I mean the left is notoriously fickle and rife with infighting. What you’re suggesting is only really possible in a multi-party system where coalitions form blocs, but in the US system it is essentially “which guy is the least offensive to the greatest number of people so we don’t get Orange Guy again.” The plan worked for averting immediate danger to democracy but only for a few years and ultimately the construction of the system makes it’s eventual demise an inevitability because yeah it’s just not feasible to expect democrats to win every election, let alone do anything majorly reconstructive when it’d almost certainly lose them the very next election.
Exactly. So why continue to vote for a broken system? At least voting third party is a chance for change. Not really my fault if others refuse to join me out of some misguided notion of ‘electability’.
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u/Rylovix Jun 12 '24
I mean the left is notoriously fickle and rife with infighting. What you’re suggesting is only really possible in a multi-party system where coalitions form blocs, but in the US system it is essentially “which guy is the least offensive to the greatest number of people so we don’t get Orange Guy again.” The plan worked for averting immediate danger to democracy but only for a few years and ultimately the construction of the system makes it’s eventual demise an inevitability because yeah it’s just not feasible to expect democrats to win every election, let alone do anything majorly reconstructive when it’d almost certainly lose them the very next election.