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In reply to the discussion: How the extreme left gave us Nixon, Bush and now Trump [View all]Mellomugwump
(93 posts)Rather than a Jill Stein throwaway vote. My main point is that I think Hillary is probably more to the left than she campaigned to, in order to not lose the independents. I'm not saying move more to the left, I'm saying that while not perfect, Hillary is leagues above what we ended up with, so anybody who didn't vote for her because she isn't progressive enough, screwed us all.
I would love to see the whole country move WAY more to the left, which would result in more progressives winning elections. In the meantime, we shouldn't shoot ourselves in the foot if our candidate's ideology isn't where we want it to be.....yet. Unless you're in favor of the scorched earth policy where you want to see it all burned down, so we can start over, and that is tempting, but I'd worry that we'd still end up way behind where we want to be.