• Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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    8 hours ago

    Why is it so common to blame the third party vote for democrats losing in 2016? It sounds like if the democrats would take an anti-war stance like the green party does, they would have won most of those votes too?

    Seems more appropriate to expect the party to reflect the population rather than the other way around.

    • Aqarius@lemmy.world
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      6 minutes ago

      It’s the Schrodinger’s Tankies. Simultaneously so insignificant as a voting block that it’s a waste of time to appeal to them, and so influential that it’s exclusively their fault when the dems lose.