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In reply to the discussion: Ralph "Thanks for 2000" Nader:Hillary Clinton needs challenger from the left [View all]Hekate
(100,133 posts)For Gods' sake, a primary election is a free-for-all.
What you DON'T want to do is (a) bloody everybody so much that people will stay home in disgust in the general election, and (b) start a 3rd party offshoot from the Dems.
That, as anybody with any brains knows, is how you guarantee another GOP presidency. The GOP cheats. They lie, cheat, and steal elections by every means possible.
The Democrats simply do not have enough margin of error by the time the GOP finishes gerrymandering districts and suppressing as many votes as possible.
In my 44 years of voting, almost none of my preferred candidates has made it out of the primary and into the general. I have never had to "hold my nose" for the finalist; all I have to do is read the Democratic Party Platform and compare it to the Republican Party Platform.
I don't have patience for idiots or Fifth Columnists any more, and Nader has sunk so low in my estimation that I now think he is both.