• HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    16 hours ago

    But conversely, the “spoiler” factor of even a fuly realized Green campaign is nil if the Democrats tack left. Pull the plug on Bibi and Jill Stein has very little to talk about.

    It’s like they know the party will never bother to win those voters, and assumes they’ll capture them as good-enough/lesser-evil.

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      11 hours ago

      If she did this and raised taxes on corporate and individual wealthy, it would be a win of historical proportions.

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      16 hours ago

      Yep, if the easiest votes to get were between the two parties, Republicans wouldnt pull the shit they do with far left parties while embracing the far right.

      They’d move to the center to fight for those mythical “moderates” or at least have the Green party positioned slightly to the right of the Dem party.

      But they’re not. Because Dems just use those mythical moderates as an excuse to do what big money donors want. Moving to the right is effective at raising money from billionaires, but completely ineffective at increasing Dem votes.

      The party and the voters don’t have the same goals.