• AbsoluteChicagoDog
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    2 months ago

    Maybe we should be asking Democrats why they aren’t trying harder to satisfy leftist voters instead?

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        2 months ago

        Then Jill Stein shouldn’t have any impact right? Since according to you leftists aren’t voting anyway.

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          2 months ago

          That’s BS. Extreme leftists are very unreliable voters: no party that actually has a chance at winning anything or running the country can live up to their wishlist agenda. They have a “98% agreement with me means you’re still my enemy” mentality, so the only candidates that appeal to them are the ones that know they won’t win: those are the only folks that can promise rainbows and unicorns all day long, and pass the unrealistic and fatally flawed morality tests that extreme Progressives demand.

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          Let me put it this way: the kind of idiot voting for Stein is not a big enough demographic that they’re worth pissing off everyone else

          If they would OTHERWISE vote dem maybe. But you clearly don’t give a shit and never considered that a possibility anyway. The dems will never find a candidate to satisfy everyone, never mind an otherwise irrelevant fringe of socialist college students

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              2 months ago

              You mean the guy who lost twice in the primaries?

              If you’re too weak to beat Hilldog you’ll never win against the GOP

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                  Not trying to come off like a prick, but it is true most leftists I speak to really don’t understand how unpopular they are with most of the voting public. We live in a largely conservative country, and that includes a lot of liberals. Most people have a viscerally negative reaction to 90% of what comes out of the far left, never mind when it comes to voting