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kandoh
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I would say not voting for the "conservative" in 2024 more directly handed power to the Republicans, no?
You're misremembering.
The Tea Party pushed more conservative candidates in primaries, but in general elections Tea Party voters never sat out in protest - instead, they either supported the GOP candidate or, in a few cases, backed third-party or independent runs, but there were never large-scale abstention.
Isn't Malta like the last Crusader state? Pretty sure the knights of malta have some sort of UN special observer status.
Trump winning in 2020 being better is a BIG assumption that fails to consider just how bad things could have gone.
Off the top of my head, would things be better right now if we'd had Turkey's levels of inflation? How bad would poverty have gotten? How many people would've died from suicides and extra Covid deaths? Would he immediately have gone into revenge for BLM mode?
There is a level of death and destruction that you are failing to consider.
Also, really consider how this conspiracy to stop Bernie in 2020 is just the centrists making a strategic decision not to split the vote. In the French parliamentary elections, like 200 left-wing and centrist candidates withdrew from the second-round run-off races to avoid splitting the anti-far-right vote —Do you consider what they did to be unethical and a subversion of democracy?
Let's compare leftist strategies of never turning out with the evangelical strategy of driving massive turnouts.
Who has had better success shifting their party?
Vote for the furthest left-wing candidate in the primary.
Vote the for furthest left-wong candidate in the general.
It's not difficult.
Not voting means the party has to start offering policies to entice you back.
That's an assumption. Another assumption is that they try to win over the voters who reliable show up and ignore the ones who don't as unreachable.
How do you ensure the outcome you're looking for happens? Hope is not a strategy.
Feels like we're all old men whose country was conquered