"Biden failing will be the jolt the Democratic party needs to move to the left!" like I envy you that you think we have enough time to wait for ideological shifts
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Replying to @iphone_venez @Nymphomachy
“Hillary failing will...” “Kerry failing will...” “Gore failing will...” A huge part of the problem the US has us that both parties respond to electoral defeat by moving right.
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Replying to @iphone_venez @Nymphomachy
People say the Dems took all the wrong lessons from McGovern, but I think it was the one-two punch of *two* landslide defeats, with the Reagan Revolution happening *after* Watergate should've left the GOP in the wilderness for a generation, that really killed the Boomers' hope
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
It didn't help that after Watergate there was no narrative about how McGovern had been robbed, instead everyone just sighed and was like "Nixon played himself, McGovern would've lost anyway" Which is true, but still
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Anyway maybe that generation of young people always sucked more than advertised During the '72 election Nixon met with one of the student organizers and said "Is there any way I can get your vote" and the reply was "It depends on whether we're still in Vietnam in November"
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They had one thing they cared about, which was not being drafted, and when that was no longer a realistic possibility all the air went out of McGovern's planned-for youth vote And most of them voted for Reagan eight years later
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Every electoral defeat hurts and is never double secret reverse "worth it"
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