My Latest. How far too many progressives are hating good political leaders because they aren't perfect, or ideologically pure. It's a problem that must be addressed and is often rooted in white privilege.https://theintercept.com/2017/12/07/atlanta-mayor-bottoms-progressives/ …
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Namely, this clause is key. If you think the Democratic Party is posing major institutional barriers to prevent your do-it-in-the-primary strategy from working, withholding support in the general may be the only way to change that.pic.twitter.com/e4e98dLYa6
Again, if withholding your support plays a role in a close election in getting truly dangerous people elected, that cost is too high.
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I understand that view. I just think you've got to acknowledge that there's a cost on the other side - as long as the Democrats can scare you with the Republican, they don't need to do much to actually help people to earn your support.
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The upshot of that, in my view, is that Democrats almost always run on "look at how terrible the GOP candidate is" as the candidate gets worse & worse. Many of the folks making that argument did it with Bush, McCain, Romney, & Trump.
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It makes more sense to me when someone says, for example, that they could see voting Green in 2012 but not in 2016. I'd still personally disagree, but I think that's a decent argument.
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Nope. Choosing to work to invalidate the voice of half your party was the "dangerous" part. It bit the party in the ass. Now, ignoring that fact risks it happening again. The lesser of two evils argument is not going to work. Trump is an option if you put up a shill.
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But that can't happen in national elections, Shaun. If all Stein votes went to Clinton, the contest would have been decided by the House of Representatives. Gee, wonder who they would have voted for?
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