• GodlessCommie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Better yet, democrats could caucus with 3rd parties. That whole ‘push them left’ is bullshit that never happens. We heard that in 2020 and we ended up with another neolib that’s condoning and funding ethnic cleansing.

    We’ve done it the liberal way for decades and that doesn’t work.

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      1 year ago

      The party has moved demonstrably left in even the last decade.

      And it does caucus with non Democrats. You’ve got Bernie and Angus King. There’s a socialist in Virginia too. I think Sinema actually started out that way too, as a Green. Clearly, if a third party candidate can win in the primaries, Democrats are fine supporting them, or at least not running a spoiler.

      The key part is winning a primary. If they can’t get the majority of Democrat voters, they aren’t going to come close to winning a general.

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        1 year ago

        Being to the right of Reagan is not demonstrably to the left. Bernie is now every bit a neolib POS like the rest of them.