This was an awful lot of words to explain that you don’t understand how your government works. It’s not a “framework of “lesser-evilism.”” It’s just how the system works.

Thank you for proving my point.

You can put me under any government, and I can understand how it works backwards and forwards, and I still will not support the killing of hundreds of thousands of civilians, no matter how "pragmatic" it might appear. The idea that I should is a specific moral framework.

How can I get a fish to understand water?

You are trying to derive conclusions of what I ought to do purely by describing what is. That runs into the is-ought problem, and you cannot bridge that gap without making moral assumptions. If my position of putting principles before apparent pragmatism is a moral belief, then your position of putting apparent pragmatism before principles is also a moral belief. Isn't that just obvious?

Do you know why we all know this is how it works? The GOP did it 15 years ago. Right leaning voters showed up consistently, and so they dragged the GOP to the right.

The right is far more willing to say "my way or the highway" than anyone on the left, myself included. There's no shortage of people who will break with the party if they don't take a strong enough position on issues like abortion or gun control.

And, by the way, if you go into conservative circles and demand people give up their convictions and vote for moderate Republicans as the lesser-evil, you will generally get a negative response. The kind of rhetoric you use would be a good way to start a fight at the poker table, to disrespect people's moral, political, possibly even religious convictions, that shit doesn't fly in those circles, from what I've seen.

The difference is that the party has chosen to be responsive to their demands. The reason right-wingers don't break with the party is because the party gives them everything they want. If you actually wanted to learn from their success, you would be trying to get the party to respond to the left's demands rather than trying to get the left to abandon our demands.

Donald Trump himself threatened to run as a third party candidate in 2016 if he did not get the nomination. Did you forget that? Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders bent the knee and actively campaigned for Clinton. Which of those strategies worked? Which of those factions wields more strength today?

Every time one of you talks about "primaries" you've already lost. First, we didn't even have a real primary in the last election, second, the DNC has argued in court (successfully!) that primary elections do not have to be free and fair because they are a private organization, third, any criticism you might make of "one party states" contradicts that because those single parties have primaries. The CCP has primaries, I somehow doubt that you'd tell a dissatisfied Chinese person to sit down and shut up because if they don't like the party they can change it by trusting the process.

You are the reason the DNC you complain about sucks.

No, you are. Because you fail to hold them accountable in any way. Because you let them get away with mass murder knowing that people on the left will fall in line regardless.

...is what I'd say if you were anywhere remotely near the left. I don't understand what problem you even have with the Democrats. You agree with and justify their mass murder. Are you just taking a more critical position rhetorically to try to appeal to me?