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Dude this is so simple. Where is the Overton window because of Trump's victory? It's fucking off the cliff right because of Trump's victory. There are conversations taking place now that would have been unimaginable before Trump won. And they are taking place because Trump won.
We can even play the hypothetical. Where would it be if Hillary Clinton won? Fucking easy, it would be further left. Or the hypothetical what it Trump won a second term? Fucking easy again, it would be even further right - because all his rhetoric would be backed up with wins that this is what the people want.
To talk like the Overton window is not affected by election wins is sticking your head in the sand. It's literally a referendum on what is and what is not acceptable policy and talking points be it social, economic, thinly belief racism, everything. This is so fucking easy to see.
I'm not saying election wins don't affect it, I'm saying how our elected officials behave while in office affect it even more, both intentionally and unintentionally.
If your opponents are talking about and implementing far-right nonsense, you push against the opposite edge of the window -- staying in the cetre just lets them push more to the right. Democrats always running to the center is primarily how we got here in the first place. You are inadvertently arguing that we follow Republicans further to the right as they continue to push against the edge of the window.
Up to now you could have fooled me because you certainly sounded like you were saying elections don't affect it.
So how they act. Hmmmmmmmmmm. I wonder how Trump acted while in office. Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Come the fuck on. You already know exactly how this plays out. Do I have to keep talking? Fine. Trump acted extremely right wing while in office and guess fucking what? It moved fucking right. And he could because he fucking won the election. You're basically agreeing without even realizing it.
Dems go to the center in order to win. JFC. This is so easy. When you run against an incumbent you have to run from the center. That was Bill Clinton and Biden. Hillary Clinton went a smidge left with the climate change war room and lost. Guess what the Dems learned from that. Hmmmmmmm. They learned to stay in the fucking middle in order to win.
JFC I'm not saying follow Republicans right in any way. What are you smoking. That doesn't even warrant saying anything else. But fuck I guess I have to keep hammering it home huh. You move left by consistently and overwhelming winning elections. The more you win, the more left you can move. JFC this is easy. I don't know if I'm going to reply any more because I'm just repeating myself and you don't understand anything (or you do but want to twist yourself into knots to excuse yourself from not voting. Actually that's likely.)
Why is it that you claim Democrats need "consistent and overwhelming" victory, when Republicans have managed to shift the Overton window without that?
Oh maybe because of fucking 9/11. JFC.
Or maybe because they obstruct fucking everything. JFC. And then they can stack the courts. C'mon think about this.
Or maybe because they have fucking Fox News spewing propaganda. JFC can you not see this?
Or maybe because actual intellectual policies need time and support, instead of GOP appealing to fear and hysteria. And needs support of fucking congress (both houses!) to actually pass things and get things done. Cmon this is obvious. Do you get that? Dems essentially need all 3 to do practically anything (and still needs to get past the filibuster). Whereas the GOP gets on just fine by not doing anything. Gop gets 1 or 2 of those 3 and they can block so much.
Or maybe because the Dems still try to reach across the aisle. While the GOP doesn't. Cmon.
That's just off the top of my head. Come the fuck on, think about this instead of just trying to justify not voting out of protest. Why am I bothering. You have do a lot better than this.
I never said I wasn't voting, or that others shouldn't.
This is what I'm saying! Democrats keep trying to meet Republicans in the middle, and Republicans just push further and further to the right. That is, regardless of intention, enabling! I feel like you are asking the world of voters, when the party itself won't even play hardball with the fascist nutjobs they're supposed to be opposing
JFC, why can the GOP obstruct? Because they can when they have a majority in EITHER the house or senate. And they can get that at any point. Read that again, they can get that at any fucking point. It's not from Dems meeting in the middle just because. Come the fuck on. You don't even know what's going on.
So WHEN the GOP has ONE of those, the Dems are FORCED to reach across the aisle. Why do I think I have to caps certain words for you to understand. Fucking forced to. Because you/voters didn't give them the house or the senate. And if they don't reach across the aisle the whole fucking government will be shut down just like they did to Obama. You can't play fucking hardball, do you have any clue what will happen if the country defaults on its debt? Come the fuck on, you don't even know how things work but you want to blame Dems. JFC. You seriously have no clue how things work. Sorry not sorry, but you have no clue.
So how do you make sure the GOP doesn't get one of them so they can obstruct, which FORCES the Dems to reach across the aisle? You fucking vote. JFC. This is so fucking simple to understand. Vote. Give the Dems all 3 consistently and things can move.