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In reply to the discussion: How the extreme left gave us Nixon, Bush and now Trump [View all]vi5
(13,305 posts)I like your "Union Yes" avatar and agree with it 100%.
How come you're letting them off the hook? If they had been united in their support of the candidate who was more likely to support unions versus the one who had a history of hostility to Unions, wouldn't that have had an impact as well? And given the states we lost, probably working class union members being united probably would have had a bigger impact on the results than this mythical treasure trove of leftist votes.
So by the standards of your argument "Leftists" (whatever the fuck that means) have to be united and vote lockstep for a candidate simply because they other guy sucks on their issue, but Unions get a pass?
Again, I'm not letting anyone off the hook. It just seems too easy to keep dismissing "leftists" than it is to look at the disjointed messaging, horrible campaigning, short sighted strategies , and cowardly actions of many in the Democratic party establishment.