Maybe citizens shouldn’t have to register to vote, eh? But we can’t have that, it would be democratic.
Democrats are a centrist party in an age of hyper partisanship. It sucks because the formula of heavily regulated capitalism works really well, we just don’t seem to have enough people interested in it.
…caused by Republican politicians that try to make it as difficult, inconvenient, and discouraging as possible to register to vote.
The Democrats will likely splinter into two parties, one led Mamdani/AOC and the other led by Newsom/Pritzker. See what happened today in the Minneapolis mayor’s race.
Corporate democrats take money from United Health just as much as corporate Republicans. They break laws and support dirty cops just like Republicans do. People are just now seeing that the establishment democrats aren’t much better than the republicans. . The NYC mayors race will be interesting.
It turns out that standing for nothing except grifting billions of dollars in donations is not in fact a good strategy for a political apparatus.
Who knew
The Democratic Party has a bought-and-paid-for crisis. Same as the RNC.
If I remember, the general gist of this article is just complaining that the Democrats aren’t paying anybody as much money as Charlie Kirk is being paid to get people registered. The thing is that the majority of people who are registered to vote aren’t registered through a party.
The liberal logic is so hilarious lol the mental illness is strong.
I really wish they told us the rate of new registrations since the election. Doesn’t the way the data is grouped (e.g. current totals since 2020) mostly tell us a lot of people signed up to vote for Trump in 2024? If so that has already been widely discussed.
I may be missing some nuance there – but feels like they have the answer to “who has registered more new voters since Jan 2025” and chose not to include it.
People don’t want to register as democrats because they fear becoming targets of the fascist regime.
If I recall correctly, there are something like 15 million more registered Democrats than Republicans. If all of them voted, I assume they would always have the majority.
Democratic party, I’m not aware of such a thing. Perhaps you were referring to the near unopposed Christo-fascism party currently in power. Or perhaps you were referring to the Corporate pandering party that claims to oppose them. Either way, there’s not many parties that actually represent “democratic” voters.
It’s not a Democratic “voter registration crisis”, that’s absolute bullshit.
It’s the Republican Party engaging in *rampant* voter suppression, which they’ve been doing for *decades*.
Let’s identify the problem correctly, and blame the guilty party here — the GOP/MAGA.
The Democratic Party is in crisis because it’s been representing Republicans from 10 years ago for 30 years.
The arrogance on display in the quotes of this article is astounding and should be telling. Some interesting numbers
This country political system is cooked. It’s just moving by inertia. I registered as independent last month, after being a Democrat for about a decade. Why? Because I’m a naturalized citizen and I’m sure once they run out of “illegal immigrants” they will start revoking citizenship to people based on whatever excuse they can come up with, so probably not being a democrat might help. No one will stop them. While people are questioning the legality of the acts they already moved on to the next fucking crime.
Even if somehow you get some centrist Democrat back in office (good luck with that) all they do is press pause for 4-8 years and then you’re back with some other tyrant that keeps dismantling everything. I know how to survive a dictatorship, it’s not my first. Best of luck out there!
I remember reading Taylor Swift got a ton of people to register for the 2024 election.
….that sure worked out for the youth vote.
The Democratic Party’s only election tactic appears to be just stand around doing nothing and let the GOP be as disgusting as can be on the assumption that it will eventually become unelectable. That tactic is clearly not working and the Democratic Party deserves to die. Its only “hope” is that when US democracy itself is fully dead (sometime next year?) the GOP will need a malleable token opposition to maintain a facade of choice. The Democratic Party should fit right in for that role.
If you have Jeffries and Schumer running the party, things are going to get flaccid very fast, unless you’re a member of AIPAC.
If you’re a member of AIPAC sponsoring “settlers” (people who go into historically Palestinian land and murder those people and take their land), Jeffries and Schumer are A-1.
Simple.
For a number of reasons – many self-inflicted – Democrats created a party that mostly singularly appeals to coastal, highly educated women and almost all current ‘blue states’ reside along I-95 or I-5 with most democratic voters concentrated in a few large coastal cities. From DEI to College loan forgiveness to Trans-rights to prison & crime reform to homelessness Democrats continue to push and support programs that don’t play well outside of the large coastal cities.
