I admitted I was venting a while back. You've earned condescension. You're cheering the path to doom. @LemieuxLGM @bmaz @sbagen
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Replying to @fpgeek
By suggesting Dems should try to persuade voters. Yes. DOOM. Please.
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Replying to @emptywheel
If the success of democracy depends on persuasion, then it is vulnerable to the unprincipled con
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Replying to @fpgeek
No. It is vulnerable to candidates who (under your ethic) have no interest in persuading or (Hillary's) don't effectively.
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Obama was not so vulnerable. Elizabeth Warren is not. Other Dems are not. Would they have beaten Trump? Who knows?
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If democracy fails because Michelle persuades Barack not to run and Warren stays at Harvard, it is fragile.
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Replying to @fpgeek
It is fragile! But that's not dependent on Jill Stein not running. It depends on having a real democratic process to pick candidate.
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Replying to @emptywheel
Yes, not dependent on Jill Stein not being a vanity candidate. It depends on voters being thoughtful enough to not vote for her.
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Go ahead and keep calling Stein a vanity candidate. But the woman who wanted to be CINC couldn't out-persuade her, per you.
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Stein is a vanity candidate because she could have done lots of good but making a Green bloc in the MA legislature...
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Stein is someone you consider a vanity candidate bc she was too persuasive for your preferred candidate to defeat overwhelmingly.
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