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Tony, I really admire your bizarre, unfounded optimism that, if the Dems just rolled over and gave into the whims of a subset of the party that can't be arsed to come up with a winning strategy on a national level in a Dems-only contest, then surely the Dems would get stronger and would be able to overwhelm the immovable death cult that controls the other half of the country.

Like, I wish we lived in your fantasy world, where Bernie Sanders was president, and progressives controlled the congressional and senatorial agendas, and after four years of that the Democratic base DIDN'T either become disillusioned by the party not giving them what they signed up for, or just DIDN'T just stop caring because they don't view the GOP as an existential threat the way the GOP views ALL Democrats.

That would be so much less stressful than reality, where the Democratic Party, by virtue of the Democratic voter base being fucking SHIT across the board (centrists who don't want to go too far left because they're conservative and this country is conservative, progressives who think anything to the right of their world view isn't good enough), is constantly two years away from losing any semblance of power, and the GOP never needs to adapt or change their strategy when THEY lose, or even have any sort of platform, because all they need to do is keep their psychotic supporters whipped up into a frenzy of hatred for ALL DEMOCRATS, and they win.

It's absolutely the Dem voters' fucking fault that we can't sustain any sort of positive forward momentum before backsliding to GOP rule all over again, and you're insane if you think the same shit wouldn't be happening right now if a perfect progressive fantasy land were instituted.

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