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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 34m

This thread seems to indicate that that theory is correct.

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 35m

The same thing is true of term limits as opposed to age restrictions. Except even on a bigger scale.

𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 36m

I think something people are not considering is that if you enacted this age limit in a state like Maine or New Hampshire it would mean that three times the number of open seats would be available in the next election and it would mean that each of those seats can be more easily bought with money.

Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 2h

Nothing against Mills personally but party bodies and legislative caucuses could voluntarily adopt retirement ages for elected officials.

"Will you be 80 or older if you run for re-election?" seems like a reasonable cutoff without creating new problems.

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 37m

What does this have to do with stancil?

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 44m

If half of the electorate thinks that you are too far to the left even when you are on the right, how many would say you’re too far left if you’re on the left? 70%?

𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 45m

And at the exact same time, all of the people who are actually to the left, believe that their candidates are too far to the right and so they also refused to participate, even when they would be very helpful.

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 45m

We are caught in a trap where every time candidates run those states they are painted as too far to the left, regardless of their actual political views, and even if they are mostly republican in their views. For some reason, this is impossible to counter.

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 46m

The main job of a political party is to win elections. And you really just can’t do it with our coalition anymore. Not in the purple states anyway. And if you can’t win, the purple states, then you will never have a majority…

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 46m

I keep coming back to the conclusion that the future is basically fucked. If we are too far to the left to win and we are also too far to the right to win, then we can’t win?

And when you add the fact that more people are becoming republican, then I just don’t know how to counter that.

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 50m

I don’t really know why they think this is an effective method, but it’s clearly not effective in my view.

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 50m

I don’t see refusal to participate as a valid option, but most Americans see it as the main option.

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 51m

I don’t agree with this hypothesis, but a lot of Americans believe that voting is not a choice between the candidates, but instead a choice between your own ideals, and the ones that are the ideals of the candidates.

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 51m

And this is mainly because our coalition is made up of diverse people who disagree on a lot of topics. And when any individual topic is basically considered a reason to not vote at all.

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 52m

If I were a betting person, I would probably be 80% sure we lose the next election at least on the presidential level.

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 52m

I’m asking all these questions because I really just don’t know where we go from here because if we go to the left and it’s already been proven to make us lose the elections then isn’t that just kind of like committing suicide?

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 53m

Do we think that most of the people who voted for Joe Biden would also vote for a candidate that is to his left? Would they have to be dragged kicking and screaming?

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 54m

Or will this have a reciprocal effect where it takes all of the current voters and makes them not like the party anymore?

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 55m

Is there any possible way that we can make up for that by getting people who are further to the left to vote instead of staying home? And if that’s what we are supposed to try and do, will there be enough of them?

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 56m

In the past four years about 4.5 million Americans have switched their party to Republican!

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 58m

How do we overcome the curse if no matter what our candidate will alienate a large portion of their own party? And how do we get there to be more democrats if people are becoming Republicans by the millions?

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 58m

Is it going to be the type of scenario where we will always lose half of our coalition depending on the perception or reality of the candidate?

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 59m

And if the correct answer is for them to actually act like they are very far to the left then how do we keep the moderate in the coalition who obviously already think that even Harris was very too far to the left?

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 1h

& in either case, how do we turn this around so that in the next election people will embrace left positions? Does it have to be where the candidate is left but doesn’t act like it? And if that’s the case, then how do we keep the actual left people on board if they are pretending to be conservative?

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 1h

Around the time of the election, I saw a pole that said 47% of people thought Harris was too far to the left and only 10% of people thought she was too far to the right. Is this where the people are lying to the polling agency or do people consider it to be the truth?

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𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 1h

According to the polling in every single one of the major swing states like Pennsylvania and Ohio, the voters rejected Harris mainly because they saw her as way too far to the left. Does anyone have an explanation for this? And if she was perceived as far left, then why didn’t leftists vote for her?