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In reply to the discussion: You might be a ratfucker if you attack party brothers/sisters on the eve of an election [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)Do you actually not see your own self-contradiction there? You even changed my quote. You have it right in the box, then you cut off the "conservative" part down below in order to ignore the context.
You think "Democrats" are the problem, too. You just said the "activist left" is hurting the vote.
What party do you think they're in?
So, you equate liberal Dem views with undermining the party and discouraging turnout, but conservative views with loyalty and support?
You understand that only works if you accept the premise that the liberals are wrong and the conservatives are right?
Imagine for a second the people you disagree with -- "the activist left" -- as you call them, are not wrong. Difficult, I know, but suspend disbelief for a moment. In that case, the party needs go to the left in order to succeed, which would mean pointing that out helps, and undermining THAT depresses turnout and loses elections.
Notice though, that people with that point of view aren't running around the site declaring the Dems they disagree with to be ratfuckers ruining the election.
And by the way, what portion of the youth vote do you think the Democratic Party has without the "activist left?" Lot of third-way college kids out there, do you think? Republican Lite voters, starving for a corporate-friendly party just slightly more empathetic than Republicans and the Tea Party?
C'mon.