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.

This is why I say vote no matter what. You can write in a name but if people don’t show up the only message they get is from the 2 major parties which are always pretty close together. And they just keep churning out the same.