(Part 3a/9) Why Vote “Blue No Matter Who” If Centrist Dems Never Play to Win?

Jeffrey Goodman
9 min readAug 18, 2022

Why do we keep voting for Centrist Democrats when they consistently choose to lose on the issues that matter most to voters?

The Terrible Damage We Do . . . Voting Blue No Matter Who.
(1/9) Centrist Democrats Do Not Reflect the Will of their Voters
• (1a/9) “Top-Down” Makes More Sense Than “Left-Right” Today in the U.S.
(2/9) Voting Blue No Matter Who Just Gives Democracy a Great Big Screw
(3a/9) Why Vote “Blue No Matter Who” If Centrist Dems Never Play to Win?
(3b/9) Why Don’t Centrist Dems Show Up to Fight (Blue No Matter Who)
(3c/9) Blue No Matter Who — Even When Centrist Democrats Are Incompetent?

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It's stunning how little Centrist Democrats have actually delivered for voters over the past 20+ years.

Think about the important fights of our times:

  • Climate change
  • Pervasive corruption in U.S. politics and government
  • A broken healthcare system that ranks last among developed nation peers on key metrics like life expectancy while costing twice as much as the average per capita cost that peer nations pay for their healthcare

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Jeffrey Goodman
Jeffrey Goodman

Written by Jeffrey Goodman

Navigating facts and numbers to help people. Strong opinions on climate change and healthcare. Objective, not neutral. MIT engineer, Wharton MBA.