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They Do Not Represent Us - The Primaries Are Proof of This
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The complaint Hawk hears most often is that the Democrats in office do not represent the people who vote for them. His answer is that the primaries are already fixing that, in real time, and it is worth watching happen.
A wave of challengers is winning by running on one thing: affordability. Gas, groceries, rent, utilities, healthcare. Not the framing consultants prefer, just the cost of getting through a month. When candidates lead with that, they are beating incumbents, including some who have held their seats for a long time.
Hawk's read on how it got this bad is straightforward. For twenty years a lot of elected Democrats answered to donors, to the party committees, and to organizations like AIPAC before they answered to their own constituents. Voters noticed, and now they are doing something about it in the one place their vote settles the question outright.
The point is not despair about the party. It is the opposite. The mechanism for changing a party you feel unheard by is a primary, and people are using it.
Register, check your registration, and vote in the primaries.
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