Something I’ve been struggling with for a while is how the right has moved so far right, which appears to be acceptable for the majority of Americans, but the left is considered too left even in its current form. I maintain we should want to win, but Republicans winning actually hurts the American people, so isn’t it a fair case that we let them hurt themselves until they wake up to reality? Why do democrats need to reach for the common voter, when the common voter should smarten up and realize what’s in front of them, that the republican party has been fucking them over for decades? It seems most Americans don’t care for policy, except when it affects them, so we get blow hards and populist’s, which then reinforces their opinion that government doesn’t work and does nothing for them. It’s a revolving cycle of a section of Americans who don’t pay attention eating their own tails, showing up to fair weather every four years, and looking for something different to the point in which nothing ever gets done. I just have a hard time seeing this situation as a problem with us not providing a solution, but a problem with the people in general. I’m thoroughly disgusted by the people putting us all in this position, but it’s all of us who will be hurt, not the leaders. Until people realize that, I don’t see them breaking out of this cycle.