2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Tens of thousands to leave Democratic party the day after their primaries in protest [View all]ancianita
(36,017 posts)I don't mean to insinuate anything personal during the most passionate voting time of the election cycle.
To my best recollection after fifty years of voting, there has been no historical evidence -- Lincoln's and FDR's wins being the two exceptions -- that progressives turn out majority votes.
At least not yet. If tens of thousands leaving the party is really a fact, and not just some media hearsay, and the American majority do vote third parties that don't win, then the loss for the country will take us all in a direction that we'll live in dread with even more.
But I rest my case on the sad fact that the majority of Americans don't vote at all, and that too many party voters conflate party unity with uniformity.
Leaving for non-viable third party voting, at this point, is leaving the FDR wing and tantamount to giving the election away to demagogues that will make this country a disrespected nation internationally.
Thanks for your explanation.