• bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    I didn’t say the greens are as bad as the dems, I said they’re not the best available option any more than dems are.

    Im not gonna rake you over the coals too much for it, but maybe the language around ballot access and chances isn’t the best way to pull people to your particular electoral construction given it’s the same set of ideas that supporters of the democrats are using against both of us.

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      2 months ago

      They use that argument because it’s valid and holds weight. The only other option besides bringing in a third party with ballot access is violent revolution and that was a lot cooler of an idea before drones existed.

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        2 months ago

        If it’s so valid then why aren’t you voting democrat?

        My problem with the idea that we all ought to vote for some party whose policies and politics are far from our own in order to win isn’t that it denies the blossoming of everyone’s special flower ideas, but that it collapses all the effects of a third party into winning and losing.