His opponent is Kari fucking Lake, so I guess he figures we’ll just roll over and take it. The country is more fucked up and hopelessly mired in systems of violent subjugation than I’ve ever seen in my lifetime and I have no idea what to do about it other than share the news and volunteer in my community.

Walk me through your thought process here. You do understand that “representing the concerns of supporters and constituents” is a core part of being an elected official in a representative democracy, right? RIGHT?

Yeah I agree, it’s encouraging for the short term, and I must emphasize that it is absolutely imperative that we defeat the GOP in this election over anything else.

However it’s concerning to see the Dems tracking to the right inch by inch. We need to make sure we’re making allies on the left while we do elect Kamala, so that we have a stronger leftist coalition for the coming years.

This is unfortunately, by design.

It’s a bad design, but it is working as intended by the people who fought against establishing a true democracy in the US originally.

The electoral system and gerrymandering make it so a two party solution is the only real system that works; and one of those parties will always be moving away from the other, while the other has to move closer to the middle every time to “recapture” the voters who also shifted further from center.

It’s a bad system, and it needs an overhaul/update desperately. Other countries that have established democratic systems of government since the US was established (and is technically, on record, the “oldest” democracy. If you squint.) have superior constitutions and systems of government that ensure free and fair electoral practices where candidates don’t have to appeal to moderates because even edge case parties are still represented in their house of representatives.