Why Are 'Progressive' Websites Discouraging Voting?

[rhett o rick]

148. There seems to be a rash of these "trash the Left posts". To what purpose? Are they intended

to encourage the Left into voting? Or are they driving a wedge between the Left and the rest of the Party? The meme that the Left is encouraging people to stay home is total bullcrap and is damaging to the party unity. There may be a handful of people stating as you contend, but you don't even know who they represent. Someone above posted a poll from dailykos which at this time includes 195 votes.
The poll question is: "Should progressives let Republicans win elections and destroy the country?" and 53 people voted other than "no". And this statistic is being used to trash the Left. Really? 53 people and we are panicked and there is no reason to believe they are Lefties. They could be Conservatives for all we know.

It's quite interesting that you have a thread where posters (apparently non-Lefties) rank on the Left and then you say, "GOTV 2014 and Beyond!"

In my experience you don't have to worry about the crazy Left voting, they want change, they are not happy with the status quo, you need to worry about those Democrats that are comfortable with the status quo and think "why vote."

Trashing Democrats isn't conducive to GOTV.