You can't win elections if you don't grow up and stop hating voters

[Warren DeMontague]

115. It seems to me the first thing to do would be try and appeal to the Gary Johnson voters.

You hear a lot of "fuck Trump voters" and "We don't need them". Okay, fine, but we still lost the EC, even if by a hair. We still don't control, what, 33 statehouses? The idea that we don't need to do ANYTHING differently or even appeal to the slightest bit of a broader swath of people- I'm sorry, I don't follow that logic.

So okay, where do we get more voters? If you write off the Trump voters, who is left? I suggested in a similar thread that we go after the 3.5% that voted for GJ. The next biggest slice of the voter pie.

I don't know, no one seemed terribly interested in the suggestion.

The GJ/Libertarian voters obviously have more in common with the GOP on the whole Ayn Rand economics thing, but something is keeping them from voting Republican.

To my mind, that something is a high degree of respect for individual liberty, personal freedom.

As progressives, we SHOULD be the party of ending the drug war, finally stopping the governmental conceit that it somehow has the right to tell consenting adults what they can do with their own bodies, etc. We should remind them that we oppose censorship, support choice in reproduction as well as all other aspects of how consenting adults choose to live their lives, marijuana legalization, respecting the bill of rights, issues like that.

But yes, insulting people is a piss-poor way to get them to vote for you. We should learn that lesson.