09-04-2022, 09:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-05-2022, 01:28 AM by Eric the Green.)
(09-04-2022, 08:25 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:(09-04-2022, 06:36 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: We don't need the votes of libertarians and conservatives. It will be up to them how many are willing to make peace and go along, rather than act out their ridiculous fantasies and grievances."We don't need the votes of libertarians and conservatives".
*literally talks about how you need them to go along right afterword*
Anyway, any system that "doesn't need (insert 50%+ of the population here)" cannot be called a democracy. Even Trump won his first term by appealing to poor liberals who needed manufacturing jobs.
We may not "need" them to go along. If they want to continue to rebel, then they will continue to be put down if they do it violently, and I hope defeated at the polls if they don't. But admittedly, as I have said, conservatives can make a comeback in 1Ts, we all know that. I suspect a moderate Republican, at least, may have a chance to win in 2032 or 2036, especially if this person is Spencer Cox or even Ivanka Trump.
Donald Trump deceived people to think he was interested in poor liberals who needed manufacturing jobs. They were no longer liberals if they voted for Trump, because Trump was just making promises of outcomes; what he proposed about how to accomplish this was just more Republican neoliberalism.
Democrats will need the votes of moderates, though. We'll need enough of them to realize that democracy is better than the tyranny and corruption that Trump offers, and that Biden stands up against-- and for reform to strengthen democracy, as he explained in one of his speeches here. He also mentioned in this speech how not a single Republican supported him in this. Republicans today may be conservatives, but they are not moderates. None of them are; none of them in congress at least, and not in many other places today. They are merely different degrees of conservative, and mostly extreme right.