157
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2025
157 points (98.2% liked)
Progressive Politics
2979 readers
646 users here now
Welcome to Progressive Politics! A place for news updates and political discussion from a left perspective. Conservatives and centrists are welcome just try and keep it civil :)
(Sidebar still a work in progress post recommendations if you have them such as reading lists)
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
And thus Republicans win again.
Thank you leftist purity culture, you truly are the best tool the fascists have.
In what way? He's better than any republican, but he's already playing into DNC's bullshit game by pivoting right.
Is he doing that? Or is he just playing politics and trying to maximize his chances of winning the general election? Who are you to say he won't pivot back to the left the instant he gets into office?
The standard Democratic playbook when they do get elected. They practically never actually stay left, and he just enlisted Lerner, Cuomo's guy, who's big into corporate and gig-economy shit.
And? He's not a standard Democrat. This fickle purity testing is why the right keeps winning.
What the fuck is "purity testing"?
I'm complaining about him hiring Lerner. He's playing by standard DNC rules, at best now.
It's what centrists say when people to their left have standards.
He's run a phenomenally lowercase-d democratic and candid campaign. Hiring one experienced DNC Communications chair does not compromise his platform. It might lead to that, but it might not. To judge based purely on that appointment, before anything has actually happened, is 100% purity testing.
So losing faith that a candidate is going to stick by his word is now something called "purity testing"?
Your faith is your business. Barking the failings of the lesser evil, in the wave of greater evil, with no good strong enough to replace them. Yeah, that's purity testing.
The lesser evil keeps getting more evil.
Because "is already over" means he's not good enough for the left. So they'll stay home and stomp their feet like they did in November. And he'll lose.
You're saying that moving to the right will lose elections.
THATS NOT WHT THE FUCK IT MEANS
That's what I understood it to mean. So then tell me, what does it mean?
It means that he's going to make himself beholden to donors like every establishment Dem does so even if all the leftists vote for him they're not going to get what they voted for thanks to The Machine. He absolutely positively should NOT do ANYTHING that is geared towards trying to woo the Establishment. AOC didnt do it, along with several others. He is WINNING; there is NO reason to change tactics. Besides, he's running for Mayor. There is no reason to involve any "advisors" from old national races that are irrelevant now.
That's my point, and also the mistake. I'm a first past the post system, you don't vote FOR anything. You vote AGAINST the worst candidate. Not voting is the same as voting for the worst because it moves the goal posts closer.
So until people understand that, there's no help in highlighting flaws in Democrat candidates. It only scares off the people who don't understand FPTP.
This message brought to you by the second worst party. By as thin a margin as they think they can get away with.
I guess if that's what you want to read into what I said. There's just no reason to think he's gonna be any better than a bog standard Democrat anymore, is all.