It is less about being on the fence versus being motivated to actually go vote. Most people are like “whatever”, and “my vote doesn’t matter anyhow” and “if I vote, I’m going to get jury duty”. If the politicians can’t get people to vote, they lose.
It is less about being on the fence versus being motivated to actually go vote. Most people are like “whatever”, and “my vote doesn’t matter anyhow” and “if I vote, I’m going to get jury duty”. If the politicians can’t get people to vote, they lose.
When you are campaigning to establish a dictatorship, you don’t need down ballot candidates to win.
Biden is a neoliberal centrist. If leftists vote for him it is because they have no other choice. It is why his support is so weak at the grass roots. And so strong amongst the capitalist elites. His far right opponent is a racist and crook, but runs a strong populist game. Those are our only two choices.
There is a strong movement to hold a constitutional convention before the next election. It is backed by a right wing group called ALEC. They think they have a loophole to make it happen and the new speaker of the house backs the idea. I think if they had a wider majority it would already be happening. They will rewrite the rules to ensure a hard right anti-civil rights candidate wins.
The Supreme Court is setting them free however.