve whatever is going to happen to you as a party demographic.

So every election season, almost nothing has improved for the average person

yeah, it's the federal government, what are they going to do? Tuck you in at night before you go to sleep? They're not your mother. If they're functioning as intended you shouldn't even be thinking about them.

And how did that pan out for her? The Democrats keep trying this centrist-moderate policy, and they keep losing, and instead of trying to go left, they just go further right.

i think it worked out well, if you look at the rhetoric online, and the rally turnouts, it's pretty clear it went pretty well onsite. The problem was getting a general voter turnout from the useless mess that is the dem voter demographic.

so why are you trying to win over moderates instead of rally new support?

very few people are politically engaged to the point where they care about anything outside of just "i voted" they know almost nothing, so broadening your potential voter base has a massive implication on potential turnout. The problem i think, is that the dem party has an entitlement of being better than everybody else, and it ends up clubbing itself over the head in turnout over this.

But even then, why not now? How is promising Americans another paid federal holiday a bad idea during a campaign?

could be any number of reasons, as for the holiday, the answer is obvious. "REALLY THE BEST YOU DO IS A FUCKING HOLIDAY?" would be like, half the media. and republicans would immediately call it communism. The second you promise anything, you let down 60% of the voter base because they all have a really specific vision for what they want, when we should all be coalescing in agreement on a broad political ideology, and worry about the actual politics later in office. (or earlier in the chain)

Voting rights have been a major topic over the last few years, where were her policies on enshrining the right to vote and stop these voter purges we’ve been seeing?

specifically, it's a states rights issue, the federal government has very little control over voting jurisdiction in states, if arizona wants to make it illegal for black people to vote, they can, but the AZ supreme court would likely rule it unconstitutional, and it would most likely be challenged in the federal supreme court later on.

Realistically the most we can do federally is mail in voting, but even that requires cooperation, and maybe a federal voter ID to appease republicans and provide a secondary form of federal identification that isn't an SSN. If you want to do ANYTHING in regards to voting on a state level, it pretty much has to be done at a state level.

so why can’t Democrats lie to try to help people?

because we're unconscionably good faith. We need to stop being like this, or at the very least, draw lines in the sand, and fucking destroy the conservative media empire (probably with another media empire, just without all of the disinfo propaganda) I've said it before, and i'll say it again, the dem party is the victim in a physically abusive relationship with the republican party. We need to recognize this and fucking leave. (although we can't really leave, we have to win instead)

The Dems never seem to make any meaningful attempt to move us forward, and if they do, it’s handicapped because they have to compromise and work across the aisle.

to be clear, biden has done a lot of really good things in his admin, the IRA and infra bill notably. Tons of funding for things like the CHIPS act, and a handful of other things, numerous border bills that would've been productive, but were killed by republicans. It's not "aesthetic legislation" but it's pretty damn good legislative regardless. The biden admin will probably go down as one of the most productive admins in US history.

they did not feel like the economy was working for them, etc.

this is literally just recency bias (and inconvenient timing) there's nothing you can do about this, especially when the republicans are literally running a propaganda machine akin to the nazi regime. The best option i've come up with thus far is that we just really need to commit to winning as a party. We have to do what we can to be as productive as possible, and that means leaving behind everything tangentially relevant (for a little bit at least)

And Democrats ignored it and kept trying to shove their figures and metrics down our throat, completely disregarding how people felt, and just expecting them to get over it.

the problem is that the figures are accurate, and what the people feel is literally delusional. People feel as if their 401ks were higher under trump, than they are now under biden.

This is literally impossible, it cannot happen (unless you withdraw money) what are we supposed to do against schizophrenic "vibes and feels" There is nothing we can do, facts and figures are rooted in reality, at least. That's the one thing we have right now.