Lefties who are tired of election “panic”:  what’s the alternative?  When was the panic not warranted? I’m serious in my asking.

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It’s not a question of warranted or not, it’s positioning. We can both agree X is bad, but if your entire messaging is X is bad then you aren’t really offering anything just stoking fears. If your messaging is “here’s why Y is better” that’s something positive that people can rally behind. Using panic and fear is lazy and exhausting, people are not supposed to be in a state of panic 24/7 but it gets headlines and donations so politicians fall back on it time and time again. It’s much harder to show what alternative you are offering, but that’s actually the good stuff. If your entire message is “the other guy sucks” then at some point people are going to realize you don’t actually have a message.

I dig this answer.  I see the situations as largely unchanged in the 2016, 2020 & now 2024 elections.  I’m not bothered by similar messaging but I see others are.  I think you hit on key points that matter though particularly in offering solutions instead of complaints.