Wake-up Call: Democrats could easily lose the White House and Senate next year

Doesn't matter what the headlines or the opinion polls say. Vote like democracy depends on it!

Imagine thinking that Trump is in any way, shape, or form, better for you and your family than Biden.

Conservatives and Republicans: hate working class people, hate people that rent, hate minorities including women, want to privatize every last piece of American society so you'll have to subscribe to your alarm clock and appliances.

Biden could have done what’s best for the country and been a one term president. I’ll still vote for him but not because he’s some amazing leader or anything.

So they did it to themselves if they lose.

Wake up call for who? Will the Democrats ever wake up and give their base something to vote for, instead of "hey, the other guys's worse, whaddya gonna do?".

Uh... Haven't we been screaming that Biden is a pretty bad candidate since he took office and begging him to not run for re-election?

This is a surprise to who?

The article could have, but didn't, make the point that our politics and the rhetoric surrounding it today serve the right by subverting faith in democracy, and by exhausting likely voters' critical faculties:

Yesterday, David Roberts of the energy and politics newsletter Volts noted that a Washington Post article illustrated how right-wing extremism is accomplishing its goal of destroying faith in democracy. Examining how “in a swing Wisconsin county, everyone is tired of politics,” the article revealed how right-wing extremism has sucked up so much media oxygen that people have tuned out, making them unaware that Biden and the Democrats are doing their best to deliver precisely what those in the article claim to want: compromise, access to abortion, affordable health care, and gun safety.

One person interviewed said, “I can’t really speak to anything [Biden] has done because I’ve tuned it out, like a lot of people have. We’re so tired of the us-against-them politics.” Roberts points out that “both sides” are not extremists, but many Americans have no idea that the Democrats are actually trying to govern, including by reaching across the aisle. Roberts notes that the media focus on the right wing enables the right wing to define our politics. That, in turn, serves the radical right by destroying Americans’ faith in our democratic government.

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There's also the tendency for people to assign to the incumbent all of the problems that happen on his watch- at this point, even with material improvements for most people, it's a hard sell to convince people that they're better off when every bit of right-wing media is devoted to telling people they're worse off and the mainstream media just both-sides it like there isn't one party trying mightily to end American democracy.

So sad that after so many failings, they still cannot learn! Do what's right, not what's personally profitable, you scumbags.

Do you want trump? This is how we get trump.

The "Biden sucks" narrative is a little out of control at the moment. I hope his team pivots to highlight all of his successes around the time Trump is getting tossed in prison. That should hopefully be enough juxtaposition for even the most terminally online idiots in this country to not vote for the meme candidate again.

Part of the problem also is that centrist Dem voters are single issue queens and will refuse to turn out if they don't get their way on certain issues, and a lot of them are drawing lines in the sand over Israel/Palestine right now. In case anybody hasn't be paying attention, let me assure you, Trump will not end the war in the middle east. If anything, he will accelerate it. If you're unhappy about Biden supporting Israel but calling for an end to hostilities, boy are you going to be upset if Trump takes the White House and endorses full-on genocide of Muslims in the west bank and complete Russian supremacy in Ukraine.

My question is who are they asking for these poles?

Democrat leadership has a severe communications problem. I'm not sure why they refuse to fix the disconnect.

Maybe their strategy for getting votes could be something better than "the other guy is worse".

Ok so it starts with you. Volunteer with your local voting rights groups and get people registered to vote. Work their social media teams. Go to high schools and go register those turning 18. Voting rights groups are well known for this useful work.

i wonder sometimes what it would be like to cut my intestines with a pair of scissors

The government would work a lot better if all the old fucks stopped trying to make everything a petty competition with winners and losers.

So, what are they doing to energize the base?

Man, they intentionally picked the most frail looking photo of Biden they could find, didn't they?

To who? The convicted felon? Or maybe it's that Florida governor who is pissed off the largest Media company in the world?

