And people act like I'm some kind of crazy person when I say that when you resolve to vote blue no matter who, you only incentivize the blue candidates to appeal to republicans. I just didn't expect it to be this overt
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As an outside observer it seems like every blue is better than red, the best strategy is choosing which blue before the election.
For sure, but it's hard to overstate just how much influence the DNC has. Every blue is better than every red, but by resolving to vote blue no matter what their actual positions are, we are trading short term harm reduction for long-term harm multiplication.
Before long we're going to have the DNC force in a candidate who wants to jail trans people, and they will be slightly preferable to the republican who wants trans people executed. I want to avoid that eventuality, and that means demonstrating that being against human rights loses you the leftist vote.
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This is the same exact losing strategy the centrist democrats have been attempting to use for the last 20 years. They want "broad appeal" which basically means virtue signalling to bigoted republican voters who are going to mechanically vote for the person with the R next to their name no matter what any democrat says or does. And yet, they keep trying and turning their backs on the left as if to say, "we don't need you to win".
Until these awful people are ejected from the democratic party or the DSA gains more momentum, this bullshit is just going to keep happening.
They're not "attempting to use it". It's working well for them, their goals just aren't what you imagine they are.
ITT: A whole lot of piefed, .word, and .ca accounts just go and completely mask off. They hate trans people and they want you to know it.
Yeah, never going to vote for someone who rejects the existence of my friends. I'll vote for someone else and if there is no one to vote for I will draw a giant knob on the sheet in protest of the shit choices.
Ummm actually acknowledging reality is russian propaganda and youre only allowed to say anything mean about Democrats for about two weeks after the election. As we all know if you dont say anything negative then republicans aren't allowed to do it either. My strategy of voting for democrats and never making any demands of them is incredibly realistic, just look at how much we're winning and all the progressive genocide we're doing!
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*in America, your centrists are just wearing a mask.
The BEST way for Democrats to Gain Power is to ~~Cater to People who LOVE voting Democrat!~~ Cater to People who want to MURDER DEMOCRATS!
-Literally Democrats!
Literally true when half of their voters are committed to voting for them no matter what their policies are. The actual best strategy is to move to the right. "Vote blue no matter who" was always going to lead to this
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