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In reply to the discussion: Watching AOC right now. Is she a contender for 2024? [View all]Celerity
(54,010 posts)I should know, having been born in the US, growing up in London, living a few years back in the US, and now living in Sweden.
The people who want to run out AOC and most likely all left progressives from our Party if possible would, if they were somehow magically successful, end up destroying our Party, as if the left were completely or near completely frozen out, the Party would have to lurch to the right in order to make up for the left voters who would leave at that point, stop coting D, and quite possibly form a third party. That lurch to the centre right would only exacerbate the haemorrhaging from the left base. The Rethugs would sit back, laugh, and dominate electorally. Thus are the flaws of the American non-proportional representation FPTP single member district, majoritarian form of electoral system.
