We're about to transition into General Election mode soon, or as I like to call it:

[MrScorpio]

7. Welcome to the Two-Party system, my friend, time to pick a side.

Are Democrats perfect? Of course, they aren't... But under our current system, sitting on one's duff and agonizing over the fact that a Democratic candidate doesn't meet some ideological purity test is tantamount to political suicide.

Am I supposed to be completely happy with any Democratic candidate that I'm supporting by default? Of course, not, because I'm an adult and I can recognize that I'm not entitled to have everything go my way, in spite of the fact that my own political compass pegs me as someone who's to the left of Mahatma Gandhi.



I love my country, but the fact is that most of our policies suck, even when those policies are endorsed by Democrats. In spite of that, they tend to suck at more exponentially harmful levels when imposed by Republicans, much of that intentionally.

There are two possible solutions for this dilemma that we far lefties find ourselves in, either we can change the Democratic Party from within, or we can challenge the party from outside of it. Both require a significant amount of dedicated people to achieve change. It's a numbers game. So, either you recognize who your opponent is, work to beat the living shit out of that opponent and make changes while you're in a position to, or you get left behind and whine about it.

Now, I'm not saying that achieving the goal of pushing Democratic politics back to the left is impossible... I actually think that it can be done, if the people who are trying to do that actually know what they're doing. Sometimes you have to fail before you succeed. This internal struggle is not over by a long shot.

However, you don't win over winger GOPers by being nice to them. They consider that as weakness and will do everything that they can to exploit it against you. Not to mention the fact that their goals, especially the particularly Dominionist and white supremacist ones, have never been the same as ours. We are in an ideological struggle here. These are not nice people, they're pious, judgmental assholes with a self-destructive God complex and the best thing to do is to diminish their ability to cause general harm.