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sc94597 said:
vivster said:

It doesn't make sense at all. The number one priority for a left leaning party is to not have the most right wing party voted into the government. The only way to achieve that in the current system is to vote democrat. After you've established them, you can apply pressure. We had the perfect example of how not to do it last election. Left leaning people wanting to vote for Bernie boycotted Hillary and took votes away from the Democrats, the result was the exact opposite of what any left leaning person wants. So yeah, let's not do that bullshit again.

In the end it doesn't matter how right leaning the democrats are. Biden could walk up to the podium wrapped in a Nazi flag and greet the viewers with "Heil Hitler, my Niggers!" and he would still be the easy choice over Trump, because the chance is still more than zero to have reforms with Biden rather than the 0% with Trump, or any Republican for the matter.

"Vote lesser of two evils" has been the major strategy for the last fifty years. The result has been that politics in the United States has been shifting rightward due to the ratchet effect. The DNC's convention literally was just Bush Republicans (circa 2005) returning into politics as Democrats. 

Is it accurate to say that the United States has been shifting rightward? Just curious, but do you have evidence of that? (Something more academic than anecdotal preferably)

Last edited by sundin13 - on 22 August 2020