It would be nice if the far left, for once, did some introspection.

[DanTex]

206. Not all my focus and vitriol, just some of it.

Sure, maybe in 2016 the far left didn't have a decisive impact, it's hard to know for sure. But in 2000 it certainly did. So that makes, let's say, 1.5 presidential elections thrown to the GOP in 16 years. I'd say that's pretty consequential.

And I have no idea how anyone could construe this as an attack on people who support universal healthcare, family leave, and immigration. I support all those things, as do most Democrats, including Hillary Clinton. I'm not attacking the policy beliefs of, say, the Green Party, I'm attacking their strategy. Which, for close to two decades, has been to falsely draw equivalences between the Democrats and Republicans, and do everything in their power to help Republicans win elections with their third party spoiler campaigns.

I hope we can agree that this is a very stupid strategy.

Contrast that with someone like MLK. Sure, his ideas might have been considered "far left" in his time (although he still got criticism from people like Malcolm X for being too compromising). But the enormous difference is that MLK was actually effective, wheras today's far left is hopelessly ineffective at everything except for electing Republicans. MLK had his disagreements with LBJ, but he still managed to work with him on Civil Rights issues.

It would be a truly great thing if today's had a visionary leader like MLK, who could convince them to stop helping Republicans get elected, and instead pursue activism in a way that had some hope of ever accomplishing something good. In fact, that's the point of my OP. The far left needs to look in the mirror and understand that what they have been doing for the last 20 years is worse than ineffective, it actually contributes to the opposite of all the goals they claim to stand for. They need to take a page out of MLK's book, rather than harping on false equivalencies and intentionally running spoiler campaigns.