• UsernameHere@lemy.lol
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    11 hours ago

    Leftists consistently lose elections.

    Voters have consistently shown they don’t want to elect leftists.

    Centrists have won the majority of elections since the 90s.

    AOC and Bernie would lose worse than Harris in a national election. Just like all leftists have.

    When voters have chosen the option furthest to the right it is stupid to think that running a candidate further left would do anything but lose.

    • Centrists lost to Trump, the objectively worst candidate for president.

      Sanders received a loud applause from a Fox News town hall. I’m not so sure he’d have lost.

      When voters have chosen the option furthest to the right it is stupid to think that running a candidate further left would do anything but lose.

      Trying to do right-wing policy “better” than the right-wing candidate has consistently lost elections to far-right candidates. All it does is validate the far-right candidate’s positions, and they’ll always be considered “stronger” on those positions

      People primarily vote for change, and that’s exactly what the centrists haven’t been able to offer. It’s why Biden lost, it’s why Harris lost, it’s why Clinton lost.

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      10 hours ago

      Democrats had to rig not one, but two primaries against Bernard Sanders, and not only did they not deny it, they argued in court that it was their right to do so.

      No one fails harder than centrists. They are objectively, evidently pathetic. If COVID hadn’t occurred we’d be in the third Trump presidency, and you’d still be sitting here like a good bootlicker telling me I didn’t vote hard enough for centrists and ignoring that AOC and Bernard Sanders are filling football stadiums in red states.

      I repeat: I wish you all fought as hard against fascism as you do for the billionaire class.

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        6 hours ago

        AOC and Bernie stopped in my red state. I went and saw more than half the license plates were from out of state. Those that were from my state were from the one blue county.

        We recently had an election between an establishment Republican and a progressive and the progressive lost by a landslide.

        Don’t lie to yourself. AOC and Bernie have fans that will travel to see them from other states.

        Democrats are trying to stop progressives from throwing the election like they have every time they win a primary.

        Progressives can’t even beat other candidates that get funded by AIPAC let alone beat republicans.