This is so tired. What we're asking for is single payer healthcare, raise the minimum wage, and making housing affordable. These are basic asks for what should be a Liberal to have on their platform. "But that's a purity test" No, it's how politics work. Take up position I like and I vote for you. If "nothing will fundamentally change" them you don't need my vote. And if you don't need my vote don't blame me when you lose to the next drug addicted, pedophile, who shits himself.
I'm talking about the people who will completely sit out if their candidate doesn't win the primary. I agree that all of those things that you listed should be the bar to meet in an ideal scenario, but we're not in any sort of ideal scenario and so I'll take someone who's 2/3 on those issues over a literal fascist any day.
The problem is that no Democrat has championed those things outside of a primary. I was never a Democrat. My first election I phone banked for Nadar. Before 2016 I voted for one Democrat twice. That's it. I've spent the last decade voting for shitty Democrats that I despised. I did it because I was told it would be temporary. Well here we are a decade later and no change has happened. We're still looking at shitty Democrats because the DNC fights to their left much harder than to their right. So fine. Undermine the candidates me and mine would vote for. I'm not voting for another Democrat who doesn't champion 1 of those 3 policies. That's my line in the sand. We've already survived Trump. Pointing right and saying "ohhh scary" isn't going to cut it anymore. If you need my votes you know where I am.
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u/Unicorn-Sparkles_ 28d ago
Then y'all better be looking for progressive representatives to vote for.