Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: "Bernie Backers Blame DNC For 2020 Media Sabotage" [View all]sop
(10,227 posts)It happened in 2000, when Nader's people told us "Gore will be the same as Bush," cast tens of thousands of votes for Ralph in Florida, then Gore lost the state by a few hundred votes. That bit of misguided nonsense set us on the path to endless wars, cost the lives of thousands of Americans, crashed the economy, kept us from addressing climate change and allowed Bush to confirm more conservative Supreme Court justices. And those are just the lowlights.
It happened in 2016, when too many of Bernie's followers proclaimed "Killary is just the lesser of two evils, I just can't vote for her," then stayed home, threw their votes away on Jill Stein or voted for Trump. Hillary lost the Electoral College vote in four important swing states by a few thousand votes, states that Obama won in '08 and '12, even though she got three million more votes than Trump. The rest, as they say, is history; there's no need to list all the damage done.
Politics isn't some parlour game. Not everything always goes our way. Much as we would like it to be, America is not Sweden; this is not a socialist country, we have a lot of very conservative and regressive voters who will never see it our way. Bernie's policies (as well as Warren's) are probably too progressive for the U.S. electorate, but I still support them. That doesn't mean if our candidates don't win we should "let it all burn down." But, then, I'm not really sure what you're suggesting.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden