• agamemnonymous
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    5 months ago

    There’s something pure about a Green candidate. The fact that they stand no chance of winning is kinda Zen, they’ll never stop being a candidate.

    It’s absolutely ghoulish to throw your vote away on Green when so many stand to suffer when the left splits their votes, but it is pretty Zen if you care more about abstract principles than human suffering.

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        You’re exactly 100% wrong. The reason we’re in this mess is because we let perfect be the enemy of better, and prioritized unactionable abstract principles over tangible policy.

        Every third party vote is an admission that the voter prefers pristine, incorruptible (because it will never suffer the test of implementation) fantasy over ugly but effective pragmatism.

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            Uhh… you know, usually if someone loses that hard in popular consensus, it’s a pretty widely accepted strategy to get their policies closer to the ones who won.

            Like how after three consecutive Republican terms, the left propped up Clinton.

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                No argument from me, I think leftists should caucus with neo-libs and stop virtue signaling through non voting or going third party. If we focused on practical actions, Democrats would get that 80-20 blowout and stop ignoring the left. It’s the idealistic non-voters preventing that blowout, doing look at me.

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                    That’s crackpipe logic. How exactly does that help anyone? That just pushes Dems further towards the Overton-blasted center to try to scoop moderates. This train of thought makes zero sense, and betrays a profound ignorance of the American political landscape.