• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    You have to choose your words more carefully. There’s a lot of astroshitting all over the place. Should expect no less, if the primary races and 2016 and 2020 were any indication.

    I agree “vote blue no matter who” is potentially dangerous. However at this current juncture, it really doesn’t matter. Republicans can’t be allowed to have control of another branch. They’ve shown their hand, and are pulling no punches. Straight up lies, exaggerations, and accusations fueling a culture war in a strategy to get to 270 with as little a popular vote as possible.

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      6 months ago

      If we could win by more than the slimmest margins, there’d be a hell of a lot more room for division within the party.

      Ideally the Dems would win so hard that the Republicans would be forced to change or go extinct. And ideally, the Republican party would lose so badly for so long that they cease to be relevant and the Dems split into two parties.

      Why 48% of the country votes against this is mind boggling.

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        6 months ago

        Paradoxically, people somehow think that voting for a third party will make the Dems change their platform n

        Not sure how that’s supposed to work. The more people that vote for a third party, the less people vote for the main party. That could make the result 48-47-5 with Trump still winning, and the Dems have no way to move the needle, because now they have no office. Or it could make it 28 third party, 30 Biden, and 42 Trump. Either way Trump wins.

        Third party votes take votes away from the most aligned primary party and ultimately makes the outcome less desirable. The only way they can be effective is when the aligned party already has a very comfortable lead, and even then its risky.

        I also think it’s incredibly arrogant to think that a third party could come completely out of left field and score the highest office in the land while holding few (if any) state and local offices.