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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No. It's because yall gave the democratic party near ties instead of complete blowouts that would force strategy change. Just one 80-20 election would have changed everything. Republican voters are voting for what they want while you sad pseudo intellectuals support what you don't.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This sort of thing happens in other countries. The Conservative party in Canada (federally) is not the same party as the previous Conservative party. After Brian Mulroney, the party got blown out so bad it lost official party status, theyd been around since 1850. The current conservative party is the renamed Reform party, founded 1988 or so. Went from a new party to governance in roughly 14 years. Ever now and then, the media still tries to call them "Tories" but they're not, that party died, federally. Still exists in some provinces on a "state" level, Doug Ford is one, premier of Ontario, but works fairly closely with Federal Liberals more than Federal Conservatives.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Of the Democrats. What I'm saying that if just once in the last thirty years, there had been one definitive blow out of that party, all these silly debates of "lesser evil" and "you have to vote" would be moot, as they'd not be running literal garbage anymore.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

No, it's the people voting for the lesser evil for 30 years preventing it. Yall shouldve just all voted republican en masse in 2000, or 2008. One decisive loss. Too late now. Trump is back with a narrow win come November. I don't think Americans understand what a protest vote really is,

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's not. These very close races is what did that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Homie I'm not gonna "Nuh-uh" "Yuh-huh" your unfounded hypotheticals. Your assertions need more substantial justification than your personal vibes, which you have not even begun to provide.

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

looks at what has happened over decades dude give your head a shake and think. Parties don't change strategy till it quits working. Democrats have never run hard left candidates because yall kept voting for center right candidates.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Homie I'm not gonna "Nuh-uh" "Yuh-huh" your unfounded hypotheticals. Your assertions need more substantial justification than your personal vibes, which you have not even begun to provide.

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Read a book, look at some other countries parties, expand your horizons, or just wallow in your own ignorance.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have, which is why I have based my perspectives on that evidence. You're proposing pure unsubstantiated conjecture. Take your own advice.

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Stfu, this is politics not physics, and you obviously haven't considering what you've been saying.