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SecretBase posted...

We don't subscribe to that theory since progressive Bernie Sanders did just fine in general election polling. If he or a candidate like him made it to the general they would clinch a healthy amount of independent votes.

The obstacle is totally registered Democrats, in the primary, since they're the ones who vehemently shut down our candidates.

Your analysis would be accurate if we were deadset on getting someone like AOC, who may prove unpopular in swing states for various reasons, elected. But I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm fine with just running the most electable anti-plutocracy candidate possible.

Polling numbers don't prove how an election would have played out, but it's almost certain that Republicans would have tried to double down on the socialism label the same way they tried to paint Democrats as "the radical left" when Biden was the nominee.

If I remember right, most the primaries on the Democrat side were open, but progressive voters (mainly people from my age demographic) have worse tendency to throw tantrums and not end up voting anyways than moderate Democrat voters, who are more likely to vote just out of principle.

To me, the real problem on the left back was all the inner-bitching once the primary was already decided. And this year there is no real point of a primary without other viable candidates that show better chance of winning (let alone not running an incumbent being generally pretty damn dumb), which makes all the inner-bitching even more obnoxious and furthermore highly suspicious when it comes to intention.