Ralph Nader - "Stay Silent and Stay Powerless Against Trump's Tyranny"

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212. My "side" is the Democratic Party.

My desired domestic policies are largely in line with the far, far left. I just happen to also understand that 95 percent of what I'd like to see will never, ever happen, so I do the best I can and support the Democratic Party, the only non-fascist party in our country that can win.

This is a party that has had full control of government for only four out of the last 30 years. In those four short years they pulled us out of two depressions, saved multiple US industries, gave us our first national healthcare system (yeah yeah, it's far from perfect), recovered from the first global pandemic in over a century, brought 21st century infrastructure upgrades, made serious attempts to mitigate climate change; basically they've delivered bill after bill through razor thin majorities, only to turn around and get savagely punished in the midterms. It's bad enough our party has to face the mass ignorance of the average voter, but to be so accomplished in an extremely progress-limiting Federal system and still be screamed at from the far left as not being good enough, it makes my blood boil. Try to imagine what 6-8 years of full control might have brought us.

And the whole point of being salty with Nader is that no, progressives have NOT gotten in line. A large enough segment continues to actively cost the Democratic Party national elections. That's what Nader did in 2000 (and tried to in 2004, but wasn't needed).