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W_HAMILTON

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13. I'm a progressive and I don't like this very much, but at the same time, what is the alternative?

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Wed Sep 17, 2025, 03:34 PM

Sep 2025

The Biden administration was the most progressive in decades, but what did that get us? A lot of progressives saying it wasn't good enough and then blame for a war waged by another sovereign nation that we ultimately have no control over.

If enough progressives are fickle enough to let Trump, OF ALL PEOPLE, and his Republicans win rather than support all the good that the Biden administration was able to do and a Harris administration would have continued to build upon, how are you ever going to win over these people and count on them as reliable Democratic voters? And if you can't count on that segment of the left, where else do you turn, other than the opposite direction?

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