General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Looks like they're grooming Mittens to be the puke candidate in 2024 [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I often longingly think of where we would be if the far left had JUST DONE ONE of the following:
Vote for Humphrey in 68
Vote for Carter in 80
Vote for Gore in 2000
Vote for Kerry in 2004
Vote for Hillary in 2016
Instead, at each of those critical times, it chose instead to manufacture enemies out of people that share 95% of their values.
I am a Social Democrat by values and temperament. But I have often held my nose and voted for a democrat that wasn't where I am at politically. The simple reason for that vote is that democrat was not going to set the effort to get a social democratic society back one to two decades like the republican would. So my vote was a practical one, by voting for the democrat, I chose to not get set back in my efforts and have to start from scratch.