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[โ€“] 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And people act like I'm some kind of crazy person when I say that when you resolve to vote blue no matter who, you only incentivize the blue candidates to appeal to republicans. I just didn't expect it to be this overt

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    As an outside observer it seems like every blue is better than red, the best strategy is choosing which blue before the election.

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  • For sure, but it's hard to overstate just how much influence the DNC has. Every blue is better than every red, but by resolving to vote blue no matter what their actual positions are, we are trading short term harm reduction for long-term harm multiplication.

    Before long we're going to have the DNC force in a candidate who wants to jail trans people, and they will be slightly preferable to the republican who wants trans people executed. I want to avoid that eventuality, and that means demonstrating that being against human rights loses you the leftist vote.

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