4d ago

0% of Democrats happy with state of the US right now

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4d ago

0% of Democrats happy with state of the US right now

www.newsweek.com /0-democrats-happy-state-us-gallup-2120091

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So they are going to change their electoral tactics, right?
Right????
- Yes the ones who voted this time will sit out next time
you'd have to be braindead to be happy with the state of the US right now.
Good! As a Democratic Strategist I can USE this Information to CONVINCE the DNC to go even FURTHER Right to Court the Republicans who ARE Happy with the US! That's the ONLY way we can WIN again!
Im shocked its not lower.
- LOL got me
While 76 percent of Republicans say they are satisfied with the direction of the country
What the absolute fuck?? These fucking people would be happy with the direction of north Korea. Decades of relentless propaganda have really done a number on these people and destroyed their critical thinking
- 65% of Republican voters are ages 50 and over, these people don't really care about anything except their retirement accounts. So long as Republicans can keep the stock market growing they don't give a shit.
- Imagine you were a vaguely decent "Republican", who sees what Trump is doing and his the broader party is enabling him, and dislikes it.
  When you get polled, what are the chances that you decide to identify as independent rather than claim that Republican affiliation soon?
But I bet many lefties will still refuse to vote if it’s not the perfect candidate.
- Nobody purity tests more than the democratic party. Back in 2016 they were screaming "NO MORE OLD WHITE MEN" at Bernie, then putting their full force behind biden four years later. The democratic party has every excuse under the sun for why a candidate shouldn't be allowed through their completely party-controlled primaries but demands everyone submits to their pick, even if their pick supports genocide with billions in weapons, just as long as that candidate assures the rich that "nothing will fundamentally change" as things continue to get worse for everyone else.
  Why are you blaming leftists anyway? If the big-brained geniuses at the democratic party calculate that leftists are so insignificant as to not bother listening to them, then how are they to blame when the democratic party loses against a clown yet again?
- There were not even acceptable ones from DNC, they were not good for workers, not good for cost of living, not good for foreign policy, possibly just for lgbt and other social issues , but social issues can’t be first things
Never listen to a centrist again when they tell you "how things have to be" to win an election.
- But but no matter who
  
  Such a tired bit of propaganda. Y'all need to acknowledge that while we wouldn't have had progress under Kamala we also would not have had Alligator Auscwhitz, a near doubling of homeland security's budget, illegal kidnappings/deportations, the US military policing American cities, tariffs, RFK Jr., honestly I could keep going.
  She ran a shit campaign, people were dissatisfied with the former administration. She should never have been there, but all those that decided to abstain damned us all.
  It's like sitting one a sinking ship, throwing all the life jackets overboard, and complaining "well I didn't sink the ship".
  Now millions of people in this country from those in the LGBTQ community to immigrants live in fear. Because some people thought they were so morally superior. Well congrats.
  I don't even like the democrats, but I'm at least capable of realizing that sometimes you have to pick what causes the least amount of harm. Sometimes you can't have an ideal outcome. I'd rather run off the road than plow through children crossing the street. Neither are a good option, but only one is morally correct. And no taking your hands off the wheel and complaining isn't a moral option.
- If you gave all of Harris’s votes to the next leading progressive presidential candidate they’d still lose the election.
  That’s how popular progressive policies are.
  
  Popular enough to take a candidate from polling at 8% to disrupting dynasties in 60 days.
  Keep pretending that Democrats want conservatives and you'll keep losing elections for us. Maybe go be a Republican instead?
  
  Wow, good job! You remembered to inhale and exhale! I know that must be very hard to keep track of for you.
0% of Democrats happy with state of the US right now
MAGA: That's how we know we're doing the right thing!
i can see why
How do those protest votes feel now, assholes?
(to those voters, obvs)
- Currently democrats are having a registration crisis while Republicans are having a boom, so pretty good?
  Like you'd think those numbers would be opposite, maybe they are a continued indictment of the DNC democratic party that continues to ignore any candidate who has organic support like Mamdami.
  
  Never underestimate DNC’s ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
  
  I dropped Dem for DSA in 2016.
  
  I was just listening to an explanation of this effectively fake bit of information this morning. Basically, at least in MA and other states like it, both dems and republicans saw a drop in registration because registrations work differently now. Where registrations are automatic, they don't default to a party affiliation and you have to actively select such, which most people aren't going to do. As a result, an absolutely enormous proportion of registrations are now unaffiliated and BOTH parties are more or less taking a hit--however, because Dems get more registrations historically anyway and many of those are now no longer going in to register just party affiliation, they seem disproportionately hit. End of the day, not much is really changing that we can understand from the voting registrations, but we'll see what happens in the midterms.
- Keep crying instead of fighting trump
Oh for fucks sake. Ya think?
Gallup's polling found Republicans were essentially just as dissatisfied with the direction of the country in July last year as Democrats are today. However, the partisan gap at the time was 35 points because only 36 percent of Democrats were satisfied with the country's direction at the time.
ouch

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