Actually, Voter Shaming Doesn’t Work
jacobin.com
Voter shaming has never been an effective tactic, but the fact that it’s being discussed as one by the likes of Pod Save America’s hosts speaks to the increasingly post-democratic sentiments that have become common among elite liberals.

In the political cosmology of something that calls itself the “Democratic Party,” it is now a widespread belief that support is owed from below rather than earned from above. Instead of building popular coalitions by seeking to represent the hopes, dreams, and interests of a democratic majority, a posture of absolute, uncritical deference toward elite politicians is presumed to be axiomatic — even when an election is still well over a year away.

I shared this on a different instance some months ago, but with this new instance open it might find a different reception.

      • wildcherry
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        4 months ago

        It’s not divisive to state what is obvious to anybody with a tiny bit of political knowledge. Liberals are only the left in the US because the center there is the right. In normal countries, liberals are not the left. Sorry to break your bubble.