One thing I know for sure... if leftists or liberals stay home on election day, maga will run this country forever. Somehow, we liberals and leftists need to work together to defeat fascism while we still can vote.
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I would LOVE to work with them. Hell, I'm a progressive liberal that supports and wants most of the policies they claim to want. But they're insufferable, rigid, purist, arrogant, and willfully ignorant about how things work and unwilling to form majority coalitions or compromise. It SUCKS.
aug 24, 2025, 6:25 pm • 9 2 • view
That's only a minority of loud leftists imo. Many of them are just contrarians who won't support anyone who can win in any party. Democracy cannot survive without compromise. Rightists and radical leftists will bring us all down if they continue to be philosophically uncompromising ideologues.
aug 24, 2025, 6:32 pm • 1 0 • view
It's the entire DSA, The "Justice Dems", the entire Green Party, most of the Squad, most of the "Free Palestine" movement, and more. Yes, they're loud, but there are enough of them that they've thrown elections to Republicans at least three times in my lifetime (2000, 2016, 2024).
aug 24, 2025, 6:48 pm • 9 1 • view
Well, if we fight among ourselves we'll never win again. We need to compromise with them when we can. New voters often have strong views but never actually vote in numbers large enough to have much effect. Acrimony within the Party certainly won't encourage them to actually vote!
aug 24, 2025, 6:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, talk to them. They don't believe in compromise. Apparently.
aug 24, 2025, 6:57 pm • 6 1 • view
You're too late. Purity bros DID stay home and here we are. 🤷🏻♀️
aug 24, 2025, 6:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Sadly, young left wing voters always have stayed home in droves. Had they voted there would have been no W and no Trump.
aug 24, 2025, 6:51 pm • 1 0 • view