And you decided lesser evil wasn't lesser enough? Now we get greater evil.

Start using language that resonates with blue collar workers, instead of scary commie words. Organize. Organize, again because it's so important. Get elected; start small, don't shoot straight for president: city council, county commissioner, lieutenant governor, climb the ladder and flood government at all levels with hick-coded progressives. Organize, a third time because what's going to give the people the edge is direct open communication between them. This might be the age of the Vtuber senator, lean into it. Caucus with Dems until we have the numbers alone.

It's not impossible, we just have a lot of catching up to do. Lobbyists and PACs aren't intrinsically bad things, they are useful tools to navigate the political landscape. But at the end of the day it's gotta be people-first messaging. Embrace populism, embrace the circus, stop treating the average American as a rational actor. Grassroots propaganda.

How tho

I'm not saying you're incorrect, I'm just saying that, considering the circumstances, it wasn't an unreasonable gamble. Leftists are notoriously stingy with their vote. As long as progressives are unreliable on election day, appealing to proven voters on well-vocalized issues is a safer strategy. It being an unsuccessful strategy doesn't mean it's not the most successful strategy.

It's easy to look back. I sincerely think that, based on research and subsequent speculation, appealing to non-MAGA conservatives was a rational play. It explains Liz Cheney and the whole nothing-will-fundamentally-change angle.

Again, didn't pay off, but I'm sure research showed greater expected returns from conservatives than leftists.

I'm worried more that it won't be effective. Power is a numbers game, be it guns or dollars or people. Presumably, the strength of the left is that, properly communicated, it's the inevitable will of the majority of the people. That's the weapon.

The problem with the left isn't that the message is wrong, it's that it's not being communicated effectively to the people that empower it. If the people were unified, and organized, nothing could stand in their way.

I don't know why everyone keeps insisting that courting the right was a stupid move. I personally know a lot of life long Republicans that got real tired of the MAGA stuff. In this matchup specifically, trying to scoop the conservative-but-not-MAGA vote makes sense by the numbers. Obviously it didn't pan out, but at least in theory, there should be a sizeable bloc of voters there.

My heart wants to like this on principle because that's how geography should be divided, but it looks like garbage. I never really stopped before to appreciate how tidy and professional those arbitrary perpendicular lines look.

That's a monkey's paw wish right there. Electoralism was our alternative to blood in the streets, I would really prefer no blood in the streets.

I've long ascribed to the theory that, if time travel is ever invented, no one kills Hitler because WWII was inevitable and Hitler actually bungled a lot of key decisions. I'm praying Trump is the same. Maybe this is the most painless purging of nationalist sentiment across the timelines.

And we'll get to see what the alternative provides. Yay, you won.

I've been catching a lot of flack lately from other leftists because I've been preaching the lesser evil for 4 months. That's profoundly stupid, but I get it. Maybe I should've shilled even harder, anyway here we are.

At least it'll be nice to stop justifying evil just because it's lesser.