So your argument is that Trump could have sabotaged the GOP and decreased the power of The Right, therefore someone like Bernie should sabotage the DNC and decrease the power of The Left?
Are you stupid? My argument is not "Trump could have sabotaged the GOP therefore we should sabotage the DNC." It's that the right used a credible threat of defection to advance their policy goals, and that the same tactic can and will work for the left. Making that threat did not decrease the power of the Republican party, because the party flinched. Rather, it increased the power of that faction within the party, because the party flinched. And the party flinched because it considered the threat to be credible.
Why do we punish murderers? It costs us money to do it, and it doesn't bring their victims back to life. But, the punishment establishes a credible threat to other would-be murderers. Likewise, if a political party engages in mass murder, if it ignores and spits on our demands then, even if it comes at a cost, the party must be punished. For the exact same reason. In order to establish that when they fuck with us (and also slaughter hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians), they lose. The same way society establishes that if you murder people, you go to prison.
Threatening the Democratic party by saying that you won't vote or will vote third party, if they engage in mass murder, only weakens the party if the party chooses to ignore that threat and engage in mass murder anyway. And if they do so, and you follow through, then you have made progress towards making your threat more credible for next time. Even if it leads to a worse result in the short term, it's completely necessary, because we will be completely and absolutely fucked if we aren't able to establish any credible threat, even in the most extreme cases of mass murder.
I see you: you’re an accelerationist.
I swear to God. I explain my position very clearly, and you completely ignore every single thing I say and invent motives to assign to me out of thin air, completely unrelated to anything I say. Just pulling shit straight out of your ass and trying to put it in my mouth.
You want the pain of revolution because you are too comfortable and entitled, and don’t understand what real upheaval feels like. Every accelerationist thinks they will be on the winning side.
Completely wrong. If I thought that way, why would I even care? Both parties will ensure that the US is headed towards collapse. I don't really know which one would get us there faster tbh. And it's obvious that the right is much better positioned to take advantage of that collapse. Even if the left emerged on top, by some miracle, it would cause enormous amounts of destruction and would carry a serious risk of nuclear armeggedon. I am certainly not in any hurry to "accelerate" towards that future.
"Accelerationism" is a right wing ideology that virtually no one believes. It's just a meme liberals use to dismiss anyone to their left.
because it isn’t working as fast as you want it to
This is the part that you don't understand. It is not that it's "progressing to slowly," it's that it's not progressing at all. Both parties are regressive, both actively contribute to the decline whenever they're in power.
Joe Biden did not "decrease military spending less than I would want him to." He increased it to an all time high. Obama did not "withdraw from Afghanistan more slowly than I would've preferred," he doubled down and increased the commitment!
You are the accelerationist, because shit like Afghanistan (which you support), we cannot afford. These commitments, even if they weren't bloody, imperialist acts of aggression that accomplish nothing, are causing overextension and a debt crisis, which is leading us towards collapse. I am the one demanding the policies that are necessary to actually pull ourselves out of these crises and fix things, to avoid that collapse! The situation we're in is not sustainable, and you're taking a strategy that depends on being able to sustain it forever!
Why do I even bother trying to get you people to see reason? All you ever do is make up bullshit accusations based on nothing, whenever your ideas are challenged or scrutinized.