Seattle’s current city attorney is a trump backing Republican who was elected all because Seattle at the time was too scared of a candidate who once talked about abolishing the police

Election results say otherwise

But she lost because voters were convinced she ran on that leftists policy. Whether she actually did doesn’t change the intentions of the voters.

This is another good example of leftist policies causing an election loss. Even in a place as blue as Seattle.

Friday’s proposal to permanently ban hemp THC comes after years of complaints from California’s licensed marijuana industry, which has claimed that it faces unfair competition from unregulated hemp companies. Marijuana companies face sky-high regulatory costs, especially in California, and can only sell their products through state-licensed retailers. Hemp companies, on the other hand, face almost no regulations and have historically been able to sell their intoxicating drugs almost anywhere, including liquor stores, grocery stores and online.

This disparity between the two industries has created pressure on governors like Newsom to protect their state-regulated cannabis companies.

This decision makes sense to me.

It’s weird that every time someone goes against Trump there is an effort to manufacture consent to hate those people.

The majority of voters didn’t plead for that

So you’re saying you think both sides are the same.

If politicians could just ignore voters they wouldn’t spend money on campaigns and propaganda.

Voters are getting what they voted for even if it is not in their best interest.

Bribes are part of it. But as recent progressive candidates found out, those donations also make or break an election.

The system is broken in a way that favors campaigns with funding.

These tactics work with voters. That’s how the GOP got control of our government.

If politicians ignore voters they don’t get elected.

This is a transparent, well-worn DC play. Put Democrats in a political box by forcing them to choose between voting against an antisemitism resolution so Republicans can slam them as being antisemitic and anti-Israel — or voting for the resolution, so they can hit the Party for being divided and chaotic.

Seems like this article is trying to do the latter.

I wish these tactics didn’t work but this is how the GOP got control of our country.

The majority of voters chose Trump. Unfortunately that’s how a democracy works.

That’s not how it works. Leftists won’t be “allowed” to take over the DNC. Voters will need to create the political will to run leftists. There hasn’t been enough demand for leftists candidates. There are enough examples of leftists wining primaries and losing elections to prove that.

Election results have proven that leftists aren’t the majority. Politicians are beholden to the voters not leftists.

If leftists don’t vote for the candidate furthest to the left because they “aren’t left enough”. Then the party will replace those votes by appealing to those to the right.

Before Obama, Bill Clinton won two terms in a row.

Bill Clinton is not progressive. This would indicate the two term win wasn’t related to the progressive stance.

There are plenty examples of progressives winning primaries and losing elections. And progressives politicians are pretty rare to begin with. This shows how few American voters actually lean left.

Hillary stole the primary from Bernie because she had invested in the DNC for her own self gain, sure. But that doesn’t mean Bernie would’ve won the election.

It’s a popular opinion on lemmy that democrats should’ve known that Hillary couldn’t beat Trump. Yet she got the popular vote.

This is another example of lemmy not reflecting what actual voters choose.

I realize that is a popular opinion here on lemmy.

But, you don’t seem to realize that lemmy doesn’t reflect what American voters vote for.

The 2016 and 2024 elections have shown us that Americans would rather let Trump win than vote for a woman.

AOC isn’t popular enough outside of her fan base to win a national election.

Because Russian bots try to dispute the fact that Snowden is a Russian asset.

How do you audit them without revealing national security secrets?

I could understand why foreign actors would try to manufacture consent to force the pentagon to reveal what they’re using their budget on.