How has the Democratic strategy of "at least we're not the other guy" been working?

Why do you need to be “more motivated” if you care about climate change so much, when the options couldn’t be more clear?

I don't know how I can possibly make this more simple. These people haven't been motivated enough to vote for your party before. You want them to be motivated to vote for your party in the future. Therefore, you need to find a way to make them more motivated to vote for you. That's why. This is not complicated.

You are just making excuses for apathy.

No, I'm simply shifting the focus to where it belongs.

There's a mismatch between what the party does and what the people want, and your solution involves trying to change what the millions of people want instead of changing the handful of people who determine party policy. Not only is that completely undemocratic, it's also completely impractical. Unless you have a magic wand you can wave that will turn millions of people into Lesser Evilists before you'll need their votes, you're gonna have to meet them where they're at and give them things they want. Which is exactly how any democratic system is supposed to work.

It's kind of amazing how entitled y'all are with your party. They're supposed to be "public servants." If a servant's employer tells them to clean something, does the servant say, "It's already clean enough, you need to learn to live with a little dust," or do they do the thing they're being fucking paid to do and clean it again, even if they think the request is stupid? The level of backtalk y'all give to the public is frankly unbelievable. You don't act like public servants, you act like public masters, like you're feudal lords who get to tell us what's going to happen and we're uppity rabble who needs to fall in line. You've got things completely upside down.