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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • They absolutely do exist. The GOP built their base on cobbling those voters together into one force. As long as they make empty gestures to their variety of issues, their SIVs keep in line no matter what other horrid shit they do. It’s taken a much more sinister bent, lately, but the core is still there.

    Dems have the reverse issue - voters declaring they won’t support them if they don’t address one issue, with the biggest and latest being the invasion of Palestine. There are absolutely voters out there that will ignore the rest of the good things done by their candidate, or worse, ignore how things will just get worse without them, all because of one little grievance. Dems have always had a bit of a purity test problem, but it’s multiplied into a much bigger problem this cycle.

    And all this said, I’m not dismissing your point that division is a serious issue, but not working together because of these singular issues is a big part of the problem.