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In reply to the discussion: Democratic Socialists or main stream Dems. We've been electing "main streamers" for over 50 years and for [View all]lostincalifornia
(5,665 posts)David Sirota, Nina Turner, Brianna Joy Gray, Cornell West, Jill Stein etc. who went out of there way encouraging others not to vote for Hillary by either voting third party, or not voting, with the Bullshit that there was no difference between Democrats and republicans. It didnt take much either in 2016. In every critical swing state Hillary lost by less than 1%, while in those critical swing states Jill Stein received 1% of the vote. It didnt take much, and in spite of what happened in 2016, and the danger of what a second term trump presidency would mean, many of the same folks refused to vote for Harris in 2024.
The OP may be somewhat disingenuous when the OP conveniently ignores what happened in 2000, 2016, and 2024 blaming all the woes on the so-called establishment Democrats, since enough of those from the DSA in 2000, 2016, and 2024 refused to vote for the Democratic nominee in the general election in those critical years, and that action contributed to the Supreme Court we have today, the dismantling of the Civil rights and voting rights act, a womans right to choose, and an attack on our Democracy, and a whole host of other issues that brought us to where we are today.