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You two seem to be somewhat talking at cross purposes.
As far as I can see, what they're saying is that the Dem candidate needs to apeal to Dem voters and those who could be persuaded to vote Dem, to ensure their vote. If Biden turns enough of them off and they don't vote he risks losing. On the other hand dyed in the wool Republican voters probably can't be turned, so there's no point trying to apeal to them.
You seem to be saying that not voting for Biden, despite him being unpopular, risk letting Trump in. That is also true, and it is vital that Trump is stopped, they're just pointing out that that is easier if Biden listens to his base, rather than population wide surveys.
The issue is some people really support the horrible shit Biden is doing, and if the Dem candidate won't do it, then they'll vote Republican.
It happened when Obama managed to beat Hillary in 08. Moderates had a movement to vote Republican over Obama, and they did.
They were just statistically insignificant and Obama had a landslide win that flipped multiple red states and got us the House and Senate.
It's really really hard to get Dem voters to compromise their morals though, moderate Dems need someone horrible they can stand next to and say "we have to stop them!".
The issue is it didn't work in 2016, barely worked in 2020, and by all indications won't work in 2024.
We know what works. But the DNCs corporate donors would prefer a Republican to progressives. So they donate huge amounts during a primary and by the time it's the general there's no way for them to lose.
Have you got any source for that at all?
Sooooo many.
It's not a secret, it was openly all over the place back in 08.
But I feel old realizing some people just weren't politically active back then.
Here's a pre election poll
https://news.gallup.com/poll/105691/mccain-vs-obama-28-clinton-backers-mccain.aspx
Here's a post election article
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-were-those-clinton-mccain-crossover-voters/
Here's a pre election article
https://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/26/clinton.backers/index.html
Here's the Wikipedia article on it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_and_liberal_support_for_John_McCain_in_2008
But this is something that is easily searchable and was an absolute huge news story...
If most people have already forgotten about it, maybe that's the disconnect I've been experiencing? Why people don't realize how much Dems have changed in the last three cycles?
They just genuinely don't know what it was like before trump?
That actually makes a lot of sense, and honestly I should have thought about that.
Before we can get people on board with what we should do, we need to make sure they're aware of what has happened. People don't understand how much they've lost over just a few decades.
So, by the stories you posted yourself, there were people who switched from McCain to Obama after Obama beat Hillary.
Kind of like the 2008 election had two good candidates who respected the system and each other.
Nice try.
https://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/26/clinton.backers/index.html
You missed one I guess
Well. At least one.
You're hilarious.
Yes, one person is exactly the same as a mass movement. The subject got headlines because she was rare.
You were trying to imply that after Obama got the nod there was a mass migration from the Dems to McCain, and that loss was only made up by a massive Left tsunami that had sat out the primaries.
So you didn't read the Wikipedia link either?
Or the poll it referenced? I linked that too
Nope, I said:
Like, it seems the issue is your drastically underestimating how disproportionately moderate party leads represent the very very tiny percentage of Dem voters who are "moderate". The moderates are not the bulk of the party, they never were.
But to be honest, it doesn't seem like you're interested in actual talking about this, you keep trying to turn this into an argument...
So, literally no mass movemnet by "Moderates" trying to screw over the Left.
I don't want to talk about it because it's meaningless.
Recap of "ancient" history:
On 9/11/01 terrorists attacked America...
This made everyone embrace a shitty leader and even questioning them led to social outcasting for years
The facts that 08 matched the first election since 9/11 is too illustrate how fucking huge it was...
But honestly, if I don't block you now, you're going to say something else that is so easy to explain I take the two seconds. You haven't learned anything yet, I doubt you will if I put more time in.