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"principled" should be protecting what you have to keep pushing for what you want rather than standing outside and critiquing while the world goes to hell because your not inspired by your choices. Most have a lot more to lose in those cases.

If you believe, for example, that the CBO estimate of almost 3000 Americans dying *every month* due to lack of health *insurance* is unacceptable, and we need universal healthcare, you know Republicans won’t give it to you, right? But here’s what you should also know: 1/2

Voting for Democrats just to avoid Republicans ends up being an endorsement of the Democratic Party, so they won’t give you “what you want”. The only way to change them is to not vote for them. 2/2

that is a dumb and self indulgent strategy, as it was last year and always will be. I'll proudly vote for the party and folks going in the right direction, and push them further and protect their achievements like ACA

Ok. Well, good for you. But you’re making things worse.

No, being self indulgent and making politics a personal purity test rather than seeing the big picture and the necessity for finding compromise in a big tent to keep moving forward and protecting achievements makes things worse

Compromise? So, to you, just to be clear, allowing 3000 Americans - a significant percentage of whom are children - to die every month due to lack of health insurance is a necessary compromise? I reject that. With heavy prejudice.

I reject that number increasing amidst many other horrible dismantlings of long fought progress with the fight to keep pushing when there are better options. You want to burn the house down rather than keep fighting. That's "principle" to you.