What’s more surprising is how heavy the defection of asian, latin/hispanic and black voters – mainly male – to the Republican Party has been but it generally re-enforces the idea that a new trend has appeared that now sex plays a bigger party in party identity & adoption compared to more traditional factors like race, religion, and ethnicity.
The main problem for Democrats however remains white voters w/ some or no college degrees. Be it Nebraska or Texas or Florida – white voters w/ some to no college represent the largest voting bloc demographic in every single state in the U.S and simply cannot win without’m.
When your party responds to outright blistering levels of fascism with “strongly worded letters” and “furrowed brow yet again” it’s hard to see that your vote will matter.
The whole idea of large numbers of voters being registered with a party is a bit strange to us in Australia. All adult citizens vote but only maybe 1% are actual members of a political party.
The US primary system is unique
Maybe establishment Democrats having a lower approval rating than Trump has something to do with this. Maybe attacking the most popular leftist members of our party but not the Republicans ruining the country has something to do with this……..
Nahhhhhhhh where’s Liz Cheney for my cash out book tour?!?!
why do you have to register your party preference at a DMV?
It stands for nothing and represents no one. Crucially, it refused to uphold the rule of law when it mattered. There is no reason to maintain membership in a club where the dues are high and there are no benefits.
The Democratic party is at the weakest it’s been in about a century. I mean they are struggling to keep the Senate competitive right now. The electoral college does them no favors either.
Right now, if every state that voted for Trump in the past 3 elections, which is 25 states, votes for a Republican senator then the GOP should easily net 50 seats.
I mean unless the political landscape shifts, Democrats’ roof in the Senate should be 52 seats with the 19 blue states + 7 swing states. Compare that to the 62 that Republicans’ roof is with 24 red states + 7 swing states.
The 2030 census is probably going to be a bloodbath too for blue states where seats from California/New York will go to Texas, Florida, and probably North Carolina.
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Maybe citizens shouldn’t have to register to vote, eh? But we can’t have that, it would be democratic.
Democrats are a centrist party in an age of hyper partisanship. It sucks because the formula of heavily regulated capitalism works really well, we just don’t seem to have enough people interested in it.
…caused by Republican politicians that try to make it as difficult, inconvenient, and discouraging as possible to register to vote.
The Democrats will likely splinter into two parties, one led Mamdani/AOC and the other led by Newsom/Pritzker. See what happened today in the Minneapolis mayor’s race.
Corporate democrats take money from United Health just as much as corporate Republicans. They break laws and support dirty cops just like Republicans do. People are just now seeing that the establishment democrats aren’t much better than the republicans. . The NYC mayors race will be interesting.
It turns out that standing for nothing except grifting billions of dollars in donations is not in fact a good strategy for a political apparatus.
Who knew
The Democratic Party has a bought-and-paid-for crisis. Same as the RNC.
If I remember, the general gist of this article is just complaining that the Democrats aren’t paying anybody as much money as Charlie Kirk is being paid to get people registered. The thing is that the majority of people who are registered to vote aren’t registered through a party.
The liberal logic is so hilarious lol the mental illness is strong.
I really wish they told us the rate of new registrations since the election. Doesn’t the way the data is grouped (e.g. current totals since 2020) mostly tell us a lot of people signed up to vote for Trump in 2024? If so that has already been widely discussed.
I may be missing some nuance there – but feels like they have the answer to “who has registered more new voters since Jan 2025” and chose not to include it.
People don’t want to register as democrats because they fear becoming targets of the fascist regime.
If I recall correctly, there are something like 15 million more registered Democrats than Republicans. If all of them voted, I assume they would always have the majority.
Democratic party, I’m not aware of such a thing. Perhaps you were referring to the near unopposed Christo-fascism party currently in power. Or perhaps you were referring to the Corporate pandering party that claims to oppose them. Either way, there’s not many parties that actually represent “democratic” voters.
It’s not a Democratic “voter registration crisis”, that’s absolute bullshit.
