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I’m not talking about a nebulous amount of time, I mean like within one month. I’m happy to put a limit on it. I could even be talked down to 2 weeks. I usually don’t even mention this, because unless it’s within a few days of the window, I don’t care. But now we’re in that window.
I’m not demanding this of left wingers, nor of anyone. Right wingers surely won’t listen to me of all people, and they’re a lost cause regardless. I am talking to my own ‘side’, I guess. I’m saying we should stop attacking one another for a minute if we actually want progress.
But by all means, continue.
I'm not trying to pin this all on your specifically, just saying that there is always someone, no matter the moment, asking for the same thing, and collectively, it shuts down dissent and helps ensure we'll be in the same situation the election after this, and so on. When there's always someone willing to shut down the discussion and make sure criticism cannot be expressed of our dear leaders, that's part of how we wind up with ghouls like Schumer in office so long after they should have already been bounced to the curb. It's the constituent version of how the Dems always have a Lieberman, Manchin or Fetterman in the Senate to make sure they can kneecap any broadly popular laws that might harm the financial interests of their patrons. It might not always be the same one, but they're always present.
Besides, I kind of doubt the sort of politically uninformed voters who are still looking at this going "Gee, I don't know. I don't like any of the policies the Republicans have implemented, but I could see myself having a beer and a burger with their candidate to be Rep for my district, but the other guy is vegan, so no burgers. I guess I'll go GOP this time," are the ones coming 10 comments deep in a political community on a niche site like Lemmy to make up their minds. Like, fair enough if you said you were doing that on facebook or something, but you're preaching to the choir here. Lemmy isn't really known for its massive right-wing voter base, outside the trolls, and you're about as likely to convince them to switch parties as you are to get the "Putin and Xi have never done anything wrong" crowd to suddenly decide they'll start unreservedly stumping for the Dems.