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    6 months ago

    This is also a good point. I think we’d have a better shot at electing a third-party candidate than we would of pushing an establishment democrat left.

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      6 months ago

      Dems have made it abundantly clear they are willing to move further right than a centimeter to the left. Also my American compatriots see socially left and assume economically left when that’s just not the case. Socially left is great, until everyone is homeless, hungry and sick, equally.

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        6 months ago

        Not to mention that even the “socially left” is highly questionable. When I see a leader who’s willing to throw other marginalized groups such as Palestinians, refugees, and BIPOC under the bus, I have no doubt he’d have us LGBTQIA+ people lined up and executed if he thought it would help him win elections. Establishment Democrats are not allies, no matter how many rainbows they project on the White House.