It’s the Republican Party engaging in *rampant* voter suppression, which they’ve been doing for *decades*.
Let’s identify the problem correctly, and blame the guilty party here — the GOP/MAGA.
The Democratic Party is in crisis because it’s been representing Republicans from 10 years ago for 30 years.
The arrogance on display in the quotes of this article is astounding and should be telling. Some interesting numbers
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This country political system is cooked. It’s just moving by inertia. I registered as independent last month, after being a Democrat for about a decade. Why? Because I’m a naturalized citizen and I’m sure once they run out of “illegal immigrants” they will start revoking citizenship to people based on whatever excuse they can come up with, so probably not being a democrat might help. No one will stop them. While people are questioning the legality of the acts they already moved on to the next fucking crime.
Even if somehow you get some centrist Democrat back in office (good luck with that) all they do is press pause for 4-8 years and then you’re back with some other tyrant that keeps dismantling everything. I know how to survive a dictatorship, it’s not my first. Best of luck out there!
I remember reading Taylor Swift got a ton of people to register for the 2024 election.
….that sure worked out for the youth vote.
The Democratic Party’s only election tactic appears to be just stand around doing nothing and let the GOP be as disgusting as can be on the assumption that it will eventually become unelectable. That tactic is clearly not working and the Democratic Party deserves to die. Its only “hope” is that when US democracy itself is fully dead (sometime next year?) the GOP will need a malleable token opposition to maintain a facade of choice. The Democratic Party should fit right in for that role.
If you have Jeffries and Schumer running the party, things are going to get flaccid very fast, unless you’re a member of AIPAC.
If you’re a member of AIPAC sponsoring “settlers” (people who go into historically Palestinian land and murder those people and take their land), Jeffries and Schumer are A-1.
Simple.
For a number of reasons – many self-inflicted – Democrats created a party that mostly singularly appeals to coastal, highly educated women and almost all current ‘blue states’ reside along I-95 or I-5 with most democratic voters concentrated in a few large coastal cities. From DEI to College loan forgiveness to Trans-rights to prison & crime reform to homelessness Democrats continue to push and support programs that don’t play well outside of the large coastal cities.
What’s more surprising is how heavy the defection of asian, latin/hispanic and black voters – mainly male – to the Republican Party has been but it generally re-enforces the idea that a new trend has appeared that now sex plays a bigger party in party identity & adoption compared to more traditional factors like race, religion, and ethnicity.
The main problem for Democrats however remains white voters w/ some or no college degrees. Be it Nebraska or Texas or Florida – white voters w/ some to no college represent the largest voting bloc demographic in every single state in the U.S and simply cannot win without’m.
When your party responds to outright blistering levels of fascism with “strongly worded letters” and “furrowed brow yet again” it’s hard to see that your vote will matter.
The whole idea of large numbers of voters being registered with a party is a bit strange to us in Australia. All adult citizens vote but only maybe 1% are actual members of a political party.
The US primary system is unique
Maybe establishment Democrats having a lower approval rating than Trump has something to do with this. Maybe attacking the most popular leftist members of our party but not the Republicans ruining the country has something to do with this……..
Nahhhhhhhh where’s Liz Cheney for my cash out book tour?!?!
why do you have to register your party preference at a DMV?
It stands for nothing and represents no one. Crucially, it refused to uphold the rule of law when it mattered. There is no reason to maintain membership in a club where the dues are high and there are no benefits.
The Democratic party is at the weakest it’s been in about a century. I mean they are struggling to keep the Senate competitive right now. The electoral college does them no favors either.
Right now, if every state that voted for Trump in the past 3 elections, which is 25 states, votes for a Republican senator then the GOP should easily net 50 seats.
I mean unless the political landscape shifts, Democrats’ roof in the Senate should be 52 seats with the 19 blue states + 7 swing states. Compare that to the 62 that Republicans’ roof is with 24 red states + 7 swing states.
The 2030 census is probably going to be a bloodbath too for blue states where seats from California/New York will go to Texas, Florida, and probably North Carolina.
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