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In reply to the discussion: One thing REALLY bothers me about Lamb's campaign: [View all]Tom Rinaldo
(22,912 posts)"Independents and Our Binary Political System"
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210344678
It was intended as thoughtful commentary on trends I've been thinking about for a long time, and written to avoid pot stirring inflammatory remarks
Here is the last paragraph from it (the "we" referred to in the last sentence refers to Democrats):
"Many of us are upset that an Independent, Bernie Sanders, ran for President as a Democrat challenging a Democrat in the Democratic primaries, before bowing out of the race and reverting to an Independent status once he failed to win the Democratic Party nomination. Many of us were also upset that Ralph Nader and later Jill Stein ran for President in General Elections as a Green thereby splitting progressive votes when it really counted. We don't want Democrats challenged by third party candidates in November. We don't want Democrats challenged by Independents in Democratic Primaries. We want Independents to all vote Democratic in general elections, for the candidates that Democrats alone get to choose . Yes, we are free to want that and even to argue for that, but we still remain in the minority, one that becomes smaller every day."
No doubt it was a coincidence and not directed against me personally but a few hours later an OP appeared which said in full:
"Anyone you see making our TWO PARTY choice out as NEGATIVE, i.e. more or less stating that while one
party is better than the other they are BOTH a problem, that person is helping the GOP win elections."
On second thought, since that was not what I was saying in my OP, that other one could not have been directed at me.