A lot of what needs to be done is making sure that the Harris win is large enough that you can’t easily claim that a handful of ballots should be tossed and change the outcome. That means:
- Check your voter registration — part of the Republican strategy has long been invalidating registrations so people can’t vote
- Volunteer — nothing in the world quite like talking to people.
- Donate — money is used for everything from ads to voter turnout operations
- Organize; be prepared to turn out with others in your community to actively object to any effort to ignore your votes
Once again, the average american is very low-information. A few times I had to explain that the primary vote had been the one to decide whether any of the policies that would help them would be on the ballet, and stuff like emptying the camps, defunding the police, and cutting military spending weren’t even on that.
Progressives are told that dems share their values, or infer that from republicans opposing those values.
Yeah that’s true, most people are not particularly engaged with politics. This is partly what lets Trump get away with switching his positions so often.
If we look at the House though, where each member represents a fairly small district, we see that the squad is progressive and has a handful of members out of hundreds. They side with the dems due to the two party system, but are just a small faction within it. Ultimately we just don’t have the numbers. Dems try to court us, but also try to court the never Trump repubs that fled their party.
I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a progressive that thought the dem party was all AOCs and Bernies and not a whole bunch of more status quo, “typical politician” types. Though that could just be a regional culture thing.