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Everyone knows the democrats will do this every time. “Vote blue no matter who” is a crock of shit and every single person who gives you shit for not voting for Harris and her shitty campaign that pandered to the right and Israel can be directed to party leadership’s behavior here and in New York
If they can run the risk of handing over mayorships to republicans because the “blue” candidate isn’t correctly blue then logically I can say I’m not going to back any genocide enabling, insider trading, corporate slaves who will sell out any marginalized group to keep their entrenched power (see newsoms pandering anti trans bullshit to charlie kirk).
"Vote blue no matter who" is a direct result of FPTP voting. Until that's fixed, yeah keep voting blue...if there isn't a more progressive candidate.
We need a viable third party and the time to start one was November 6, 2024. We're past the point to make a dent in the midterms (assuming we have elections) but we have time to run progressive candidates.
Seriously, people... throwing out your best option because you want better one down the road...
It's a strategy... I used it to protest the DNC in 2016... BUT IT REQUIRES YOU STILL HAVE A DEMOCRACY AND NOT A FASCIST DICTATORSHIP RUN BY AN INSURRECTIONIST. YOU FUCKED IT.
We are all responsible, nobody is more responsible than somebody else. Compromising on politicians that don't even come close to representing the American people is not going to win 2026 or 2028 and get us anything different than MAGA.
Yes, just like me on 2016. Still waiting on my wonderful 3rd party progressive candidate to take back America. Maybe once they start rounding up and deporting non-Republican Party members we'll finally see someone come along?
Yes, let us take comfort in our delusions of the future while the world crumbles around us.
It'll get me a world where I'm not actively hunted down for my sexuality or skin color, so that would be nice.
Will they win though? Kamala cemented it in my head that Democrats appealing to centrists and old-school Republicans isn't effective strategy.
Yeah, so long as you win every election forever, while running increasingly unappealing candidates. Which is the strategy you tried, and it failed.
That's not the strategy I tried.
Then what is?
The right strategy is fighting fire with fire - bombarding the internet with propaganda. It doesn't take billions of dollars to do it.
You're contradicting yourself from earlier.
Care to elaborate?
What you said in the last comment is contradictory to what you said in earlier comments.
Lol, Calvinball