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You misunderstand the suggestion. The time to drive Democratic Party policy is in the primary. Vote for the Lefties. Vote for the socialists. Vote for the anarcho-communists. Vote for the leftiest Lefty that ever leftied. Drive the party Left there, but in that General, you need to vote Blue. The alternative may well ensure you never vote again because they have a plan that involves the voting public being turned into serfs and slaves for their policies. The righties have known this for a goddamn fucking long time. They express it as "Vote for the Conservative in the Primary, and vote for the Republican in the General." We need to steal that thinking and modify it to 'vote for the Liberal in the primary and the Democrat in the General.' There's fucking more of us than there are of those shitheads, just like there were in Iran in the 1970s and in Germany in the 1930s. When you get on your fucking high horse and say 'they aren't liberal enough', that's how you get people like Hitler and the Ayatollah.
Good plan in theory, but the party itself is in charge of the primaries and the leadership plays favorites.
I agree. I'm not saying to not vote blue, I'm saying to make the blue ones earn your vote and raise hell when they don't.
No thanks. Neoliberalism is a center right to right wing ideology.
Holding your elected officials accountable for their actions is so far from a high horse that it's a fucking pony.
No. The rise of the ayatollah was backlash to a US-sponsored coup and Hitler (and Mussolini, for that matter) was the liberals and conservatives in charge not doing enough to stop the rise of fascism, just like the neoliberal Dem leadership now.