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[–] 23 points 5 days ago (14 children)

And if enough voters go for a leftist third party making the Democratic candidate lose then that kind of contradicts the claim that nobody votes for a leftist candidate.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 days ago (9 children)

    Sure, but they’re still not electable.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (8 children)

    The implication of the meme is that they wouldn't be unelectable as the Democratic nominee.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago (7 children)

    How do you figure? The implication is pretty clear, that the volume of third party voters affecting which major party wins means that the volume is sufficient to win the election. It's a ridiculous implication that suggests either severe ignorance or willful misinformation, but the implication is clear.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    If nobody votes for a leftist candidate then a leftist 3rd party candidate shouldn't tip an election. The meme is suggesting that if the leftist candidate ran in the Democratic primary and won the nomination then the regular Democratic voters and the leftist voters who would have voted third party will all vote together for the leftist Democratic candidate and win.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    Where do you see the meme suggesting that? It seems like you're projecting an entire narrative which is not actually reflected in the content. It's a convoluted interpretation. The "nobody" is a hyperbolic straw man, obviously Democrats know that some people will vote for leftists. It's just that that number, while large enough to tip a close race, is nowhere near large enough to win a race alone.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    Gotta love how hard people pretend to believe things. No, the only numbers that exist aren't 0 and infinity. And I don't believe you needed to be told that, but you did need to have your bullshit called out in a way that sufficiently indicates what you're expecting people to believe.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    If liberals would only Vote Blue No Matter Who, the way they hypocritically demand of leftists, then a leftist Democratic candidate would have as good a chance as a liberal Democratic candidate.

    Or even a better chance, if it turns out that the Democratic base is actually more leftist than liberal, which seems increasingly likely given how much more excited people are about candidates like Mamdani and Talerico than they have been about "status quo" libs...

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    That's exactly the point of the meme: leftist voters are both "making no difference" and "making all the difference" according to the mainstream Democrats.

    It's almost as if that oft repeated piece of political propaganda is to avoid discussion of how in Representative Democracy it's up to politicians to appeal to voters, not up to voters to vote for the least unappealing politician, since the former discussion invariably ends up assigning blame to mainstream Democrat politicians for not at all doing their job and then afterwards just blaming everybody else for their own failure.

    Also, it's a typical "having the cake and eating it" - they claim not to need to appeal to leftist voters "because they make no difference" and subsequently they claim that the fault for their loss lies with those very same leftist voters which "make no difference" for not voting for them.

    So, which is it: "are those voters unimportant hence their vote made no difference" in which case politicians not caring about them was the right choice but they can't blame their loss on those voters or "those voters are important and their vote did make a difference" in which case politicians not caring about them was at best profound incompetence.

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