@Blackbeard
@lemmy.worldI directly answered your question, and you seem to have ignored what I said. Plus you really should reexamine your assumptions about the importance of Gaza, the "ease" of withdrawing support, how much Democrats have moved rightward, and how many centrist Republicans vote for Democrats.
Your level of frustration with the process is inversely proportional to your awareness of these trends, of which Democratic leaders are likely well aware. Moreover, you seem to be valuing the strongly-held opinions of voters in non-swing states (what you're calling "deep blue states" or "areas that effectively don't matter") more highly than the maybe-less-strongly held opinions of voters in swing states. If 5% of Democratic voters in California want sushi, and 5% of Democratic voters in Pennsylvania want steak, I'm picking steak and telling the California voters to take a hike. Their opinion doesn't even register on my radar thanks to the electoral consequences of pissing off the Pennsylvanians who wanted steak.
No. If 5% of my voting base sits out over a single issue, I'm going to lose my interest in trying to triangulate their support and move in another direction to identify a more persuadable bloc of voters. That goes more if the abandonment is repetitive, and if the issues constantly change, or if the issue is something I can't bend on for electoral reasons.
If one bloc of voters is easier to please than another, then I'm moving in their direction, even if it's rightward. Unfortunately it's winner-take-all, and you're either in power or you're not. There are no half-wins.
So, first, the way you copy+paste that response is difficult to follow, counterintuitive, and unnecessary.
Second, yes the KPD were often in violent conflict with the centrist parties. Violence had been reciprocal, unfortunately. And I'm not sure why Marx (a centrist) aligning with the DNVP years before undermines the broader point that it wasn't Marx who elevated Hitler to the chancellorship. Sometimes US Democrats have negotiated with Republicans, but that doesn't mean they're responsible for everything Republicans have done or will do.
In this case, Thälmann and the BVP share the blame for not seeing Hitler and the conservatives as a bigger, more existential threat. Whatever threat Thälmann perceived from the SPD, BVP, and Marx's former allies (the DNVP), they obviously dwarfed in comparison to the threat of the Nazis. Not saying their fears were unjustified, mind you, only that they obviously chose wrong by not looking at the bigger picture. Maybe they thought they were doing the right thing in holding true to their principles and not joining forces with the SPD and BVP, but it's obvious now that they should have taken strategic influence more seriously, for all of their sakes.
Edit: Looks like the .ml brigade showed up in force today.
The mistake Ernst Thälmann made was not throwing his support behind checks notes Paul von Hindenburg, the man who ordered the police massacre of the Spartacus League?
Um...no? Von Hindenburg was the conservative. They'd have thrown their support behind the centrist, Wilhelm Marx, who lost by about 3%, thanks (in part) to the 6.3% Thälmann took. The rest of the blame lay with the BVP when they protested against the Social Democrats by siding with von Hindenburg.
Who elevated Adolf Hitler to the Chancellorship in 1933?
Von Hindenburg, with the help of the governing coalition formed by the Nazis and DNVP, all of whom were conservative.
What point are you trying to make?
Wait, aren't ALL of those colors inadvertently transposed? The reds and blues are wrong.
Just wanted to direct folks to !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world, which is a brand new community for exactly these kinds of discussions. Cheers!
We dont need congress to expand the SC court…
Literally all four of those options require legislation to move through the halls of Congress. Did you even read that source?
Removing for editorializing the title, and locked due to multiple violations of Lemmy's ToS.