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    I am, actually, a beautiful and unique snowflake seeking a candidate to vote for who reflects my own hopes, dreams, and values and is worthy of my blessing. Whether you think I’m being reasonable or not is irrelevant, this is what I believe, and if the democrats want the votes of me and people like me, then they better start acting in a way that convinces me they deserve my blessing.

    If everyone voted for them they would have a mandate to move further left.

    They have precisely zero interest in moving left regardless of how much power they’re given.

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      You can believe cows milk comes from cartons if you like but that doesn’t make it so.

      Imagine electing a dictator because you believe you should be given a better alternative.

      The dems have to lean so far to the right just to gather enough votes to have any chance of winning. You could fix that.

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        Imagine electing a dictator because you believe you should be given a better alternative.

        Huh, yeah that is a weird thing to imagine. Has nothing to do with me though.

        The dems have to lean so far to the right just to gather enough votes to have any chance of winning. You could fix that.

        Lol. The dems lean as far right as they can get away with because that’s how they actually want to govern. And they’re able to get away with it because so many people who fancy themselves “progressive” refuse to hold them accountable or demand anything from them at all. You could fix that.

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          The dems lean as far right as they can get away with because that’s how they actually want to govern.

          That’s not how politics works though? I’m weary of saying the same thing ad-nauseum but basically, if everyone votes on the left then the gop will need to move their policies to the left to have any hope of winning an election, and democrats always need to position themselves to the left of the gop to differentiate themselves. Not surprisingly, if everyone votes on the left then politics will have to move to the left.

          It doesn’t matter how you perceive the dems “want to govern”. The gop will push them to the left if everyone votes on the left.

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            Yes, I suppose that if everyone on the right spontaneously woke up tomorrow as leftists, then that’s what would happen. I don’t really see how a wild scenario like that is relevant to reality.

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                In the current political environment, the GOP does not push the Dems left and it would take a major change for that to start happening. It’s not realistic to suggest.