A question to American Lemmy users: from what I can tell you are Democrats for the vast majority : would you consider voting for a Republican president if you aligned with his ideas, or if the Democrat candidate was an unredeemable piece of shit? The two party system makes zero sense to me because it doesn't seem, at first glance, that they're a huge overlap, people are not willing to go to the other side often, it seems. .. what's the point of having debates and stuff then?

My problem is that since the first time I've been able to vote, the Democratic party has shown they don't care about who the people may want. They will actively suppress whoever isn't their chosen one. And there are cases where they fund ads for their crazy opposition instead of building a meaningful case for their candidate. I voted for Biden originally, and I will not vote for Trump now, but I need more than "vote for me because I'm not the other guy", especially the second time around. If Trump wins, it's because the Democratic party shot themselves in the foot. Party cohesion is made by leaders who listen to their constituents.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

And while he's downplayed the role his advanced age could have on his ability to lead, polling's revealed that more than three-fourths of US adults think he's simply too old for another four years in the White House.

The publication said that some of those around the president have advocated for him to walk shorter distances and ditch his dress shoes for more comfortable ones, sometimes sneakers, to lower the risk of him falling.

A poll released in early November by the New York Times and Siena College also showed Trump leading the Democratic president in five of six battleground states.

If he can regain the trust and support of his 2020 electorate, especially the young voters who voted for him in droves but hate how he's handled the conflict in the Middle East, he's got more than a fair shot at winning reelection.

Additionally, Trump, the party's leading candidate by a wide margin, is currently fighting a mountain of legal battles after getting charged with 91 felonies by grand juries across the country throughout 2023.

The Supreme Court's decision in 2022 to overturn decades of precedent for abortion access has also led to Democratic voters turning out in record numbers, especially when abortion-related referendums are on the ballot like in Ohio and Kansas.

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Oo I'm so scared!!!!

GTFO. Democrats losing the white house and the senate in 2024 is a fuck around and find out moment.

Americans. We've been fucking around for a very long time.

Of course they could lose them. They are senile and old. They probably lose all sorts of shit

Well, senate. We've know we were loosing the senate for 6 years, since these are the people elected in 2018 right when people started to come to terms that Trump wasn't competent.

The white house will be decided by three groups of 12 people and the delegates at the RNC when Trump can't accept the nomination in person due to being in jail. "What if all three find him innocent?" Then like the petulant man-child he is, he will do something right after the 3rd acquittal to celebrate being un-jail-able that will cause his immediate arrest.

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Well past time for one of those historical shifts to a third party.

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Thank God.

Why would the Dems care? They know who it is that will protect their privilege and power for them when the working-class no longer buys their "centrist" bullshit - that's why they spend so much time "reaching across the aisle" to naked fascism.

Trumps been polling ahead for 2 months. Reminds me of 2016 again. Democrats are doing their best to lose in 2024.

81 year old dinosaur won't step aside. 2 new wars and focus on identity politics

Would I be a bad person if I said I don't want to vote for either of the evils, and I'm going to vote for Williamson? Or West? I genuinely feel guilty voting for either side and I hate that feeling.

EDIT: Ok then, I will do the right thing, not for Biden's sake, or that asshole Drumpf, but for us, the american people who are caught in the middle of this shit. Thanks to everyone who chimed in.

Who will win the battle for Corpmurica's soul?

The racist, willfully ignorant fascists being paid off by the owner class to keep the economy rigged against you as they burn the world for private profit, or the indolent neoliberals being paid off by the owner class to keep the economy rigged against you as they burn the world for private profit?

Find out next November... on... 🔥 King of the Ashes! 🔥

I'm not voting for biden again. I don't care what you say.

He is simply a more skilled fascist than trump. He cut a check to Israel so fast with a smile on his face.

people voting for dems again: have fun spewing the same circular logic about how I have to vote for the lesser of two super evils dude, EVERY SINGLE election.

Y'all are more dangerous to democracy than trump supporters.

When their entire campaign was based on 'we are not Trump' then turned out they were exactly like Trump and his policies, they deserve to lose.