US Politics on Yik Yak | I will never understand this mindset. Republicans have made it ABUNDANTLY clear that they will not meet Dems halfway in any capacity. If I wanted have Republican leadership, I would just vote Republican. Democrat centrism is what’s killing the country.

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I will never understand this mindset. Republicans have made it ABUNDANTLY clear that they will not meet Dems halfway in any capacity. If I wanted have Republican leadership, I would just vote Republican. Democrat centrism is what’s killing the country.

71 upvotes, 23 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "I will never understand this mindset.

Republicans have made it ABUNDANTLY clear that they will not meet Dems halfway in any capacity.

If I wanted have Republican leadership, I would just vote Republican.

Democrat centrism is what’s killing the country."

Anonymous 1d

I don’t think you get this for dem’s in super conservative states. WE ARE OUT NUMBERED 5 to 1. We don’t get elected or power without negotiating. You want her to go full left you gift the Republican Party a unanimous sweep in the state.

Anonymous 1d

Ohio is a deep-red state, this is a good idea

Anonymous 1d

So the solution to republicans refusing to work with dems is for Dems to refuse to work with republicans? That’ll go well

Anonymous

#1 1d

Name 1 Democrat currently in a leadership role in the Trump admin. I’ll wait.

Anonymous

OP 1d

You’re only proving my point

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Anonymous

#2 1d

If this was say NY or CA, I would agree that this isn’t a good idea

Anonymous

#3 1d

Some people just don’t get it. Everywhere is not like NYC, where a whole socialist can win with a fair bit of ease. Most places have a *lot* of frustrating moderates/indies who want concessions

Anonymous

#2 1d

And in the case of OH, conservatives. Lots of them

Anonymous

#2 1d

I’m from TN there are three non negotiables. 1. Guns 2. The current tax rate 3. Christianity will be taught in schools. If I want things like adequate education budget, food for my students, disability services ( I’m a sped teacher), healthcare and so on. There is no far left candidate who can even get off the ground. They get crushed and bullied out of the state before they can even get out of primaries.

Anonymous

#3 1d

Didn’t you guys have a moderate democrat as governor until like 2010?

Anonymous

#2 1d

Yes he won until 2011 but major population shifts have occurred. Democrats that live in TN have moved to liberal states. The rapid influx of population is conservatives leaving liberal states. We’ve essentially become a conservative utopia.

Anonymous

#3 23h

Progressive candidates would win in red areas in a landslide if they ran policies people actually cared about instead of running on "I'm not Republican"

Anonymous

#1 19h

I don’t think that is the answer either but a lot of times when democrats say stuff like this, they lose the support of people like leftists in order to appeal to moderates

Anonymous

#4 19h

Except running on I’m not republican is what wins here. Progressive policies die on day one.

Anonymous

#3 18h

Not true at all 💀 Dems have never run any progressive policies. Actually the few times they have, they won by a landslide! (Obama's healthcare, biden's student loan forgiveness) Too bad they never deliver on them. Kamala didn't run on ANYTHING progressive so she lost. (No, abortion rights are not progressive anymore)

Anonymous

#4 18h

READ MY RESPONSE. Not talking about federally. I’m talking about a state that population wise is so deep red you are literally unable to even wear a Democrat label. It is a political death sentence in Tennessee. I voted for Biden and Kamala. But they could never have had a political career in TN. They’d never get elected in this climate.

Anonymous

#4 18h

Sorry but this is why we fucking hate you. You do this every single time and apply national logic to something that isn’t nationalized. Live where I lived. Where every house had a trump sign, every election was about church, and every ounce of your schooling was about Christ. You can’t bring a progressive policy there. They are tuned out immediately but that’s your district. You can’t get a Democrat elected in my district because the population reads the name and is tuned out.

Anonymous

#3 16h

You are so delusional it's crazy.

Anonymous

#4 16h

No what’s crazy is refusing to acknowledge how deep red some of these places are. You cannot win the way you believe you can where I’m from. Nationally yes here no. The game is imperfect. I get annoyed by being called out constantly for not being blue enough. Guess what be thankful I’m not voting the other way and that’s all you can be thankful for.

Anonymous

#4 16h

I challenge you to go to west Tennessee and find your democrats. They don’t exist there. To even get elected in my district you are either republican or independent.

Anonymous

#3 15h

I acknowledge it. I also know that there is historical precedent for that not being an issue in times of economic crises. Like we're in now. Kamala had the most winnable election in history, and she fumbled it. She chose to run on hatred, bigotry, militarism, and corporate profits. Unfortunately, republicans have a monopoly on that rhetoric, so they won by a landslide.

Anonymous

#3 15h

I'm not saying she would WIN places like that. Just that she could have easily won the election as whole if she instead ran on things like free or assisted childcare, cheaper groceries for all, cheaper gas for all, etc. She may have mentioned things like gas and groceries in passing, but they were not at the front of her campaign the way border control and military might were. Student loan forgiveness is what helped Biden win (but he didn't actually do it…)

Anonymous

#4 15h

> I'm not saying she would WIN in places like that ^Like the cherry-picked sundown towns you're talking about. My original comment however was referring to politics at all levels, and obviously not in places so bigoted that minorities still get strung up on trees.