If we become Repub lite, the voter is gonna vote for the REAL Repub, run on who we are,progressive D

[still_one]

34. This is false equivalency myth that seems to pop up every so often, and its bullshit. In 2016 every

Democrat running for Senate in those critical swing states, INCLUDING WISCONSIN, lost to the establishment, incumbent, republican, and those Democrats were progressive by any standard. Russ Feingold was one of them that lost.

This is the crap that some self-identified progressives try to push.

The difference between the republicans and Democrats are very clear, and this distortion that tries to paint some Democrats as "republican lite" is the typical bullshit that was pulled in 2000 and 2016, where not only some self-identified progressives refused to vote for the Democratic nominee by either voting third party or not voting, but also went out of their way to undercut and encourage others to do the same.

They contributed to our losing two SC appointments, the rolling back of Civil Rights, women's rights, environmental rights, worker's rights, etc.

Noam Chomsky articulated quite well:

https://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/noam-chomsky-progressives-who-refused-to-vote-for-hillary-clinton-made-a-bad-mistake/

West Virgina is not California, and that is what Howard Dean's strategy was all about, and that some seem to have a difficult time understanding that is unbelievable

The example used is Wisconsin, except Wisconsin continued to re-elect these republicans multiple times, and NOT because the Democratic challenger was "republican lite"