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minus-squarezarkanian@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·18 hours agoThe problem isn’t that people voted for Jill Stein. The problem is not enough people voted for Jill Stein. The left is so broken in this country that we can’t even get a candidate to 5%! And yet, we’re supposed to stop Trump?
minus-squarechiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down5·18 hours agoYou know what 5% of the electorate could do? Ensure the GOP loses every general election and participate in primaries to move the Dems to the left. That’s how you make change in our system. Not by throwing away votes.
minus-squarezarkanian@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·17 hours agoPeople have been trying to move the Dems to the left for decades, and look at what we have now.
minus-squarechiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down6·17 hours agoThey’ve been trying by removed about the party every couple years when the primaries they don’t participate in select the wrong candidates.
The problem isn’t that people voted for Jill Stein. The problem is not enough people voted for Jill Stein.
The left is so broken in this country that we can’t even get a candidate to 5%! And yet, we’re supposed to stop Trump?
You know what 5% of the electorate could do?
Ensure the GOP loses every general election and participate in primaries to move the Dems to the left.
That’s how you make change in our system. Not by throwing away votes.
People have been trying to move the Dems to the left for decades, and look at what we have now.
They’ve been trying by removed about the party every couple years when the primaries they don’t participate in select the wrong candidates.