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Wake-up Call: Democrats could easily lose the White House and Senate next year
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A question to American Lemmy users: from what I can tell you are Democrats for the vast majority : would you consider voting for a Republican president if you aligned with his ideas, or if the Democrat candidate was an unredeemable piece of shit? The two party system makes zero sense to me because it doesn't seem, at first glance, that they're a huge overlap, people are not willing to go to the other side often, it seems. .. what's the point of having debates and stuff then?
So, the issue we see is that the republican party has often run democrats, and then had them flip to republican after election.
I don't trust most democrats either at this point.
Oof, could you give an example? Not calling you a liar; I'm just a young person trying to catch up lol
Synema and Manchin are the two biggest recent examples. They ran as dems but side with the GOP when convenient.
If you're looking at the Senate it's actually the other way around in the last decade. With the house and other offices it's much harder to say who does it more. I don't think it's any sort of conspiracy or playbook, just something that makes the news and sticks in people's memory when it happens... It's a betrayal after all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_party_switchers_in_the_United_States.
Thanks! I didn't think to search Wikipedia; that was really helpful :)
Christ. In 2023 there was 1 Republican who swapped to Democrat.
In the same year there was 12 Democrats who swapped to Republican.
Nope. No issue with the parties at all. Only one is clearly the problem for sure.