This is not the right framing. The left vs right battle was invented so people wouldn't think about the up vs down battle. It's wealthy people vs everyone else but the wealthy people convinced everyone else that it's red vs blue.

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deadbabe 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

This is also overly simplified. It suggests the battlefield is on a two axis graph but really there’s 3 dimensions.

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an0malous 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This is absolutely correct, just observe how both parties attack Zohran Mamdani in spite of his wild popularity

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huhkerrf 4 days ago | parent [-]

The wild popularity of... checks... getting 56% of ranked-choice votes (44% of first place votes) in a Democratic Party primary in one of the most reliably Democratic cities in the US.

	▲	an0malous 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes exactly. It doesn’t matter that it’s a democratic city because, as you said, it was the democratic primary so every candidate was a democrat.