EDIT: I should clarify, by Jill Stein, I mean what her party’s official platform and policies are, as reflected by her statements in interviews

  • Skyrmir@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    It’s not a policy question it’s a media question. The right started taking over news media the day Nixon resigned. Repealing the Fairness doctrine, ending League of Women voters debates, propping up Fox news, and Sinclair media buying out all the local stations. That’s the decades long community goal they’ve been running. The left needs to understand it, and how to fight it, because MSNBC isn’t doing it.

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    7 days ago

    Why would that persuade someone living in a swing state that sometimes vote republican and sometimes democrat to vote D?

    I think you over estimate how many hard lefts don’t bother voting at all because both parties are too similar.

    Going more left will cost more votes than they would gain.

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      7 days ago

      How are centrists and “moderates” that pliable if the alternative is escalatingly radicalilizing (the right)?

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    8 days ago

    You may as well ask, what would happen if the Democratic party were a different party?

    The DNC pulled out all the stops to keep Sanders from the general election, twice. They can absolutely win elections, when they want to block any movement toward the left.

    I recommend listening to this: Why the Democratic Party CANNOT and WILL NOT be Reformed

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      8 days ago

      You people will eventually need to understand that you’re wrong and you’re the reason Trump is in office. Hope you figure it out before you’re on the wrong end of an open class war.

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    8 days ago

    Do not compare Bernie Sanders to Jill Stein. Jill Stein is an anti-vaxxer and a Russian spy.