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because she was more likely to succeed in the electoral process so that I could continue my fight
How? She lost every branch. Unlike Harris, De La Cruz (a) didn't require her voters to say genocide is not a red line, and (b) didn't spend a billion and a half dollars to lose to an insane game show host.
Who is your current pick for president in 2028?
Unless you're going to remove the current Democratic leadership (which you can ONLY do by willing to be withholding your vote) you're getting Harris or Grusome Gavin.
For me, Tlaib is the compromise. But it ain't gonna happen. So I doubt I'll be voting for a Democrat in 2028 either.
Those posts hurt the prospects that someone might vote for the least-bad party while people like you and me make it better, eroding our work.
I hope they do! That's the exact point.
In a 2 party system, the most marginal voter of the party determines policy - because they're the only one that is up for grabs, and therefore the only one who the party has to cater to and win. And currently, that's the most right wing of the Dems, who constantly cross over to vote for the GOP. Which is why the party is far to the right of its base.
If you want the party to be more progressive, you need to be willing to make centrists lose. Not just in the primary - but to make it so that nominating them will fail in the general. Too many Democrats have as their only policy "keep the GOP out". Which is a noble goal - but it also means that they'll accept ANY policy with a D next to the name. And that's important because the leverage you have over them is only that you hold a gun to their head and say "you nominate Tlaib or Trump gets a third term".
That's the same thing the center does to the left, after all. Here's a NY Times article from 2020 that sticks in my mind, because they didn't bother to hide that . . . Democratic Leaders Willing To Risk Party Damage To Stop Sanders. Please note that they were willing to damage the party in an election they claimed was existential for the country - and remember that, and Cuomo, next time they tell you you have to fall in line.