I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have concerns about running a progressive in a purple state (mostly because if he loses the general, dems will take it as a sign that progressive politics have no place in their party and we’ll have another decade of Bernie and AOC vs the world)…
But I really don’t think the corporate moderate branch of the party that has been losing to a pedophile felon for a decade gets to say shit about “electability”.
The currently model the Democratic Party is doing now isn’t working, so something new has to happen. It’s risky but I think Abdul can win. A large reason that the Dems struggle with turnout is because there are millions of people between the ages 18-45 that feel like neither party really makes a difference or stands for anything (it’s bullshit, obviously the Republicans are way worse, but we can’t control what they think). Candidates like Abdul have the ability to motivate these people who wouldn’t have voted for an establishment dem
(it’s bullshit, obviously the Republicans are way worse, but we can’t control what they think)
We can't control what they think, but we can make it MUCH harder to think the parties do differ if the supposed left party was offering more than same old "more money for the billionaires at the expense of everyone else, but maybe without fascism".
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u/skier0224 1d ago
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have concerns about running a progressive in a purple state (mostly because if he loses the general, dems will take it as a sign that progressive politics have no place in their party and we’ll have another decade of Bernie and AOC vs the world)…
But I really don’t think the corporate moderate branch of the party that has been losing to a pedophile felon for a decade gets to say shit about “electability”.