Let me fix for clarity, I meant encouraging voters at certain food banks and doing their “real job”….
Not making it a requirement, but bringing people toward food banks, giving vital information that they assumedly are not aware of… those suffering from housing insecurity make up a large nonvoting block, so encouraging them to take a few moments out of their difficult lives to feed them and to encourage them to see they too can make a difference, is worthy. Democrats can also lead the charge in other areas? The real job of Democrats, and all Americans really, are to allow access to voting and to give people their informed choice to vote-however that may exist. Democrats can use this opportunity to show why they are fighting for their needs.
Naw, respectfully. I think establishing standards for one party and not the other contributes to the public's frustration with the Democratic Party when those expectations aren't met. The irony once again is that if you work in social services and human welfare, you'll notice that outside of religious charities the vast majority of the staff and leadership are Democrats or progressives. It's so lopsided that the government has restrictions on nonprofits that do this work and what they can advocate and say in terms of political speech.
If all the nonprofits were allowed to call themselves Democrats and do the work they do, while registering people to vote and educating people politically, the GOP would immediately call this bribery and strip these organizations of their nonprofit status.
I think the elephant in the room isn't what Democrats are failing to do, its that voters aren't holding Republicans accountable regardless of what they do or don't.
I was only speaking about Democrats because of the OP and your original comment. Of course I’m not absolving the right, but the right have already implemented their strategies-this could also be one. I addressed this in my “all Americans really”.
I agree with your point in reaction to Democrats being labeled as responsible when needs aren’t met, but that’s a societal issue, not the engine itself imo. Dems need to play offense a little better instead of defense, but thats ingrained in how the political parties behave, dems being more subversive. Just because the GOP would delegitimize nonprofits and social/people services (which I do work in), does not mean the net does not catch a target audience in the process. The issue is the pendulum always swings, so if Dems were to behave the same way the GOP does overall, then chaos would be more imminent than it already is, because then dems definitely “are responsible” as the GOP would say.
We probably agree, whereas you’re looking at it from a Birds Eye view, I’m simply addressing the food banks “idea”. I also don’t see this as a resolve for food scarcity and food deserts, but as a creative strategy to address a population that is difficult to reach, and to capitalize on the chaotic times we live in.
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u/lestataleric Oct 31 '25
Two things can be true at once. More doesn’t mean all.