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    4 days ago

    When it’s someone they don’t like the discussion turns around “electability”. But they always want us to get in line for a pro-establishment center-left corporate Democrat.

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      They keep trying to court voters who will never ever vote for them instead of the people who they claim to share values with.

      R stopped with that shit and surprise surprise they got Trump in. Tell me again how we could never have gotten Bernie in or how AOC is too radical…

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        It’s almost like if you create a platform that completely disenfranchises your voting base to try and appeal to your opponent, people won’t continue to support you when you show that you no longer protect their interests.

        It’s always, for decades now, attempt after attempt to appeal to the “moderates” and “reach across the aisle” to get R’s to flip but never are they allowed to move the needle to the left otherwise they get ousted as being “too radical”, in order to pull in the gigantic swatch of the population who do not participate because they see that no one actually gives a shit about them.

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          It’s always, for decades now, attempt after attempt to appeal to the “moderates” and “reach across the aisle” to get R’s to flip but never are they allowed to move the needle to the left otherwise they get ousted as being “too radical”

          100% entirely correct!

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      I’m sure one of these days conservatives will vote for the (D). We just have to keep trying to meet them in the middle for another thirty years! Let’s try putting one of the Cheneys on the ballot next time.

      Now whose rights are we gonna sacrifice first? I vote old people’s.

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        They’re center-left when compared to a literal fascist dictator.

        They’re a right-wing party when compared to the rest of the world.