See, the thing about threatening people with the GOP winning instead is that many of us live under them already. If I didn't vote in the next election, nothing changes for me. I'll still live under the fascists you are talking about.
Sure if you live in a red state that's not competitive, and has horrible policies, and your local level is also fully Republican, then that sucks, and I understand your apathy. You probably want big changes that incidentally affect you, but have no way to actually make it happen beyond tossing money to non-local campaigns.
But for others of us who have stakes in the game, and live in competitive areas, well we still need to vote no matter what.
1. you don't need 60 senate votes if you abolish the filibuster
2. the senate is inherently undemocratic and gives disproportionate power to rural areas. solving that issue would take a long time, but maybe a first step would be to ensure that the US no longer has colonies without representation in congress. it is a disgrace that in our lord's year of 2021, if you reside in the wrong parts of the country, you don't have full democratic representation. granting statehood to each territory should have been the first step democrats took after taking both chambers of congress and the presidency.
3. if you can't get people to vote for you, maybe introspection about how you can better inspire people to vote for you is more productive than calling voters stupid
4. fascism has rigged the system and made it more difficult for some groups of people to vote than for others. election participation rares are significantly stratified by racial groups and income brackets and this is by design and the consequence of carefully designed racist and classist policies. calling people who were disenfranchised by racist and classist policies stupid is not only dumb as hell, but also comes off as racist and classist
1. It's hard to abolish the filibuster with only 50 votes, and you need to rely on a Senator from a deep red state to get it done.
2. I absolutely agree with this. A lot of Democrats actually agree with this too. There was a push for at least DC statehood. Didn't end up going anywhere because we can't get past part 1.
3. Inspiration doesn't really work when it is proven time and time again that voters simply reflexively backlash against government during the midterms. What are your thoughts on a better message?
4. Calling voters who vote simply because of a reflexive "throw them all out they are greedy crooks message" or because they fall for anti-vaxxer or CRT bullshit makes me a racist? Seriously...
While I agree with the general sentiment that Dems are the lesser of 2 evils, you can also add a lot of horrific things that were done under Dem presidents.
I vote for them to reduce harm, but you can't just blame voters for them constantly losing. They lose because they are mostly status quo garbage.
Sure... plenty of horrific things were done under Democratic presidents. Can you name a time recently when Republican presidents stopped those policies? I can only think of the First Step Act, but even that is just a pebble throw., and that was something which passed the House/Senate with no Democrat opposition and the only opposition was Republican.
