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In reply to the discussion: I'd like to give a round of applause to all the Jill Stein voters and JPR-atf*ckers out there [View all]vi5
(13,305 posts)...essentially repeating "Nu-uh!!!!!!" over and over and over again almost 2 years after the fact.
Which is what these incessant and ridiculous Stein/Bernie/JPR/whatever posts are essentially doing.
I just find it ridiculous and short-sighted that we can navel gaze about what we did or didn't do to reach out to every other fucking group under the sun, but we're not at all supposed to even give a modicum of thought to what we might have done more to reach out to "lefties" (or I should say what are called "lefties" now but are essentially what were mainstream Democrats 25+ years ago)
I voted for her. I voted for her in the primary. I voted for her in the primary against Obama. I voted for her in the GE against Trump.
But the refusal by many to even give one modicum of thought as to how we maybe can get those people on board, or more importantly the 10s of millions who didn't vote at all and who support liberal policies is not going to get us anywhere. And these ridiculous posts get us not just nowhere forward, but they actively move us backward.
There's a meme going around liberal social media that is something to effect of how it's easier for Republicans to believe that Republicans Mueller, Comey, Rosenstein, the FBI and the CIA have been conspiring for years to bring down President Trump than it is to believe that Trump is a liar.
The liberal version of that is that it's much easier to believe a mostly washed up, super-liberal middle aged actress convinced people in the rust belt to swing an election for Trump than it is to believe that Hillary's campaign/The Democratic party did anything less than perfectly.