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In reply to the discussion: Democrats better embrace progressive millennials or get used to losing [View all]still_one
(92,204 posts)direction of the Democratic party, so input from all sides of the Democratic party's nominees would weigh in, and when the committee was finished, Cornell West enthusiastically, and very publicly and proudly, to show his willingness to be part of it all, promptly and enthusiastically went on to endorse Jill Stein
Gee, because some of these self-identified progressives didn't get their pancakes shaped like Mickey Mouse, they really showed the rest of us.
What a perfect analogy
Perhaps Noam Chomsky said it best: Progressives who refused to vote for Hillary Clinton made a bad mistake
I think they [made] a bad mistake, said Chomsky, who reiterated that its important to keep a greater evil from obtaining power, even if youre not thrilled with the alternative. I didnt like Clinton at all, but her positions are much better than Trumps on every issue I can think of.
Chomsky also attacked the arguments made by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, who argued that Trumps election would at least shake up the system and provide a real rallying point for the left.
[Zizek makes a] terrible point, Chomsky told Hasan. It was the same point that people like him said about Hitler in the early 30s
hell shake up the system in bad ways.
https://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/noam-chomsky-progressives-who-refused-to-vote-for-hillary-clinton-made-a-bad-mistake/