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As Trump Attacks the Republic, the Cowardly Democratic Party Still Won't Fight to Win | Common Dreams
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Nuh uh. If you don't want to vote for the big two, vote third party instead. Those guys are legitimately appreciative of every vote they get.
Then all the democrats lose their votes, the republicans win big, and the third party candidates are "legitimately appreciative". Now what? This is the kind of stupid suggestion that helped Trump win.
Then either the democrats change to appease the third party voters, or the third party keeps growing until it no longer matters what the democrats do.
If those scenarios seem unrealistic, they are much more realistic than democrats spontaneously deciding to do a 180 and actually fix things.
I've been yelling this for years. The scary thing for me is that increasingly "dems + lean dem" are no longer the majority and repubs have better numbers. And strong dem registration numbers shrink every year. Dems refuse to acknowledge or act on this fact, and its harder every year to define what "Dem" even stands for anymore. What is the Dem party platform? I used to be sure. Do dems support progressive taxation? No one knows. Now I think the DNC champions whatever viable minimum it can to win an election while sucking off the donors to the maximum extent. If they can win with 51% by allowing the rich to fuck us all over, thats the strategy they will pick-- they arent on our side.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/fact-sheet/party-affiliation-fact-sheet-npors/