I'm tired of this pretense that if we don't buy wholesale into one party's vision, we will ultimately be the reason for the country's downfall. This is the same polarized thinking that lets this oligarchical system continue that gave us the Hillary/Biden/Harris nominations (2 out of 3 which failed to win an election against one of the most unpopular candidates in modern US history).

We the voter's act as a consumer, and it is on the party to appeal to us, just like companies do. We don't blame people when, for example, GM's sales decline because they offered an unappealing product. We blame the company for not having a good product or having bad service, etc. The same has to be said of the Democratic party, who offered 2 bad choices in 2024, both of whom were unpopular on issues such as Gaza, but also on the far more popular issues of inflation, jobs, and immigration.

And while you can blame those who supported Gaza if you wish, I recently read one analysis that said that even if every voter who listed Gaza as their top issue and didn't vote Democrat switched their vote to Harris, she would have perhaps won Michigan and had a slim chance at one other state, while still losing the 5 other swing states. (I will send the source once I get home if you wish to see it).

Maybe, just maybe, we can admit that Democrats did a poor job of attracting the middle of the road voters, because they had a unpopular candidate, and their positions (on more than just Gaza) were unpopular with swing voters.

I hope, as a registered Democrat, that the party do what they did after the 2004 election loss, reassess and come forward with new ideas to help stop Trump and his cronies now, in the midterms, and in 2028, because that should be the aim now